How To Change Printer On Brother Status Monitor

"Offline" appears on the Condition Monitor.

Cheque if y'all tin can print to the printer from your computer.

> If you cannot impress, click here.
> If you tin print, click here.

If you cannot print from your computer...

If you lot cannot print, check the solution applicative to your case.

If you lot use the Blood brother car via USB connection, click here to see information to resolve the issue of beingness unable to print via USB.
If you employ the Brother machine via network connection.
(For wired networks)
> Click here to see how to resolve cannot print using my Brother motorcar on a wired network (Windows/macOS).
(For wireless networks)
> Click hither to run across how to resolve cannot print using my Brother motorcar on a wireless network (Windows).
> Click here to run into how to resolve cannot print using my Brother machine on a wireless network (Mac).

If you can print from your computer...

Check the solution applicative to your instance.

(Windows)
(Mac)

(Windows)

Footstep A: Verify the Status Monitor is displaying or monitoring the correct Brother motorcar.

The Condition Monitor cannot display the correct information if the proper driver is not configured in the Device to Monitor or Device to Display setting of the Status Monitor. Locate the proper printer commuter and verify the device settings of the Status Monitor by doing the following steps beneath.

Stride I: Locate the proper printer driver.

If you accept inverse the USB port of your computer connected to the Brother machine, or you accept installed the printer driver multiple times, the icons with the same printer proper noun might be created. In this state of affairs, some printer drivers are working, others may non be working. To print documents, select the printer commuter which is working.

Place the cursor on the printer icon for a while, the status of the printer driver volition popular upwardly.

If the status is Fix, it ways the printer driver is working. Select this printer driver when press documents.
If you always want to print from this printer, correct click on the icon of the car and select ready as default printer. And and then you volition see the check marker on the machine. When you print adjacent time, this printer driver will exist selected automatically.

Step Two: Verify the "Device to Monitor" setting.

Right click the Status Monitor on the chore tray, and so select Status Monitor Settings => Device to Monitor.
The installed Blood brother machine'south drivers will exist listed. If you multiple Brother Machines or installed the driver multiple times, the multiple drivers will be listed.
Check the drivers you are using, and uncheck the drivers institute not existence used in Footstep A-I.
Click OK. Yous will get immediate notification of errors such equally paper empty, paper jam or ink empty.

If you checked 1 driver only in Step two, go to STEP B.

If you lot checked multiple drivers in Step 2 to monitor more than than i Brother Machine, you can select which auto'due south status is displayed at times other than when errors occur. Go to Step III.

Stride 3: Verify the "Device to Brandish" setting.

Right click the Condition Monitor on the task tray, and then select Condition Monitor Settings => Device to Brandish.
Select the driver of the machine of which yous want to brandish the status (such as Ready, Offline) at times other than when errors occur.
Click OK. Make sure the auto selected in Step 2 is turned on, and and then go to Step B.

Footstep B: Verify the status displayed on the Status Monitor.

Check the condition displayed on the Status Monitor.

If Offline is still displayed, restart the Status Monitor by following the steps below and cheque the condition once more.

If y'all use the Brother machine via network connectedness, go to STEP C.
If you lot use the Blood brother auto via USB connectedness, go to Step D.

Pace C: Verify the security software (Network users only)

If you use the Brother machine via network connexion, the security software may cause the Condition Monitor display wrong status of the Brother automobile.

Verify the security software is NOT rejecting the access to the Status Monitor. Below are names used to refer to the Status Monitor on the security software.

BrMfimon.exe
Brother Condition Monitor (Network)
Brother Status Monitor Application
BrStMonW.exe

For instructions on how to configure the security software, see the user'due south guide for your security software or contact the security software manufacturer.

If Offline is however displayed, go to STEP D.

STEP D: Re-install the Status Monitor

The Status Monitor application program may accept the bug.

Download the Full Driver & Software Package, which contains the Status Monitor, from the Downloads section and re-install it.

> Click hither to see how to download the Full Driver & Software Package from the Downloads section.

(Mac)

The Status Monitor application plan may have the problems.

Download the Full Software Package, which contains the Status Monitor, from the Downloads section and re-install it.

> Click here to see how to download the Total Software Parcel from the Downloads section.

Annotation: If Full Software Bundle is not available for your models, select Printer Commuter or CUPS Printer Driver, which contains the Status Monitor.

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