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I can't connect iOS to Brother printer
Hi all, I’m desperately trying to connect my iOS device to my Brother MFC-J625W printer. There is already a Windows laptop connected with a USB cable and by wifi to the printer and a C7000 Night...
Since using the Brother app you can print, it would appear that, at least to me and maybe another member here, this is really a Brother problem? I Googles "Brother MFC-J625W cannot see my router" and this seems to be a similar problem on that model and ones like it. Check this out and look at some of the suggested pages... I suspect this is an Apple or Brother problem, not a Router one. It isn't a 'new' printer either, and the problem could be more Apple's support than Brothers?
All a little but vague.
In general, these kind of printers (or other IoT) can be talked to direct, this can be used for direct printing or to configure the device to connect it to a wireless infrastructure/router.
Once the WiFi on the printer is associated with the router WIFi, it will pick up a network config by DHCP, and show up as an attached device. With the IP address - permitting it's not a WiFi blocking wireless clients from communicating direct - it should be reachable by the IP address from a browser. If it's not, worth to use an information print-out of the current config, or check the LCD menu system if any.
At this point, again permitting the WiFi AP/router does no ugly things, the device should become discoverable by the mobile printing Apps, probably by WSD from Windows, or by Bonjour from a Mac as printer. Here again, it requires that say "basics" like Multicast, or IP broadcast for custom discovery systems, are correctly handled on the router (being on the same radio interface, or being from/to all other radio and wired LAN interfaces. The "connection" is done logically over the network, it's not a connection from the mobile device to the printer.
To make the confusion complete, some printers continue to broadcast their own wireless network (complementing the existing established WiFi network connection), being as yet another wireless AP, or permitting kind of a WiFi direct connection.
This makes it a little bit difficult to understand where people are stuck, what does work, or what does not.