Brother iPrint&Scan

Just upgraded to latest Mac mini macOS 15.1.x to find my older Brother printer is not supported (and has not been supported since macOS 10.15.x). This is called “planned obsolescence” and the means of Brother to get you to buy their latest product. As a note, the Generic PCL Laser Printer macOS installs has issue with duplex printing.

This software is crummy. Brother must not have a brotherly interest in their customers if this is the best they can do. I would like to be able to scan several pieces of paper and end up with the same number of scanned image files instead of one PDF with all of the images entered on a separate page of that document. There is no way to do that or if there is there is nothing on the internet that tells me how.

I can print/scan fine directly from the MacOS print utility and from the phone app, but desktop Brother app randomly won’t recognize the machine exists anymore. Horrible app.

I installed the Brother iPrint & Scan utility on my Mac laptop to try to fix the problem that I am unable to wake up my Brother printer from sleep through printing using AirPrint -- and yet Brother provides no printer drivers for my Mac computers, so you are stuck using only AirPrint. The good news about this utility is that it did in fact print my document and wake up the printer from sleep to do it. The bad news is that you can only print a "PDF" or a "photo" from here (no Word docs or other docs!), and you have to open the file in the app itself -- it is not an add-on that you can use to print from other programs (e.g., Adobe, Word, internet browsers, etc.). So I guess if I ever have to print a single PDF that is saved on the hard drive of my machine, I can use this. For any other thing that I want to print, in any other location, I cannot.

horrible for wifi priniting! Doesnt work form the mac unless i attach tpo printer. Works fine form phone however. I also have ran into issues with documents taking for-ev-er when printing a pdf. Worfd doc flies through like nobodys business. This printer or app is horrible and hard to troubleshoot.

The app on my mac does not connect to the scanner anymore on my network. I am able to connect to it fine from my iPhone, so the scanner is definitely on the network. Tried reinstalling the app and drivers with no luck.

I'm running the latest version (12.1.0), and the app has started to crash in the middle of scans for no apparent reason. Nothing else has changed — same Mac, same Brother scanner (ADS-3600W). The software was already not that great as far as features/functionality (see the average rating), but now it crashes, causing you to have to rescan your last document. This is a huge hassle, especially if your document gets out of order in the output tray, and you have to figure out how to rearrange everything properly once again. I'm getting really sick of this scanner and software...

no es nada práctica cargar papel, ni la coenctividad, solo peudes imprimir a través de la aplicación que solo acepta pdfs y jpg. Eviten esta marca.

First and last brother printer I will ever buy. Horrible. Bought this printer less than two months ago and the app just stopped working. The app will not show the printer online. We (two extremely tech savvy individuals) have tried every!single! troubleshooting measure you can find on the web, to no avail. This is garbage. HORRIBLE!!!

This software crashes my new M4 MBP every time and forces to restart the computer completely.