PC Peripherals Brother L2541-DW wifi printer regular issues

raksrules

raksrules

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I have a brother L2541-DW printer which also has wifi functionality. Usually the printer works well and we print stuff over wifi all the time. But many a times out of nowhere, it will stop printing. As in, when sending a document over wifi to print, the print would keep staying In "sleep" or "deep sleep" mode.
There is no proper fix for this and it is all trial and error. I usually factory reset the machine and then connect back to my home wifi and hope it works. If it doesn't, I reset settings, reset machine, basically reset whatever i can.
There is no guarantee this will fix the issue. Sometimes it does, other times I have to keep trying.

When this happens, whenever i give a document to print, it will show "printer is busy" message. I don't think it is network issue as even when I use wifi direct and connect to printer directly from phone and still it won't print.

Is anyone else having similar issue and is there a sure shot way to fix this?
 
No idea, never faced the problem. Then i tend to do 100x more scanning than printing with this printer. For the odd job now and then its always 'just worked'
raksrules said:
But many a times out of nowhere, it will stop printing. As in, when sending a document over wifi to print, the print would keep staying In "sleep" or "deep sleep" mode.
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I have a feeling this is a networking issue as in printer has a dynamic IP address which changed and your client cannot locate it. So the client pinging the last known address fails to wake up the printer.

There was some utility I downloaded a while back from brother's website that fixes this problem. Just cannot remember what it is called right now.
 
blr_p said:
No idea, never faced the problem. Then i tend to do 100x more scanning than printing with this printer. For the odd job now and then its always 'just worked'

I have a feeling this is a networking issue as in printer has a dynamic IP address which changed and your client cannot locate it. So the client pinging the last known address fails to wake up the printer.

There was some utility I downloaded a while back from brother's website that fixes this problem. Just cannot remember what it is called right now.
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If you find it let me know. Also, do you think that if I take printer's mac and feed in my router and assign a static ip in my subnet (like say 192.168.29.20), it may probably fix this?
 
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