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Brother MFC-J870dw Driver

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Brother MFC-J870dw is all-in-one wireless printer. Brother MFCJ870dw Driver This is a good choice for your home and small office to medium size business. This brother all-in-one printer offer to you print, scans, copy and fax in this single device.

It has a touch screen color LCD display (2.7 inches) with touch panel for interactive menu navigation is also available for your use. Touch panel only shows the keys you need. Its printing speed is very good comparing with other printers. It can print up to 33 (PPM) black & white and 27 (PPM) color pages in a minute. There’s a fax machine, direct printing and scanning from its USB port and memory card reader, wired and wireless networking and the ability to print from a Smartphone or tablet using NFC. Maximum print resolution of this printer is Up to 6000 x 1200 dpi.

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Brother MFC-J870DW Driver & Software DownloadBrother MFC-J870DW Driver Download LinkBrother MFC-J870DW Printer SpecificationMethod 1 : To Install Brother MFC-J870dw Drivers.Install Brother MFC-J870dw Printer with help of CD/DVD (Automatic Wizard)Follow the steps to install Brother MFC-J870dw printer with CD/DVD Drive.Method 2 : To Install Brother MFC-J870dw Drivers.Install Brother MFC-J870dw Printer with help of CD/DVD (Automatic Wizard)Follow the steps to install Brother MFC-J870dw printer with Setup File.Method 3 : To Install Brother MFC-J870dw Drivers.Install Brother MFC-J870dw Printer manually with help of windows inbuilt feature “Add a Printer”Follow the steps to install Brother MFC-J870dw printer Manually.FAQs

This is user friendly and easy to use printer. Anyone can easily setup and operate this Brother MFC-J870W printer. To download driver for this printer, you need only an internet connection. This printer driver download links are available for win xp, vista, 7 and win 8.

Brother MFC-J870DW Driver & Software Download

For windows xp, windows vista, windows 7, windows 8, Windows 10, Server 32 – 64 Bit, Linux and for Mac Os.

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Update: Added windows 8.1, Windows 10, Linux and Mac drivers above.

Brother MFC-J870DW Printer Specification

  • Manufactured By: Brother
  • Model Number: Brother MFC-J870DW
  • Supported OS: Windows xp, vista, 7, 8
  • Driver Type: Driver & Software Package
  • Link Type: Direct
  • USB Port: Yes
  • Scan Feature: No
  • Wireless (WiFi)Feature: Yes

Printer also known as:

  • Brother MFC-J870DW Printer
  • Brother MFC-J870DW Wireless printer
  • All-in-one Brother MFC-J870DW printer
  • Brother Wireless MFC-J870DW Printer
  • Brother multifunctional MFC-J870DW printer
  • Brother MFC-J870DW
  • Driver download Brother MFC-J870DW

Method 1 : To Install Brother MFC-J870dw Drivers.

Install Brother MFC-J870dw Printer with help of CD/DVD (Automatic Wizard)

Method 1 Requirements:

  1. Need one CD/DVD Drive installed on your computer.
  2. Need a Software/Driver CD Disk of Brother MFC-J870dw, which came with the printer.
  3. Need a USB cable, which will connect your printer to computer. It came with the printer.

Follow the steps to install Brother MFC-J870dw printer with CD/DVD Drive.

  1. Turn it on your computer, which you need to install Brother MFC-J870dw printer on it.
  2. Turn it on Brother MFC-J870dw printer as well.
  3. Keep unplug Brother MFC-J870dw printer USB cable (Do not plug it until prompts).
  4. Insert Brother MFC-J870dw CD disk into the CD/DVD drive on your computer, and run the setup wizard of CD, and follow their instructions to install it.
  5. Now connect the Brother MFC-J870dw printer USB cable to computer, when installer wizard asks (Note: Do not plug before asking). Wizard will analyzing when you connect it. After recognized the printer, it will automatically go to further steps. Note: Wait until it’s finished detection of printer.
  6. Follow the wizard instructions to finish it.
  7. After finished you will get installed your Brother MFC-J870dw Printer ready to use.

Method 2 : To Install Brother MFC-J870dw Drivers.

Install Brother MFC-J870dw Printer with help of CD/DVD (Automatic Wizard)

Method 2 Requirements:

  1. Need a Software/Driver Setup file of Brother MFC-J870dw. You can download it from above links, according to your Operating System.
  2. Need a USB cable, which will connect your printer to computer. It came with the printer.

Follow the steps to install Brother MFC-J870dw printer with Setup File.

  1. Turn it on your computer, which you need to install Brother MFC-J870dw printer on it.
  2. Turn it on Brother MFC-J870dw printer as well.
  3. Keep unplug Brother MFC-J870dw printer USB cable (Do not plug it until prompts).
  4. Download Brother MFC-J870dw drivers setup file from above links then run that downloaded file and follow their instructions to install it.
  5. Now connect the Brother MFC-J870dw printer USB cable to computer, when installer wizard asks (Note: Do not plug before asking). Wizard will analyzing when you connect it. After recognized the printer, it will automatically go to further steps. Note: Wait until it’s finished detection of printer.
  6. Follow the wizard instructions to finish it.
  7. After finished, you’ll get installed your Brother MFC-J870dw Printer ready to use.

Method 3 : To Install Brother MFC-J870dw Drivers.

Install Brother MFC-J870dw Printer manually with help of windows inbuilt feature “Add a Printer”

Method 3 Requirements:

  1. Need a Software/Driver Setup file of Brother MFC-J870dw. You can download it from above links, according to your Operating System.
  2. Need a USB cable, which will connect your printer to computer. It came with the printer.

Follow the steps to install Brother MFC-J870dw printer Manually.

  1. Turn it on your computer, which you need to install Brother MFC-J870dw printer on it.
  2. Turn it on Brother MFC-J870dw printer as well.
  3. Connect Brother MFC-J870dw printer USB cable from Printer to computer.
  4. Extract Brother MFC-J870dw setup file, and their extracted location (the default location is TEMP folder)
  5. Click on Start button –> then click on Control Panel –> then click on View Devices & Printer (for Windows 7, vista users).
    Note: For Xp Users Click on Fax & Printers.
  6. Click on Add a Printer.
  7. When it prompts for drivers location, then give it the path, where have extracted the setup file.
  8. Follow the wizard instructions to finish it.
  9. After finished, you’ll get installed your Brother MFC-J870dw Printer ready to use.

FAQs

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Q: Brothers J870DW printer leaving stripes on pictures

A: Actually, when the Brothers J870DW printer's printhead nozzle is clogged the printed sample looks like this.


After the printhead nozzle is cleaned, the horizontal lines are gone. It looks like this.

Don't worry, this issue can be fixed by yourself, please follow the following steps.
 

Solution:

To fix this issue (stripes on pictures), you just need to perform the cleaning process of your Brothers J870DW printer. We are giving you a cleaning instruction where you can perform the step by step process. We are giving you its user manual where they have mentioned the step by step process how you can perform the cleaning process and can fix this lining issue.

Please look at page number 83 of this Brother J870DW user guide pdf file. Click here to download Brother J870DW user manual download.

Brother_J870DW_user_guide_pdf

Q: Need a WIA driver for scanning with a Brother mfc-j870dw

A: Here are the printer and scanner Driver separately: https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf005339/Y14H_C2-hostm-B3.EXE

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Printer Driver Installation Tips

  • - Always run the printer setup from the CD that came with the printer or downloaded from the official website in order to avoid potential errors and incompatibility issues.
  • - Never plug the printer USB cable to computer during the installation process unless prompted by the installer.
  • - Use only the USB cable that came with the printer
  • - Remove all other previous versions of printer drivers to avoid driver conflicts.
  • - Carefully install the printer cartridges first and then proceed with adding paper to the tray.
  • - Always restart your computer for the driver installation process to be fully completed.

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