Brother Print Service Plugin

Brother Industries, Ltd.

About this app

The Brother Print Service Plugin enables you to print directly from your Android devices (Android 5.0 or later), to your Brother printer through a Wi-Fi network. As this is a plugin application, you can print using the "Print" option of supported Android apps. Please see below for supported applications (as of March 2015):

- Chrome Browser
- Gmail
- Photos
- Google Sheets
- Google Slides
- Google Docs
- Google Drive

The following print options are available (compatible options will depend on the selected device):

- Copies
- Paper Size
- Color/Mono
- Orientation
- Media Type
- Quality
- Layout
- 2-sided
- Borderless

After installing this application, you must activate it in one of the following ways:
- Tap the icon displayed in the notification area immediately after installation, and enable it in the displayed screen.
- Tap "Settings" on your Android device and tap "Printing", then select "Brother Print Service Plugin". Enable it in the displayed screen.
If you are using Android 12 or later and cannot connect via Bluetooth or Wireless Direct, go to your device settings and allow the Brother Print Service Plugin app access to nearby devices.

Please visit your local Brother website for supported models.
*Please note the email address [e-mail] is for feedback only. Unfortunately we cannot reply to inquiries sent to this address.

Ratings and reviews

Like many others, this app no longer works for me. My Samsung phone used to connect easily to my printer, which definitely helped my productivity and simplified my printing tasks. Now it's can't find the printer and always says it is unavailable. It really hope this gets fixed, because it worked perfectly before and for some reason it's changed from a five-star app to a one-star one.

Printer is usually grayed out and cannot be re-added ("cannot add printer"). This has been a problem for years and brother just ignores it. They'd better fix it soon or I'll be buying laser printers from someone else. Update 2 years later: still not working. Still the same issue. I have always been a fan of these laser printers but this is unacceptable and extremely irritating.

This app works perfectly for my Android Droid Turbo phone. one thing I forgot to do at first was to turn on the Wi-Fi for my phone. If Wi-Fi is not on, then the plug-in will continue to search and never find the printer. My printer is wireless and runs through the router, so the phone has to find it wirelessly the same way. So just make sure your Wi-Fi is turned on if you have the same setup. The documents printed beautifully, exactly as they were sent to me.

What's new

Optimized for Black/Red labels
- QL-810W, QL-820NWB
Performance Improvements