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Whether you're trying to go paperless or not, there are times when nothing beats a hardcopy of a letter, essay, application, or document. With the remarkable Brother MFC L2900DW Wireless Monochrome Laser Printer, you'll be up and running in no time, printing via Wi-Fi from a Mac, Windows PC, even Linux system. It also offers scanning, copying, and you can send and received FAXs too, as desired. Tech expert Dave Taylor goes through the entire unpackaging, setup and configuration process, ending with a demo wireless print from a MacBook computer.
Check it out at: https://www.brother-usa.com/products/mfcl2900dw
or on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4fZx2eE
Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
0:00 Introduction
2:16 Tape Removal & Prep
4:18 Adding Paper
6:52 Plugging the Printer Into Power
7:55 Inserting the Toner Cartridge
9:35 Connecting to Wi-Fi
12:00 Panel Tour @firstimpressionprintmarket6839& First Printout
13:52 Adding Printer to MacOS
15:13 Final Thoughts
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a new printer let's set it up and see
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how it
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[Music]
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works Dave Taylor here and the reality
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is is that sometimes I need hard copies
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of things I also need to make copies and
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I often scan things and all of that can
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be done along with faxes with this
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printer this is the Brother MFC 2900 DW
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Wireless monochrome laser printer and I
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didn't want to show you me pulling it
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out of the box cuz it's a little bit of
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work but this is exactly what you get
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when you pull everything out of the box
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you get a cord for a phone connection if
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you're going to use fax you get let's
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see what's here a power cord and it is a
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three prong so you will need a grounded
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Outlet that's convenient there is a
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printer cartridge that it includes we'll
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open that in a minute and there's a lot
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of paperwork starting with an offer for
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a trial run of what they call their
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refresh easy print subscription and this
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basically is where you predict how much
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you'll be Printing and then it'll
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automatically send you a new toner
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cartridge like 30 to 45 days before
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you're going to run out so that you
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never end up where you have a really
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important document to print and the inks
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run out and you don't have a cartridge
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so this solves that there's that and
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let's see um register get a free 6-month
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extended
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warranty product safety guide product
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safety guide in
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espanol um more small print another
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refresh promo in espanol limited
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warranty a reference
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sheet
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uh installation guide rapid and the one
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we want the actual quick setup guide
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in engl and it is pretty easy there are
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they say seven steps so we're going to
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go through them now to start out we need
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to unpack the machine and check the
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components so the machine itself looks
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good and then we have to take all the
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tape off there's a lot of tape so take
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your time and make sure you get every
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single piece so the nice thing is is
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that printer companies actually fold
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back the very end of the tape making it
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pretty darn easy to remove it so let's
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see there's some tape over
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here tape over
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here I'll have to spin that around in a
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minute to see what's going on so there's
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all this tape but there's more on the
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front that you can see and I can't so
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I'm going to spin it around and let's
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see what we got here we got this
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piece and this piece in the middle
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which H well we'll get to that in a
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second and then this piece and then I
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think that'll let us open the front
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which is probably yeah so then this now
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comes off easily enough and this is
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where we're going to put that toner
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cartridge so it looks like what else do
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we have here we have in the scan bed a
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piece of plastic so lots of things to
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make sure this survives its Journey saf
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L and looks like there's nothing on that
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side which is good one of the cool
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things about this printer is it has a
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3.5 in color touchcreen so not only does
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it have all these great capabilities but
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it makes it really easy for you to work
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with it even right there at the printer
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and it is cloud friendly so you can get
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this onto your internet and you can
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actually scan to for example Dropbox or
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you can print from a folder that you
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already have up on something like one
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drive so let me give you some specs as
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we go through let's see that was step
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one and step two is to load paper so
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we'll do that and this is let's move
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this stuff out of the
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way this is the essential thing you
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always want to do and this the bottom
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tray and when you first look at it
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you're like uh that's pretty small but
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this stretches out and it stretches out
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and then I just happen to have some 8
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1/2 by 11 recycled paper so I'll put
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this in and then the trick is to then
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adjust this so that it's nice and snug
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that looks good I'll put it back
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in let's see so there's step two done
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now this printer can print up to 36
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pages per minutes and it can duplex
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print or scan or copy which means it can
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print or scan or copy on both sides it's
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really nice and the printing is up to
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1200 DPI so it's a really tight dense
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print with a lot of information per unit
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area so the result is it comes out
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really high quality we'll see um the fax
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I haven't sent or received a fax in
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years but if you are going to use it for
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the fact you do have the phone line that
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you need and it can actually use up to
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500 pages in memory so you can just have
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this receiving faxes and then you could
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go through it on here or something or
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via the app I think and then print out
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the ones that you actually want you can
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scan to email scan directly to your
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computer scan to the
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cloud I mean they really these companies
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have so much time that and there's so
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much evolution in printers that this
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really does just about everything you
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could possibly imagine you can plug in
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directly to ethernet you can also do it
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on WiFi at 2.4 or 5 GHz you should use 5
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GHz if you have that option because it
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is faster and then there's mobile
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printing so we'll get there I'm going to
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use my phone and they have something
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called the brother mobile Connect app
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and there's a 50-page document feeder
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it's energy STAR certified it's an epat
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silver so it uses incredibly little
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power when you're not using it so you
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just leave it on the whole time and then
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it actually has double the wakeup speed
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of its previous generations so that
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means that if you just have it sitting
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there then when you do send a print out
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it only takes a couple of seconds for it
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to wake up and start printing and that's
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really great okay so that was step two
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step three is power cord well let's see
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that's going to be in the back so I'm
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going to spin this back
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around and where are we in the back okay
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here's our power cord and I just happen
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to have an extension cord to make us be
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able to do this so let's get a little
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twisty off and
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then and this is a standard three-prong
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wire so that's nice if you ever lose the
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power cord cuz maybe you're moving or
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something not a crisis so there's step
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three done I'm going to actually move
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all this
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paperwork out of the way just one less
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thing to hassle with so now let's see so
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load paper connect to power cord select
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your language so I think now we're
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working on the little LCD screen I will
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turn it
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on
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[Music]
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and very nice you know what I realized
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is that we were supposed to already put
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the toner cartridge in that was was all
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part of Step One You're supposed to
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remove all the tape then put this in now
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you cannot rip these with your hands so
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I have scissors and toner cartridges can
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be messy so I'm counting on brother to
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have designed this well so that's not an
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issue we'll see in just about 5 seconds
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so here's the toner
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cartridge and you always want to have a
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toner cartridge that matches the exact
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model of your printer cuz that's the
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only one that's going to fit and then we
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just simply take all of this orange
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stuff off this is one big very complex
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shaped piece of plastic let's see should
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all come off there we go so we don't
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need this and then the cartridge
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itself goes into where are we into here
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right we saw that earlier so all we have
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to do is put it
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in in the only way that it's going to
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fit which should
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be let's see what's happening
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here
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um might just be that I'm at a funny
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angle but
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let's let's
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see well maybe I'm doing it backwards
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let's try it this
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way
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aha so push it all the way in until it
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clicks close this
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and now let's go over to that screen and
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let's see what's going on I scanned the
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QR code and now I'm going to go ahead
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and grab the
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app there we go and I'm going to open
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it and I'm going to agree to all the
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policies and allow
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this and we'll get to there and allow
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that and now we need to enter the model
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number which is mfcl 2900
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MFC
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L
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29
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oops try it again
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MF wow they have a lot of darn printers
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let's try
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2900
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DW okay so now I want to get back here
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let's get this screen woken up press and
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hold the Wi-Fi button so that's what I'm
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going to
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do okay so I have done
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that and then it should prompt me to
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join the printer as a Wi-Fi
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network there we go so I'll join that
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and then the app will be able to access
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the printer
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well looks like we're having some
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problems so there's a way you can do it
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manually instead so I'm going to put my
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phone aside we're going to cancel this
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we're going to go into
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Wi-Fi and let's try find Wi-Fi network
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switch network interface to wireless
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yes and now it's going to search to see
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what networks are in my
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area and I'll go with that one then it
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will prompt me to enter the password
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which is going to
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be a little bit tedious so let me just
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do this and I'll come right back and now
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we're connecting to my wireless
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network connected
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excellent all right
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so now we should be
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online
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and able to proceed and notice it says
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change admin password that is an
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excellent idea I will do that as soon as
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I'm done with this video but for now
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let's try let's see what we have here so
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we have copies we have
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print let's go into
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Diagnostics
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and I'm sure there is a way to get to a
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test print so let's try General
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setup
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H all right well we'll use this that get
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you back to the previous one so we can
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do
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that printer Network print
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reports let's try printer settings and
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we're going to start printing so before
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I do that let me switch the camera back
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all right well we're at print reports
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printer settings let's do this and I'm
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going to say
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yes and
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and well we're getting sound that's a
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very positive
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sign I hear paper
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loading four pages wow that's a lot of
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printer settings but as you can see it
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is a crystal clear printout and it is
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fast and easy to work with and all four
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of these Pages printed in what about 5
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seconds so very nice I will recycle the
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these later oops we don't want to put
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them in the document feeder I'll just
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put them over here now as one final step
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let's see if I can actually get this to
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show up as a printer on the network with
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my Mac and that should be a no-brainer
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so again let me spin around and show you
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what's on my screen this is pretty
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straightforward just go in Mac settings
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and look for printers and scanners and I
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will add a printer
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and let me move this over it's right
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there that this new printer is right
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there available to go and it notices and
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identifies the necessary driver so I can
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add
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it picture is not great but that's
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something I could fix if I want in fact
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look at that it actually changed the
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picture and now it's giving me the
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ability to add it as a printer and
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output fax device I'm not going to do
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that cuz as I said I don't really use
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faxes very much so now let's give it a
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quick test by I think I can actually
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print
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out this looks likely this is actually
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the page for this printer on the brother
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website so I'm going to choose print but
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we're only going to do the first page
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which is something I do frequently so
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it's one to one and we want to make sure
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it's not the HP it's the Brother printer
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and let's press print all right I'm
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going to push the button
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and all completely wireless no wires no
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connection no special configuration you
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just saw everything I did and here's
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that page and it's not really great the
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way it's rendered but that's a whole
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different issue but nonetheless it all
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worked and that is fantastic so let me
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tell you just a tiny bit more about this
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printer I'm going to close this up and
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so I've already given you a bunch of
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specs and I'll tell you it's pretty
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stressful to configure this with a
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camera on but we got it all working it
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wasn't quite as smooth as we expected
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with the mobile device being able to
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connect to it wirelessly not sure what
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was going on there but luckily I know my
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network I know my network password so it
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was easy enough to enter that manually
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and then proceed from there there's
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probably some other things I should
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change including that admin password
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that's a really critical one but we got
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it up we got it running we got it
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working on a Mac just as easy to get it
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working on a PC um the tray capacity we
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already put some paper in you can put up
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to 250 sheets at a time remember you can
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print two-sided which is really great it
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is fully compatible with Windows and Mac
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and Linux machines and as I said you
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know the toner cartridges obviously
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those are important but you also can
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actually subscribe to that refresh easy
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print service if you want so that's
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everything I wanted to show you with
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this printer it was pretty darn
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straightforward and without the camera
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running I would have been less stressed
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and probably would have been able to
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work out that problem but you saw from
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Soup To Nuts me going from pulling this
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out of the box well you saw post box um
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all the way to being able to wireless
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wirelessly print from my laptop
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that is pretty sweet now I'm going to
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ask you to subscribe to my channel click
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a thumbs up if you found this of value
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and I hope you did great this is the
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brother mfcl 2900 DW Wireless monochrome
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laser printer and it is
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299.99
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currently discounted down to
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$269.99 at brother
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usa.com you can also find this exact
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same printer at amazon.com if you'd
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rather go through them it's easy
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straightforward this particular model
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the toner cartridge has 7,000 Pages it
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can print on average depending on how
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much ink you use on each page Etc but
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you should be able to pull this out of
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the box get it set up on your wireless
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network and then just run with it for
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months if not years and then when you do
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need a new toner cartridge pick up
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another one from brother because the
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original manufacturers their cartridges
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are more expensive but they're
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guaranteed to work perfectly with your
18:08
printer so it's everything I got I think
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I'm going to go back and do some more
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printing so I'll have to catch you in my
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next video
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[Music]
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