Brother HL-L3230CDW not detected over USB driver installation fails  

Brother HL-L3230CDW not detected over USB driver installation fails

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing a weird problem with my Brother HL-L3230CDW printer (laser) and I'm kindly asking if anyone of you has come across something like this.

When the printer uses power only, it behaves perfectly fine. However, as soon as I plug it directly to my computer using USB, it seems that Windows does not recognize it correctly. Most of the time, it either appears as an unknown device or even during the driver installation, it cannot be found.

Besides trying to have an idea about the nature of the problem, I have done these things:

Changed USB ports (USB 2.0 and USB 3.0)

Got a different USB cable

Rebooted both the printer and the PC

Uninstalled old printer drivers and then reinstalled them

However, the Brother driver installer is stuck on "No machine found" and is unable to finish the installation.

I am sharing here the link of the driver package which I have downloaded from the official Brother support site:

https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=hll3230cdw_us_eu_as

Also a driver package from a different source, which I was thinking of using:

https://printerdrivers.com/brother-hl-l3230cdw-driver/

But the end result is exactly the same, no printer detected during USB setup.

Currently, Windows appears to identify something (sometimes it says "USB composite device"), but definitely not as a printer.

Does anybody else here have a similar experience with Brother printers failing USB detection during driver setup? Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!