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I have a Brother MFC 6490CW printer. I have been using it wireless for the past 6 months. When i had a problem with the auto tray select, i reloaded the printer and it constantly goes back to OFFLINE. The only way to fix is to reload the printer. I have Windows 7 PRO. Any ideas?

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If you are setting up a wireless printer in Windows 7 then there may be different issues that can appear while installation. If the status of your printer is offline then you have to reinstall the drivers of printer on Windows 7-based system.

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