Windows 10: Brother MFC-L3770 "printer driver unavailable"

Hi,


My Brother L3770 has not been working for a week, after it was previously working fine.
The printer itself is not the issue, as printing from other PCs and laptops is ok, but my main Windows 10 PC doe not allow printing.


I have uninstalled and re-installed all Brother driver and software a number of times, but the issue remains the same.

It appears that there is no printer driver anymore for this model that is recognized by Windows10, although this is a standard printer.


I spoke to Brother who probably correctly claim that the printer is fine and they also checked the driver + software on their website. I also got to chat with the MSFT Windows support team, who could not figure it out either. We ended up doing a Windows 10 re-install, but the issue is still the same.


I have read that people have had similar issues after Windows updates in the past. So I went into updates and uninstall recent ones that could still be removed, but those were probably installed already after the printing issue came up. In any event, it did not resolve the issue.


Any ideas as to what I can do?


Tx.

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