I’ve never had issues with networking or drivers with my Brother printer. I don’t have any Apple devices, but on Windows and Linux I just use the drivers that come with the OS.
I’ve not had a Brother printer so, can’t say from experience. My Epson Ecotank needed a driver to work. Setting it up on an RPi 3B with a CUPS server took care of it.
Why do that when you could just connect it to the LAN and put it on a separate VLAN?
Because the built-in networking stack on printers is garbage and having to install drivers on every client sucks.
I’ve never had issues with networking or drivers with my Brother printer. I don’t have any Apple devices, but on Windows and Linux I just use the drivers that come with the OS.
I’ve not had a Brother printer so, can’t say from experience. My Epson Ecotank needed a driver to work. Setting it up on an RPi 3B with a CUPS server took care of it.