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Real-time, remote management

Brother’s business devices have a Remote Panel solution that enables your IT department or IT service provider to remotely troubleshoot print device issues. The control panel of the printing device can be operated remotely from the comfort of your IT providers desktop PC.

Remote Panel operates in real-time, offering a complete interactive interface to your printing device. Your IT provider can access the full functionality of your printer, including maintenance mode to quickly diagnose and resolve any issues and enable settings to be changed as if they were physically standing at the printer.

How can Remote Panel benefit you?

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Save time

Quickly and easily resolve any printer issues without the need of waiting for an engineer to arrive at the office.

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Centralised support

Simplify your IT support by having everything under one roof.

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Secure

Your printing device data is shared through a secure communication channel, ensuring your information is encrypted.

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Frequently asked questions

Remote Panel provides a time and cost-effective way of understanding service and diagnostic requirements, using Web Based Management.

If you are unsure of the qualifying criteria or compatibility we recommend that you contact your Channel partner or Brother office to get started.

Where Brother is your existing or preferred print option, Remote Panel provides businesses with the ability to streamline diagnostic to reduce machine downtime. This solution can also be used for training and demonstration purposes.

Remote Panel will only work with compatible devices activated with this feature. A licence key is required to activate Brother Services which is available for the following devices:

A3 ink-jet printers:
MFC-J5945DW, MFC-J5955DW, MFC-J6945DW, MFC-J6947DW, MFC-J6955DW and MFC-J6957DW.

Colour laser printers and MFPs:
DCP-L8410CDW, HL-L9430CDN, HL-L9470CDN, MFC-L8690CDW, MFC-L8900CDW, MFC-L9570CDW, MFC-L9570CDWT, MFC-L9630CDN and MFC-L9670CDN.

Mono laser printers: 
DCP-L5500DN, DCP-L6600DW, MFC-L5700DN, MFC-L6800DW, MFC-L6800DWT, MFC-L6900DW and MFC-L6900DWT.

To simplify usage of Remote Panel a remote desktop access solution is required.

Yes. The virtual representation of a machine’s LCD touchscreen is controlled virtually in a web browser from a remote location using encrypted SSL communication once authentication by the user has been given directly from the devices physical control panel.

Once acceptance of Remote Panel is given by the user an IT technician can then access all the LCD touchscreen and panel button features along with maintenance modes.

Our free to download Brother Software License Management Tool is the best way to activate the features of any purchased services or solutions. To activate the Remote Panel solution, send a valid licence file to the target machine. You'll find more information here. 

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