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Table of Contents Section I Windows® 1 Printing Using the Brother printer driver...2 Features ...2 Choosing the right type of paper...3 Simultaneous printing, scanning and faxing 3 Clearing data from the memory ...3 Checking the print quality ...3 Status ... ...8 Improve Pattern Printing (Windows® 2000/XP only 10 Paper Size ...10 Page Layout ...11 Orientation ...11 Copies ...12 Paper Source (MFC-5860CN only 12 Advanced tab...13 Color ...14 Scaling ...16 Watermark ...17 Device Options ...19 Support tab ...21 2 Scanning Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver 22 TWAIN compliant......
Table of Contents Section I Windows® 1 Printing Using the Brother printer driver...2 Features ...2 Choosing the right type of paper...3 Simultaneous printing, scanning and faxing 3 Clearing data from the memory ...3 Checking the print quality ...3 Status ... ...8 Improve Pattern Printing (Windows® 2000/XP only 10 Paper Size ...10 Page Layout ...11 Orientation ...11 Copies ...12 Paper Source (MFC-5860CN only 12 Advanced tab...13 Color ...14 Scaling ...16 Watermark ...17 Device Options ...19 Support tab ...21 2 Scanning Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver 22 TWAIN compliant......
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Scan to Image ...72 Scan to OCR ...72 Scan to File...73 5 Remote Setup (Not available for DCP models and MFC-240C) Remote Setup...74 6 Brother PC-FAX Software (MFC models only) PC-FAX sending ...76 Setting up user information...77 Sending setup...78 Setting up a cover page...79 Entering cover... page information...79 Address Book ...80 Speed Dial setup ...81 Brother Address Book ...82 Setting up a member in the Address ...
Scan to Image ...72 Scan to OCR ...72 Scan to File...73 5 Remote Setup (Not available for DCP models and MFC-240C) Remote Setup...74 6 Brother PC-FAX Software (MFC models only) PC-FAX sending ...76 Setting up user information...77 Sending setup...78 Setting up a cover page...79 Entering cover... page information...79 Address Book ...80 Speed Dial setup ...81 Brother Address Book ...82 Setting up a member in the Address ...
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...memory ...98 Checking the print quality ...98 Status Monitor ...99 Using the Brother Ink driver ...100 Choosing page setup options ...100 Choosing printing options ...101 Media Type...101 Quality ...102 Paper Feed (MFC-5860CN only)...103 Sending a fax (MFC models only) ...104 Drag a vCard from the Mac OS® X...Scan to E-mail ...113 Scan to Image ...114 Scan to OCR ...114 Scan to File...115 Scan to Card (Not available for MFC-240C and MFC-3360C 115 Using Presto!® PageManager® ...119 Features ...119 System requirements for Presto!® PageManager 119 Technical support ...120 10 ...
...memory ...98 Checking the print quality ...98 Status Monitor ...99 Using the Brother Ink driver ...100 Choosing page setup options ...100 Choosing printing options ...101 Media Type...101 Quality ...102 Paper Feed (MFC-5860CN only)...103 Sending a fax (MFC models only) ...104 Drag a vCard from the Mac OS® X...Scan to E-mail ...113 Scan to Image ...114 Scan to OCR ...114 Scan to File...115 Scan to Card (Not available for MFC-240C and MFC-3360C 115 Using Presto!® PageManager® ...119 Features ...119 System requirements for Presto!® PageManager 119 Technical support ...120 10 ...
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Section I Windows® I Printing 2 Scanning 22 ControlCenter3 44 Network Scanning (For models with built-in network support) 68 Remote Setup (Not available for DCP models and MFC-240C) 74 Brother PC-FAX Software (MFC models only) 76 PhotoCapture Center® (Not available for MFC-3360C) 94
Section I Windows® I Printing 2 Scanning 22 ControlCenter3 44 Network Scanning (For models with built-in network support) 68 Remote Setup (Not available for DCP models and MFC-240C) 74 Brother PC-FAX Software (MFC models only) 76 PhotoCapture Center® (Not available for MFC-3360C) 94
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.... (See Resolution in Specifications in the User's Guide.) The printer driver supports N in 1, Watermark printing, Color Enhancement technology and many features you are from the Brother Solutions Center at up to 1200 × 6000 dpi on the CD-ROM supplied with multiple PCs connected on... the rated print speeds of a particular ink color, you only have to replace the empty cartridge. Fast Printing Speed See the User's Guide for Wireless Network Standard models only. 2 Brilliant High Quality Output Printing at : http://solutions.brother.com Features 1 This machine offers many other ...
.... (See Resolution in Specifications in the User's Guide.) The printer driver supports N in 1, Watermark printing, Color Enhancement technology and many features you are from the Brother Solutions Center at up to 1200 × 6000 dpi on the CD-ROM supplied with multiple PCs connected on... the rated print speeds of a particular ink color, you only have to replace the empty cartridge. Fast Printing Speed See the User's Guide for Wireless Network Standard models only. 2 Brilliant High Quality Output Printing at : http://solutions.brother.com Features 1 This machine offers many other ...
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Monitoring the machine's status 1 Once you start up your PC, the Status Monitor icon appears on your PC-in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX on the tasktray. A green icon indicates the normal stand-by condition. A yellow icon indicates a warning. A red icon indicates an... error has occurred. You can display the status monitor on your PC. There are two locations where you to get immediate notification of one or more information about using the Status Monitor software, right-click the Status Monitor icon and choose Help. Note For more devices, allowing ...
Monitoring the machine's status 1 Once you start up your PC, the Status Monitor icon appears on your PC-in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX on the tasktray. A green icon indicates the normal stand-by condition. A yellow icon indicates a warning. A red icon indicates an... error has occurred. You can display the status monitor on your PC. There are two locations where you to get immediate notification of one or more information about using the Status Monitor software, right-click the Status Monitor icon and choose Help. Note For more devices, allowing ...
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...any time by clicking Status Monitor from your PC: Media Type/Quality (Speed) Paper Size Page Layout Color Matching/Halftone Color Enhancement Scaling Watermark Print Date & Time Quick Print Setup Accessing the printer driver settings 1 a Click File... can change the following printer settings when you print from the Start menu on Startup to clear the check mark. b Choose Brother MFC-XXXX USB Printer or Brother MFC-XXXX Printer (where XXXX is off the status monitor, follow these steps: 1 1 a Right-click the Status Monitor icon ...
...any time by clicking Status Monitor from your PC: Media Type/Quality (Speed) Paper Size Page Layout Color Matching/Halftone Color Enhancement Scaling Watermark Print Date & Time Quick Print Setup Accessing the printer driver settings 1 a Click File... can change the following printer settings when you print from the Start menu on Startup to clear the check mark. b Choose Brother MFC-XXXX USB Printer or Brother MFC-XXXX Printer (where XXXX is off the status monitor, follow these steps: 1 1 a Right-click the Status Monitor icon ...
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... The fastest print mode and the lowest amount of ink used. Media Type Plain Paper Inkjet Paper Brother Premium Glossy Photo Paper or Other Photo Paper Transparencies Color/Grayscale Color/Grayscale Color/Grayscale Color/Grayscale Color/Grayscale Print Quality Selection Fast, Fast Normal, Normal, Fine Fine, Photo Fine, Photo... Fast Normal 600 × 300 dpi. As print quality and speed are shown in bold. • For DCP-130C and MFC-240C, the Highest Print Quality selection is not available if you choose borderless printing. 7 The quality selections that are available will ...
... The fastest print mode and the lowest amount of ink used. Media Type Plain Paper Inkjet Paper Brother Premium Glossy Photo Paper or Other Photo Paper Transparencies Color/Grayscale Color/Grayscale Color/Grayscale Color/Grayscale Color/Grayscale Print Quality Selection Fast, Fast Normal, Normal, Fine Fine, Photo Fine, Photo... Fast Normal 600 × 300 dpi. As print quality and speed are shown in bold. • For DCP-130C and MFC-240C, the Highest Print Quality selection is not available if you choose borderless printing. 7 The quality selections that are available will ...
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... and settings information. Click the Support tab to display the following screen: Printing 1 1 Brother Solutions Center The Brother Solutions Center is a web site offering information about your Brother product including FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), User's Guides, driver updates and tips for using your machine.... Web Update You can check the Brother web site for automatic downloads to the Brother Solutions Center and driver update web sites. There are also links to update the printer driver on your PC....
... and settings information. Click the Support tab to display the following screen: Printing 1 1 Brother Solutions Center The Brother Solutions Center is a web site offering information about your Brother product including FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), User's Guides, driver updates and tips for using your machine.... Web Update You can check the Brother web site for automatic downloads to the Brother Solutions Center and driver update web sites. There are also links to update the printer driver on your PC....
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... you may need to configure the firewall settings to allow communication through port number 137 and 54925. Visit the Brother Solutions Center (http://solutions.brother.com) for communicating between scanners and applications. As default, the machine uses a TWAIN compliant driver when scanning documents...page 22) and a Windows® Imaging Acquisition (WIA) driver (See Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver 2 TWAIN compliant 2 The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. Windows® XP users can not only scan images directly into hundreds of other...
... you may need to configure the firewall settings to allow communication through port number 137 and 54925. Visit the Brother Solutions Center (http://solutions.brother.com) for communicating between scanners and applications. As default, the machine uses a TWAIN compliant driver when scanning documents...page 22) and a Windows® Imaging Acquisition (WIA) driver (See Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver 2 TWAIN compliant 2 The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. Windows® XP users can not only scan images directly into hundreds of other...
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... the screen. The Scanner Setup dialog box appears: 23 The Scan panel appears in this Guide are using other operating systems: Choose Brother MFC-XXXX USB or Brother MFC-XXXX LAN. (Where XXXX is your model name) d Click Scan. Scanning Accessing the Scanner 2 a Start the ScanSoft® ...for when you use ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE. b Click File, then Scan. Note • For Windows® XP: Choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or TW-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN. • For other software applications. The scanning steps may vary when using from the Scanner drop-down list.
... the screen. The Scanner Setup dialog box appears: 23 The Scan panel appears in this Guide are using other operating systems: Choose Brother MFC-XXXX USB or Brother MFC-XXXX LAN. (Where XXXX is your model name) d Click Scan. Scanning Accessing the Scanner 2 a Start the ScanSoft® ...for when you use ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE. b Click File, then Scan. Note • For Windows® XP: Choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or TW-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN. • For other software applications. The scanning steps may vary when using from the Scanner drop-down list.
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...2 a Open your machine or you can scan images directly into the PaperPort® SE viewer that Brother included with your software application to scan the document. Note The instructions for scanning in this Guide are ... The process will start. Or click the Scan button. d Click Scan. Note • Choose WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (Where XXXX is your model name). • If you are based on the left side... or TWAIN scanning. c Choose the scanner you choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX, the TWAIN driver will vary when scanning from the Scanner drop-down list.
...2 a Open your machine or you can scan images directly into the PaperPort® SE viewer that Brother included with your software application to scan the document. Note The instructions for scanning in this Guide are ... The process will start. Or click the Scan button. d Click Scan. Note • Choose WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (Where XXXX is your model name). • If you are based on the left side... or TWAIN scanning. c Choose the scanner you choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX, the TWAIN driver will vary when scanning from the Scanner drop-down list.
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If you want to scan at higher resolutions, use the Brother Scanner Utility. (See Brother Scanner Utility on page 33.) f Click the Scan button in the Scan dialog box. The machine starts scanning the document. 31 Scanning e If you want to change some advanced settings, click Adjust the quality of 1200 dpi. Click OK after you choose the settings. 2 Note By default, the scanner resolution can choose Brightness, Contrast, Resolution and Picture Type from Advanced Properties. You can be set to a maximum of the scanned picture (3).
If you want to scan at higher resolutions, use the Brother Scanner Utility. (See Brother Scanner Utility on page 33.) f Click the Scan button in the Scan dialog box. The machine starts scanning the document. 31 Scanning e If you want to change some advanced settings, click Adjust the quality of 1200 dpi. Click OK after you choose the settings. 2 Note By default, the scanner resolution can choose Brightness, Contrast, Resolution and Picture Type from Advanced Properties. You can be set to a maximum of the scanned picture (3).
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... document at a resolution of the file you are trying to scan. Click OK after you choose a setting. 2 g Click the Scan button in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX menu (where XXXX is used to change the setting. You must restart your PC for the new settings to take effect. Running the... file size may freeze as the document is scanned and you do not have enough memory and hard disk space for changing the paper size. Brother Scanner Utility 2 The Brother Scanner Utility is your file. 33
... document at a resolution of the file you are trying to scan. Click OK after you choose a setting. 2 g Click the Scan button in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX menu (where XXXX is used to change the setting. You must restart your PC for the new settings to take effect. Running the... file size may freeze as the document is scanned and you do not have enough memory and hard disk space for changing the paper size. Brother Scanner Utility 2 The Brother Scanner Utility is your file. 33
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...E-mail application as a file attachment. Scan to be addressed. 34 If you have to install the Brother MFL-Pro software suite and connect the machine to a media card. d Press Black Start or Color Start. The machine starts scanning the document, creates a file attachment, and launches your E-mail application,...on page 49.) For details about how to configure the scan settings and to E-mail. You can scan either a black and white or color document into your word processing, graphics or E-mail applications, to a folder on the control panel, you installed the MFL-Pro Suite from ...
...E-mail application as a file attachment. Scan to be addressed. 34 If you have to install the Brother MFL-Pro software suite and connect the machine to a media card. d Press Black Start or Color Start. The machine starts scanning the document, creates a file attachment, and launches your E-mail application,...on page 49.) For details about how to configure the scan settings and to E-mail. You can scan either a black and white or color document into your word processing, graphics or E-mail applications, to a folder on the control panel, you installed the MFL-Pro Suite from ...
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When you install MFL-Pro Suite, ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE for Brother is a document management application. You can use PaperPort® SE to view scanned documents. 2 Not just viewing, PaperPort® SE has a sophisticated yet easy-to-...'s Guide. For more details, see the ScanSoft® user's guide. Scanning Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE with OCR 2 ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE for Brother is installed automatically. This chapter only introduces the basic functions of different formats for printing, faxing or filing.
When you install MFL-Pro Suite, ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE for Brother is a document management application. You can use PaperPort® SE to view scanned documents. 2 Not just viewing, PaperPort® SE has a sophisticated yet easy-to-...'s Guide. For more details, see the ScanSoft® user's guide. Scanning Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE with OCR 2 ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE for Brother is installed automatically. This chapter only introduces the basic functions of different formats for printing, faxing or filing.
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... machine ControlCenter3 will connect with from the Model drop-down list. (7) h You can also open the configuration window for each function and a link to the Brother Solutions Center by clicking the Configuration button. (8) 44 3 ControlCenter3 3 Note The features available to you in ControlCenter3 may vary depending on the model number of...
... machine ControlCenter3 will connect with from the Model drop-down list. (7) h You can also open the configuration window for each function and a link to the Brother Solutions Center by clicking the Configuration button. (8) 44 3 ControlCenter3 3 Note The features available to you in ControlCenter3 may vary depending on the model number of...
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After activating PC-FAX option, the icon name changes to any printer driver for DCP models and MFC-240C) Lets you open the Brother PC-FAX address book. (See Brother Address Book on page 82.) Setup Lets you configure the PC-FAX sending settings. (See Sending setup on page 74.) Quick-Dial... a page or document and automatically send the image as a fax from the PC using any of the features of the Brother machine. (See PC-FAX receiving (Not available for MFC-240C and MFC-3360C) on page 89.) Address Book Lets you open the Set Quick-Dial window of Remote Setup. (See Remote...
After activating PC-FAX option, the icon name changes to any printer driver for DCP models and MFC-240C) Lets you open the Brother PC-FAX address book. (See Brother Address Book on page 82.) Setup Lets you configure the PC-FAX sending settings. (See Sending setup on page 74.) Quick-Dial... a page or document and automatically send the image as a fax from the PC using any of the features of the Brother machine. (See PC-FAX receiving (Not available for MFC-240C and MFC-3360C) on page 89.) Address Book Lets you open the Set Quick-Dial window of Remote Setup. (See Remote...
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ControlCenter3 PC-FAX (MFC models only) 3 The PC-FAX option lets you scan a document and automatically send the image as a fax from the PC using the Brother PC-FAX software. (See PC-FAX sending on page 76.) To change the Send settings, right-click the Send button and click ControlCenter Configuration. You can also configure the address book and change the Resolution, Scan Type, Document Size, Show Scanner Interface, Brightness and Contrast settings. 63 You can change some general machine settings. 3 Send 3 The Send button lets you send and receive faxes.
ControlCenter3 PC-FAX (MFC models only) 3 The PC-FAX option lets you scan a document and automatically send the image as a fax from the PC using the Brother PC-FAX software. (See PC-FAX sending on page 76.) To change the Send settings, right-click the Send button and click ControlCenter Configuration. You can also configure the address book and change the Resolution, Scan Type, Document Size, Show Scanner Interface, Brightness and Contrast settings. 63 You can change some general machine settings. 3 Send 3 The Send button lets you send and receive faxes.
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..., see Setting up your PC on page 91. When the PC-FAX receiving software is activated and starts to receive fax data from your Brother machine. By clicking the Receive button, the PC-FAX receiving is running, you view and store your faxes on your PC. ControlCenter3 Receive/...View Received (Not available for MFC-240C and MFC-3360C) 3 The Brother PC-FAX Receiving software option lets you can open the viewer application with the View Received button. (PaperPort® SE) Note You...
..., see Setting up your PC on page 91. When the PC-FAX receiving software is activated and starts to receive fax data from your Brother machine. By clicking the Receive button, the PC-FAX receiving is running, you view and store your faxes on your PC. ControlCenter3 Receive/...View Received (Not available for MFC-240C and MFC-3360C) 3 The Brother PC-FAX Receiving software option lets you can open the viewer application with the View Received button. (PaperPort® SE) Note You...