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SOFTWARE USER'S GUIDE For DCP users; Version A This documentation is for both MFC and DCP models. Where it says 'MFC' in this user's guide, please read 'MFC' as 'DCP'.
SOFTWARE USER'S GUIDE For DCP users; Version A This documentation is for both MFC and DCP models. Where it says 'MFC' in this user's guide, please read 'MFC' as 'DCP'.
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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...
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...
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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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...by double-clicking the icon in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX on your PC, the Status Monitor icon appears on the desktop. 4 Monitoring the machine's status 1 Once you to get immediate notification of one or more information about using the Status Monitor software, right-click the Status Monitor icon and choose ... indicates an error has occurred. Note For more devices, allowing you start up your PC. Printing Status Monitor 1 1 The Status Monitor utility is a configurable software tool for monitoring the status of error messages such as paper empty, paper jam or ink empty.
...by double-clicking the icon in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX on your PC, the Status Monitor icon appears on the desktop. 4 Monitoring the machine's status 1 Once you to get immediate notification of one or more information about using the Status Monitor software, right-click the Status Monitor icon and choose ... indicates an error has occurred. Note For more devices, allowing you start up your PC. Printing Status Monitor 1 1 The Status Monitor utility is a configurable software tool for monitoring the status of error messages such as paper empty, paper jam or ink empty.
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...in N options enlarges your document will be selected from the drop-down menu. Border Line 1 When printing multiple pages on one sheet with the Page Layout feature, you can be printed (in Portrait or Landscape). Orientation 1 Orientation chooses the position ... option is not available. The N in 1 options print 2, 4, 9 or 16 pages of paper. Portrait (Vertical) Landscape (Horizontal) Note If your application software contains a similar function to have a solid border, dashed border or no border around each page on 1 sheet of a document on the sheet. Printing Page Layout...
...in N options enlarges your document will be selected from the drop-down menu. Border Line 1 When printing multiple pages on one sheet with the Page Layout feature, you can be printed (in Portrait or Landscape). Orientation 1 Orientation chooses the position ... option is not available. The N in 1 options print 2, 4, 9 or 16 pages of paper. Portrait (Vertical) Landscape (Horizontal) Note If your application software contains a similar function to have a solid border, dashed border or no border around each page on 1 sheet of a document on the sheet. Printing Page Layout...
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... Two scanner drivers are using. Visit the Brother Solutions Center (http://solutions.brother.com) for communicating between scanners and applications. Windows® XP users can not only scan images directly into hundreds of other software applications that you can select either driver when...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. 2 Scanning 2 Scanning operations and the drivers used will differ depending on the operating system...
... Two scanner drivers are using. Visit the Brother Solutions Center (http://solutions.brother.com) for communicating between scanners and applications. Windows® XP users can not only scan images directly into hundreds of other software applications that you can select either driver when...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. 2 Scanning 2 Scanning operations and the drivers used will differ depending on the operating system...
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...are for scanning in the left side of the screen. Note • For Windows® XP: Choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or TW-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN. • For other software applications. Or click the Scan button. b Click File, then Scan. The Scanner Setup dialog box appears: ...23 Scanning Accessing the Scanner 2 a Start the ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE software that was installed during the MFL-Pro Suite...
...are for scanning in the left side of the screen. Note • For Windows® XP: Choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or TW-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN. • For other software applications. Or click the Scan button. b Click File, then Scan. The Scanner Setup dialog box appears: ...23 Scanning Accessing the Scanner 2 a Start the ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE software that was installed during the MFL-Pro Suite...
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... you are based on the left side of the screen. b Click File, then Scan. Scanning Scanning a document using from other applications that Brother included with your machine or you can choose Windows® Image Acquisition (WIA) when scanning images. Note The instructions for scanning in this Guide... viewer that support WIA or TWAIN scanning. Or click the Scan button. Note • Choose WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (Where XXXX is your software application to scan the document. You can scan images directly into any other applications. The Scan panel ...
... you are based on the left side of the screen. b Click File, then Scan. Scanning Scanning a document using from other applications that Brother included with your machine or you can choose Windows® Image Acquisition (WIA) when scanning images. Note The instructions for scanning in this Guide... viewer that support WIA or TWAIN scanning. Or click the Scan button. Note • Choose WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (Where XXXX is your software application to scan the document. You can scan images directly into any other applications. The Scan panel ...
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...installed. b Press the (Scan) key. You can use the (Scan) key on the control panel, you have to install the Brother MFL-Pro software suite and connect the machine to be addressed. 34 Before you can use the (Scan) key on the control panel to scan documents...c Press a or b to choose Scan to a folder on page 52.) a Load your PC. Scan to a media card. Press OK. d Press Black Start or Color Start. The machine starts scanning the document, creates a file attachment, and launches your E-mail application as a file attachment. Scanning Using the Scan key (For USB...
...installed. b Press the (Scan) key. You can use the (Scan) key on the control panel, you have to install the Brother MFL-Pro software suite and connect the machine to be addressed. 34 Before you can use the (Scan) key on the control panel to scan documents...c Press a or b to choose Scan to a folder on page 52.) a Load your PC. Scan to a media card. Press OK. d Press Black Start or Color Start. The machine starts scanning the document, creates a file attachment, and launches your E-mail application as a file attachment. Scanning Using the Scan key (For USB...
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Press OK. d Press Black Start or Color Start. You can change the (Scan) key configuration. (See Image (example: Microsoft® Paint) on page 51.) a Load your document. b Press the (Scan) key. The ... a or b to choose Scan to scan the document and convert it into a text file which can scan a color picture into your favorite word processing software. The machine starts the scanning process. 35 d Press Black Start or Color Start. c Press a or b to choose Scan to Image You can then be edited in your graphics...
Press OK. d Press Black Start or Color Start. You can change the (Scan) key configuration. (See Image (example: Microsoft® Paint) on page 51.) a Load your document. b Press the (Scan) key. The ... a or b to choose Scan to scan the document and convert it into a text file which can scan a color picture into your favorite word processing software. The machine starts the scanning process. 35 d Press Black Start or Color Start. c Press a or b to choose Scan to Image You can then be edited in your graphics...
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...For more details, see the ScanSoft® user's guide. When you mix or 'stack' documents of the software. It lets you install MFL-Pro Suite, ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE for Brother is a document management application. Scanning Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE with OCR 2 ScanSoft® ...PaperPort® SE for Brother is installed automatically. You can access ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE through the ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE program group...
...For more details, see the ScanSoft® user's guide. When you mix or 'stack' documents of the software. It lets you install MFL-Pro Suite, ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE for Brother is a document management application. Scanning Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE with OCR 2 ScanSoft® ...PaperPort® SE for Brother is installed automatically. You can access ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE through the ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE program group...
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...really just a picture of the text) into text you can use your own OCR application. 42 If PaperPort® SE does not automatically recognize one of the applications on a ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE item (which comes with links to PaperPort® SE. PaperPort® SE can ...by using the Copy Text command, you can manually create a link using the New Program Link command. PaperPort® SE uses the optical character recognition software (OCR), which is , stored in other applications on your PC and creates a 'working link' to them. ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE with...
...really just a picture of the text) into text you can use your own OCR application. 42 If PaperPort® SE does not automatically recognize one of the applications on a ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE item (which comes with links to PaperPort® SE. PaperPort® SE can ...by using the Copy Text command, you can manually create a link using the New Program Link command. PaperPort® SE uses the optical character recognition software (OCR), which is , stored in other applications on your PC and creates a 'working link' to them. ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE with...
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.... ControlCenter3 has the following operations: a Scan directly to a file, E-mail, word processor or graphics application of your machine. 3 Using ControlCenter3 3 ControlCenter3 is a software utility that lets you configure a button to meet your own application needs. (2) c Access to the advanced features of PhotoCapture Center®. (3) d Access the Copy ... You can also open the configuration window for each function and a link to manually launch specific applications. Using ControlCenter3 eliminates the need to the Brother Solutions Center by clicking the Configuration button. (8) 44
.... ControlCenter3 has the following operations: a Scan directly to a file, E-mail, word processor or graphics application of your machine. 3 Using ControlCenter3 3 ControlCenter3 is a software utility that lets you configure a button to meet your own application needs. (2) c Access to the advanced features of PhotoCapture Center®. (3) d Access the Copy ... You can also open the configuration window for each function and a link to manually launch specific applications. Using ControlCenter3 eliminates the need to the Brother Solutions Center by clicking the Configuration button. (8) 44
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If you do not have Flash Player 8 or greater, you will be able to install Macromedia Flash Player 8 or greater. Modern 7 1, 2 3 4 5 6 ControlCenter3 3 8 3 Classic 3 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 Note • To be prompted so you need to choose another connected model from the Model drop-down list, you must have the MFL-Pro Suite Software installed on your PC for that model. • For the Modern user interface, you can download the latest Flash Player. • The Modern user interface is not supported in Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition. 45
If you do not have Flash Player 8 or greater, you will be able to install Macromedia Flash Player 8 or greater. Modern 7 1, 2 3 4 5 6 ControlCenter3 3 8 3 Classic 3 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 Note • To be prompted so you need to choose another connected model from the Model drop-down list, you must have the MFL-Pro Suite Software installed on your PC for that model. • For the Modern user interface, you can download the latest Flash Player. • The Modern user interface is not supported in Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition. 45
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... the Device Button tab in the configuration menu for each of image 3 editing application on your PC. E-mail (Default: your default E-mail software) Lets you scan a page or document, automatically run the OCR application and put text (not a graphic image) into an E-mail application as a ...can choose the file type and resolution for the attachment. File Lets you copy the files on your machine and the ControlCenter3 Software button for each scan feature. You can choose the destination application, such as needed. You can choose the target word processing application, ...
... the Device Button tab in the configuration menu for each of image 3 editing application on your PC. E-mail (Default: your default E-mail software) Lets you scan a page or document, automatically run the OCR application and put text (not a graphic image) into an E-mail application as a ...can choose the file type and resolution for the attachment. File Lets you copy the files on your machine and the ControlCenter3 Software button for each scan feature. You can choose the destination application, such as needed. You can choose the target word processing application, ...
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...MFC-240C and MFC-3360C) By clicking this button, the PC-FAX receive software is activated and your PC starts receiving fax data from the control panel menu of the Brother machine. (See PC-FAX receiving (Not available for DCP models and MFC-240C) Lets you open the Set Quick-Dial window of... Remote Setup. (See Remote Setup on page 89.) Address Book Lets you open an application and display the received faxes. You can configure your Brother machine. Before using the Brother PC-FAX software. (See PC-...
...MFC-240C and MFC-3360C) By clicking this button, the PC-FAX receive software is activated and your PC starts receiving fax data from the control panel menu of the Brother machine. (See PC-FAX receiving (Not available for DCP models and MFC-240C) Lets you open the Set Quick-Dial window of... Remote Setup. (See Remote Setup on page 89.) Address Book Lets you open an application and display the received faxes. You can configure your Brother machine. Before using the Brother PC-FAX software. (See PC-...
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To change the default settings, right-click the Image button, click ControlCenter Configuration and click the Software Button tab. If you scan an image directly into your machine's Scan key for image editing. ControlCenter3 SCAN 3 There are four scan options: Scan to ...
To change the default settings, right-click the Image button, click ControlCenter Configuration and click the Software Button tab. If you scan an image directly into your machine's Scan key for image editing. ControlCenter3 SCAN 3 There are four scan options: Scan to ...
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..., choose the proper application from the drop-down list. You can delete an application that you have added by clicking the Delete button in the Software Button tab. The window may vary depending on the function. 50 You can add an application to the list by clicking the icon. Choose File...
..., choose the proper application from the drop-down list. You can delete an application that you have added by clicking the Delete button in the Software Button tab. The window may vary depending on the function. 50 You can add an application to the list by clicking the icon. Choose File...
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...want to OCR. 51 To delete an application, click the Delete button in the Software Button tab. You can also configure the other settings for Scan to scan and ...Show Scanner Interface box. You can be edited using your favorite word processing software. This text can add an application to OCR, right-click the OCR button, click ControlCenter Configuration and click ...the Software Button tab. 3 To change the word processing application, choose the destination word processing application...
...want to OCR. 51 To delete an application, click the Delete button in the Software Button tab. You can also configure the other settings for Scan to scan and ...Show Scanner Interface box. You can be edited using your favorite word processing software. This text can add an application to OCR, right-click the OCR button, click ControlCenter Configuration and click ...the Software Button tab. 3 To change the word processing application, choose the destination word processing application...
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To change the default E-mail application or attachment file type, right-click the E-mail button, click ControlCenter Configuration and click the Software Button tab. 3 To change the other settings used to create the file attachments. To delete an application, click the Delete button. 1 When you first start ...
To change the default E-mail application or attachment file type, right-click the E-mail button, click ControlCenter Configuration and click the Software Button tab. 3 To change the other settings used to create the file attachments. To delete an application, click the Delete button. 1 When you first start ...