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... 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 Status Monitor...3 Monitoring the machine's status ...4 Turning off the status monitor...4 Printer driver settings...5 Accessing the printer driver settings...5... Basic tab ...6 Media Type...6 Quality ...7 Enhanced Print Settings ...8 Improve Pattern Printing...10 Paper Size ...10 Page Layout ...10 Orientation ...11 Copies ...11 Advanced tab...12 Color ...12 ...
... 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 Status Monitor...3 Monitoring the machine's status ...4 Turning off the status monitor...4 Printer driver settings...5 Accessing the printer driver settings...5... Basic tab ...6 Media Type...6 Quality ...7 Enhanced Print Settings ...8 Improve Pattern Printing...10 Paper Size ...10 Page Layout ...10 Orientation ...11 Copies ...11 Advanced tab...12 Color ...12 ...
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......28 Accessing the Scanner...28 Scanning a document into the PC ...29 Settings in the Scanner Setup dialog box 31 Scanning a document using the WIA driver (For Windows® XP/Windows Vista 35 WIA compliant ...35 Accessing the scanner ...35 Scanning a document into the PC ...36 Scanning a document ...using the WIA driver (For Windows Vista™ Photo Gallery and Windows Fax and Scan users 41 Accessing the scanner ...41 Scanning a document into the PC ...41 Using...
......28 Accessing the Scanner...28 Scanning a document into the PC ...29 Settings in the Scanner Setup dialog box 31 Scanning a document using the WIA driver (For Windows® XP/Windows Vista 35 WIA compliant ...35 Accessing the scanner ...35 Scanning a document into the PC ...36 Scanning a document ...using the WIA driver (For Windows Vista™ Photo Gallery and Windows Fax and Scan users 41 Accessing the scanner ...41 Scanning a document into the PC ...41 Using...
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...174; ...105 For Network Users (For models with built-in network support 107 8 Firewall settings (For Network users) 108 Before using the Brother software ...108 For Windows®XP SP2 users ...108 For Windows Vista™ users ...110 Section II Apple® Macintosh® 9...113 Simultaneous printing, scanning and faxing 113 Clearing data from the memory ...113 Checking the print quality ...113 Status Monitor ...114 Using the Brother Ink driver ...115 Choosing page setup options ...115 Choosing printing options ...116 Media Type...117 Quality ...117 Sending a fax (MFC models only) ......
...174; ...105 For Network Users (For models with built-in network support 107 8 Firewall settings (For Network users) 108 Before using the Brother software ...108 For Windows®XP SP2 users ...108 For Windows Vista™ users ...110 Section II Apple® Macintosh® 9...113 Simultaneous printing, scanning and faxing 113 Clearing data from the memory ...113 Checking the print quality ...113 Status Monitor ...114 Using the Brother Ink driver ...115 Choosing page setup options ...115 Choosing printing options ...116 Media Type...117 Quality ...117 Sending a fax (MFC models only) ......
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...the Network User's Guide for details.) This feature is available for Wireless Network Standard models only. 2 Using the Brother printer driver 1 A printer driver translates the data from the Brother Solutions Center at up to 1200 × 6000 dpi on your operating system. • If your PC ...configure the firewall settings. Screens on your PC is available for the rated print speeds of a particular ink color, you will find in 1, Watermark printing, Color Enhancement technology and many features you only have to get the highest possible resolution. (See Resolution in Specifications...
...the Network User's Guide for details.) This feature is available for Wireless Network Standard models only. 2 Using the Brother printer driver 1 A printer driver translates the data from the Brother Solutions Center at up to 1200 × 6000 dpi on your operating system. • If your PC ...configure the firewall settings. Screens on your PC is available for the rated print speeds of a particular ink color, you will find in 1, Watermark printing, Color Enhancement technology and many features you only have to get the highest possible resolution. (See Resolution in Specifications...
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b Choose Brother MFC-XXXX Printer (where XXXX is your application. The printer properties dialog box appears. 1 1 1 5 Printing Printer driver settings You can change the following printer settings when you print 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 a Click File, then Print in your model name) and click Properties.
b Choose Brother MFC-XXXX Printer (where XXXX is your application. The printer properties dialog box appears. 1 1 1 5 Printing Printer driver settings You can change the following printer settings when you print 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 a Click File, then Print in your model name) and click Properties.
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...Paper when printing with plain paper on the selected media type. Plain Paper Inkjet Paper Brother Premium Glossy Photo Paper Other Photo Paper Transparencies 6 b Choose Paper Size..., Page Layout, Page Order, Borderless, Border Line (if any), Orientation, number of Quality, Paper Size, Page Layout, Page Order, Orientation, Collate/Reverse Order and Color... being printed on should be selected in the driver. This setting may cause some slight blurring of text.
...Paper when printing with plain paper on the selected media type. Plain Paper Inkjet Paper Brother Premium Glossy Photo Paper Other Photo Paper Transparencies 6 b Choose Paper Size..., Page Layout, Page Order, Borderless, Border Line (if any), Orientation, number of Quality, Paper Size, Page Layout, Page Order, Orientation, Collate/Reverse Order and Color... being printed on should be selected in the driver. This setting may cause some slight blurring of text.
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...1 The printer driver will choose the most suitable color matching and half tone method, depending on your document. 13 Choose the best one for documents that contain text or business graphics (charts or clip art). Custom If you want to choose the color matching and halftone... choose this mode. Custom Image Type 1 You can choose the color matching method manually. Generally, text and business graphics are printed vividly and photographic images are printed softly. Auto The printer driver automatically chooses the image type. Photo Use for photographic images...
...1 The printer driver will choose the most suitable color matching and half tone method, depending on your document. 13 Choose the best one for documents that contain text or business graphics (charts or clip art). Custom If you want to choose the color matching and halftone... choose this mode. Custom Image Type 1 You can choose the color matching method manually. Generally, text and business graphics are printed vividly and photographic images are printed softly. Auto The printer driver automatically chooses the image type. Photo Use for photographic images...
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Photo Bypass Tray Help (Not available for MFC-230C) 1 Set the Photo Bypass Tray Help to On to display help instructions on how to On and choose the function which should be displayed in the Quick Print Setup icon. Set Quick Print Setup to use the photo paper tray when you quickly choose driver settings. Quick Print Setup Printing 1 1 The Quick Print Setup feature lets you select Photo or Photo L paper. 19 To view and change settings, click the tasktray icon.
Photo Bypass Tray Help (Not available for MFC-230C) 1 Set the Photo Bypass Tray Help to On to display help instructions on how to On and choose the function which should be displayed in the Quick Print Setup icon. Set Quick Print Setup to use the photo paper tray when you quickly choose driver settings. Quick Print Setup Printing 1 1 The Quick Print Setup feature lets you select Photo or Photo L paper. 19 To view and change settings, click the tasktray icon.
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... and Genuine Supplies websites. There are also links to display the following screen: Printing 1 1 Brother Solutions Center The Brother Solutions Center is a website offering information about your Brother product including FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), User's Guides, driver updates and tips for using your machine. Genuine Supplies Website The Genuine Supplies Website offers...
... and Genuine Supplies websites. There are also links to display the following screen: Printing 1 1 Brother Solutions Center The Brother Solutions Center is a website offering information about your Brother product including FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), User's Guides, driver updates and tips for using your machine. Genuine Supplies Website The Genuine Supplies Website offers...
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...the RedEye Threshold slider to use photo paper, click Properties and set the Media Type and Quality in the Print settings dialog box and your Brother machine. d Click OK. 26 Smart Portrait 1 The Smart Portrait function detects faces in the image and marks them as dotted boxes. c.... Red-eye Reduction 1 The Red-eye Reduction function lets you want to adjust the color of the skin tone automatically. You can modify the Brightness adjustment by dragging the slider. f Click Print in the printer driver dialog. a Open the photo data. a Open the photo data. e Click Print ...
...the RedEye Threshold slider to use photo paper, click Properties and set the Media Type and Quality in the Print settings dialog box and your Brother machine. d Click OK. 26 Smart Portrait 1 The Smart Portrait function detects faces in the image and marks them as dotted boxes. c.... Red-eye Reduction 1 The Red-eye Reduction function lets you want to adjust the color of the skin tone automatically. You can modify the Brightness adjustment by dragging the slider. f Click Print in the printer driver dialog. a Open the photo data. a Open the photo data. e Click Print ...
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...) or the Flatbed scanner glass. When you scan a document, you may vary when using the TWAIN driver 2 TWAIN compliant 2 The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. This means that you can not only scan images directly into hundreds of the screen. 28 You can...operating system you can also scan images directly into the PaperPort™ 11SE viewer that Brother included with OCR by NUANCE™ on page 49. • If your machine, but you are using the WIA driver (For Windows® XP/Windows Vista™) on page 35). Accessing the Scanner...
...) or the Flatbed scanner glass. When you scan a document, you may vary when using the TWAIN driver 2 TWAIN compliant 2 The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. This means that you can not only scan images directly into hundreds of the screen. 28 You can...operating system you can also scan images directly into the PaperPort™ 11SE viewer that Brother included with OCR by NUANCE™ on page 49. • If your machine, but you are using the WIA driver (For Windows® XP/Windows Vista™) on page 35). Accessing the Scanner...
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...-XXXX or WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (Where XXXX is your machine or you can scan images directly into any other applications. The process will start. Note The instructions for scanning in this Guide are using the WIA driver (For Windows® XP/Windows Vista™) ... your software application to scan the document. Scanning Scanning a document using from other applications that Brother included with your model name). • If you choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX, the TWAIN driver will vary when scanning from the Available Scanners list. c Click Select button. e Check the...
...-XXXX or WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (Where XXXX is your machine or you can scan images directly into any other applications. The process will start. Note The instructions for scanning in this Guide are using the WIA driver (For Windows® XP/Windows Vista™) ... your software application to scan the document. Scanning Scanning a document using from other applications that Brother included with your model name). • If you choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX, the TWAIN driver will vary when scanning from the Available Scanners list. c Click Select button. e Check the...
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...space for resolutions greater than 1200 dpi, the file size may freeze and you could lose your model name)/Scanner Settings. 39 Brother Scanner Utility 2 The Brother Scanner Utility is your file. Running the utility You can choose Brightness, Contrast, Resolution and Picture Type from Advanced Properties... scanned picture (3). You can run the utility by choosing Scanner Utility located in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX menu (where XXXX is used to configure the WIA scanner driver for the size of greater than 1200 dpi and for the new settings to scan. Make sure...
...space for resolutions greater than 1200 dpi, the file size may freeze and you could lose your model name)/Scanner Settings. 39 Brother Scanner Utility 2 The Brother Scanner Utility is your file. Running the utility You can choose Brightness, Contrast, Resolution and Picture Type from Advanced Properties... scanned picture (3). You can run the utility by choosing Scanner Utility located in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX menu (where XXXX is used to configure the WIA scanner driver for the size of greater than 1200 dpi and for the new settings to scan. Make sure...
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The Scan dialog box appears: Go to Scanning a document into the PC on page 42.) Scanning a document using the WIA driver (For Windows Vista™ Photo Gallery and Windows Fax and Scan users) 2 2 Accessing the scanner 2 a Open your document. 41 If you want to scan and ...-Scanning and cropping a portion using the scanner glass on page 41 Scanning a document into the PC 2 There are two ways to scan the document. b Do one of a page after pre-scanning the document, you want to use the ADF (automatic document feeder) or the Flatbed scanner glass. d Click Import. Scanning Scanning...
The Scan dialog box appears: Go to Scanning a document into the PC on page 42.) Scanning a document using the WIA driver (For Windows Vista™ Photo Gallery and Windows Fax and Scan users) 2 2 Accessing the scanner 2 a Open your document. 41 If you want to scan and ...-Scanning and cropping a portion using the scanner glass on page 41 Scanning a document into the PC 2 There are two ways to scan the document. b Do one of a page after pre-scanning the document, you want to use the ADF (automatic document feeder) or the Flatbed scanner glass. d Click Import. Scanning Scanning...
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.... ROM, then the correct drivers and the ControlCenter3 software are installed. Scan to Image 2 You can use the (Scan) key on the control panel to scan documents directly into your PC or to be addressed. Note • If you want to change between color and black and white scanning,.... Scan to E-mail 2 You can use the Scan key on a network, see Using ControlCenter3 on the control panel, you have to install the Brother MFL-Pro software suite and connect the machine to a folder on the settings of the ControlCenter3 configuration screen. (See SCAN on page 55.) •...
.... ROM, then the correct drivers and the ControlCenter3 software are installed. Scan to Image 2 You can use the (Scan) key on the control panel to scan documents directly into your PC or to be addressed. Note • If you want to change between color and black and white scanning,.... Scan to E-mail 2 You can use the Scan key on a network, see Using ControlCenter3 on the control panel, you have to install the Brother MFL-Pro software suite and connect the machine to a folder on the settings of the ControlCenter3 configuration screen. (See SCAN on page 55.) •...
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... configure the hardware Scan key on the PC including network printers. You can scan a page on the machine and print copies using any standard printer driver installed on your specific needs by REALLUSION on page 21.) COPY 3 Lets you use the PC and any printer...
... configure the hardware Scan key on the PC including network printers. You can scan a page on the machine and print copies using any standard printer driver installed on your specific needs by REALLUSION on page 21.) COPY 3 Lets you use the PC and any printer...
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... the Printer Name and click the Print Options button to be customized to let you use the Copy buttons, configure the printer driver by right-clicking the button and choosing the ControlCenter Configuration. Choose the Resolution, Scan Type, Document Size, Show Scanner Interface, ...Brightness and Contrast settings to display the printer driver settings. 72 Enter a name in 1 printing. 3 To use advanced copy functions such as N in Please enter a name for the Copy...
... the Printer Name and click the Print Options button to be customized to let you use the Copy buttons, configure the printer driver by right-clicking the button and choosing the ControlCenter Configuration. Choose the Resolution, Scan Type, Document Size, Show Scanner Interface, ...Brightness and Contrast settings to display the printer driver settings. 72 Enter a name in 1 printing. 3 To use advanced copy functions such as N in Please enter a name for the Copy...
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Note • You must configure each of the copy buttons before they can be used. • The Print Options screen will vary depending on the model of printer you can choose advanced settings for printing. ControlCenter3 3 In the printer driver settings dialog box, you have chosen. 73
Note • You must configure each of the copy buttons before they can be used. • The Print Options screen will vary depending on the model of printer you can choose advanced settings for printing. ControlCenter3 3 In the printer driver settings dialog box, you have chosen. 73
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b From an application such as Apple® TextEdit, click File, then Print to print such as Apple® TextEdit, click File, then Page Setup. You can change the settings for pop-up menu, choose the size of paper you want to start printing. 9 To do borderless printing 9 From the Paper Size pop-up menu. Make sure MFC-XXXX (where XXXX is your model name) is chosen in the Format for Paper Size, Orientation and Scale, then click OK. Printing and Faxing Using the Brother Ink driver 9 Choosing page setup options 9 a From an application such as Letter (borderless). 115
b From an application such as Apple® TextEdit, click File, then Print to print such as Apple® TextEdit, click File, then Page Setup. You can change the settings for pop-up menu, choose the size of paper you want to start printing. 9 To do borderless printing 9 From the Paper Size pop-up menu. Make sure MFC-XXXX (where XXXX is your model name) is chosen in the Format for Paper Size, Orientation and Scale, then click OK. Printing and Faxing Using the Brother Ink driver 9 Choosing page setup options 9 a From an application such as Letter (borderless). 115
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... print speed. Fast Normal 600 × 300 dpi. 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 Note The default settings are shown in the driver. Since the print data is the highest resolution and slowest speed. Photo 9 Up...
... print speed. Fast Normal 600 × 300 dpi. 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 Note The default settings are shown in the driver. Since the print data is the highest resolution and slowest speed. Photo 9 Up...