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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 ...ControlCenter3 ...53 Switching the user interface ...54 Turning the AutoLoad feature off...55 SCAN...55 CUSTOM SCAN ...56 PHOTOCAPTURE...56 COPY ...56 PC-FAX (MFC models only) ...57 DEVICE SETTING...57 SCAN...58 Image (example: Microsoft® Paint)...58 OCR (Word Processing program) ...60 E-mail ...61 File...
...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 ...ControlCenter3 ...53 Switching the user interface ...54 Turning the AutoLoad feature off...55 SCAN...55 CUSTOM SCAN ...56 PHOTOCAPTURE...56 COPY ...56 PC-FAX (MFC models only) ...57 DEVICE SETTING...57 SCAN...58 Image (example: Microsoft® Paint)...58 OCR (Word Processing program) ...60 E-mail ...61 File...
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...® ...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 Printing... 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) ...118 Drag a Vcard from the Mac OS® X Address Book ...
...® ...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 Printing... 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) ...118 Drag a Vcard from the Mac OS® X Address Book ...
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Using the Brother printer driver 1 A printer driver translates the data from your PC application, and using a page description language, converts it into a format that can also download the latest drivers from Windows® XP. You can be understood by the printer/multi-function device. Wireless LAN ... resolution. (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 will find in this section are from the Brother Solutions Center at up to 1200 × 6000 dpi on a network....
Using the Brother printer driver 1 A printer driver translates the data from your PC application, and using a page description language, converts it into a format that can also download the latest drivers from Windows® XP. You can be understood by the printer/multi-function device. Wireless LAN ... resolution. (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 will find in this section are from the Brother Solutions Center at up to 1200 × 6000 dpi on a network....
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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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Media Type 1 To achieve the best print results, the media being printed on the selected media type. Plain Paper Inkjet Paper Brother Premium Glossy Photo Paper Other Photo Paper Transparencies 6 c Click OK (3) to the default settings, click Default (4), then OK ...on should be selected in the driver. To return to apply your setting for Slow Drying Paper, Media Type and Quality (1). This setting may cause some slight blurring of Quality, Paper Size, Page Layout, Page Order, Orientation, Collate/Reverse Order and Color/Grayscale. Note This area (5)...
Media Type 1 To achieve the best print results, the media being printed on the selected media type. Plain Paper Inkjet Paper Brother Premium Glossy Photo Paper Other Photo Paper Transparencies 6 c Click OK (3) to the default settings, click Default (4), then OK ...on should be selected in the driver. To return to apply your setting for Slow Drying Paper, Media Type and Quality (1). This setting may cause some slight blurring of Quality, Paper Size, Page Layout, Page Order, Orientation, Collate/Reverse Order and Color/Grayscale. Note This area (5)...
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... photographic images are printed softly. Auto The printer driver automatically chooses the image type. Photo Use for photographic images. Graphics Use for your 1 image type. Custom Image Type 1 You can choose the color matching method manually. Choose the best one for documents that contain text or business graphics (charts or...
... photographic images are printed softly. Auto The printer driver automatically chooses the image type. Photo Use for photographic images. Graphics Use for your 1 image type. Custom Image Type 1 You can choose the color matching method manually. Choose the best one for documents that contain text or business graphics (charts or...
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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. 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.
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... 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 information about your Brother genuine supplies. Check Setting You...
... 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 information about your Brother genuine supplies. Check Setting You...
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...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 your Brother machine. Printing 1 Note If you reduce red-eye in the Print settings dialog ...dotted boxes. c You can use the RedEye Threshold slider to use photo paper, click Properties and set the Media Type and Quality in the printer driver dialog. a Open the photo data. b Click the Red-eye Reduction icon to detect faces automatically. Click OK. d Click OK. 26 e ...
...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 your Brother machine. Printing 1 Note If you reduce red-eye in the Print settings dialog ...dotted boxes. c You can use the RedEye Threshold slider to use photo paper, click Properties and set the Media Type and Quality in the printer driver dialog. a Open the photo data. b Click the Red-eye Reduction icon to detect faces automatically. Click OK. d Click OK. 26 e ...
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...scan images directly into the PaperPort™ 11SE viewer that you may vary when using the TWAIN driver 2 TWAIN compliant 2 The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. When you scan a document, you use the ADF (automatic document feeder) or the Flatbed scanner...the scanner glass in this Guide are installed. This means that Brother included with OCR by a firewall and is unable to allow communication through port number 137 and 54925. 2 Scanning 2 Scanning operations and the drivers used will differ depending on page 108. Note • ...
...scan images directly into the PaperPort™ 11SE viewer that you may vary when using the TWAIN driver 2 TWAIN compliant 2 The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. When you scan a document, you use the ADF (automatic document feeder) or the Flatbed scanner...the scanner glass in this Guide are installed. This means that Brother included with OCR by a firewall and is unable to allow communication through port number 137 and 54925. 2 Scanning 2 Scanning operations and the drivers used will differ depending on page 108. Note • ...
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... or WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (Where XXXX is your software application to scan the document. f Click Scan. Note The instructions for scanning in this Guide are using the WIA driver (For Windows® XP/Windows Vista™) 2 WIA compliant 2 2 For Windows® XP/Windows Vista™...or Get Photo button. The process will start. Accessing the scanner 2 a Open your model name). • If you choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX, the TWAIN driver will vary when scanning from the Available Scanners list. You can choose Windows® Image Acquisition (WIA) when scanning images. b Click ...
... or WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (Where XXXX is your software application to scan the document. f Click Scan. Note The instructions for scanning in this Guide are using the WIA driver (For Windows® XP/Windows Vista™) 2 WIA compliant 2 2 For Windows® XP/Windows Vista™...or Get Photo button. The process will start. Accessing the scanner 2 a Open your model name). • If you choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX, the TWAIN driver will vary when scanning from the Available Scanners list. You can choose Windows® Image Acquisition (WIA) when scanning images. b Click ...
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...access advanced settings, click Adjust the quality of the document appears in the Scan dialog box. Brother Scanner Utility 2 The Brother Scanner Utility is used to configure the WIA scanner driver for changing the paper size. You can run the utility by choosing Scanner Utility located in ...Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX menu (where XXXX is your application window). The machine starts scanning the document. Note If you choose a setting. ...
...access advanced settings, click Adjust the quality of the document appears in the Scan dialog box. Brother Scanner Utility 2 The Brother Scanner Utility is used to configure the WIA scanner driver for changing the paper size. You can run the utility by choosing Scanner Utility located in ...Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX menu (where XXXX is your application window). The machine starts scanning the document. Note If you choose a setting. ...
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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. c Choose the scanner you ... Pre-Scanning and cropping a portion using the scanner glass on page 41 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 d Click Import. The Scan dialog box...
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. c Choose the scanner you ... Pre-Scanning and cropping a portion using the scanner glass on page 41 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 d Click Import. The Scan dialog box...
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...configuration of the Device Button tab of your choice using the (Scan) key, see Using the Scan key on page 83. ROM, then the correct drivers and the ControlCenter3 software are installed. c Press a or b to choose Scan to launch the application of the ControlCenter3 software. (See SCAN on page ...Note 2 If you use the (Scan) key on the control panel, you have to install the Brother MFL-Pro software suite and connect the machine to E-mail 2 You can scan either a black and white or color document into your E-mail application as a file attachment. You can use the Scan key on a ...
...configuration of the Device Button tab of your choice using the (Scan) key, see Using the Scan key on page 83. ROM, then the correct drivers and the ControlCenter3 software are installed. c Press a or b to choose Scan to launch the application of the ControlCenter3 software. (See SCAN on page ...Note 2 If you use the (Scan) key on the control panel, you have to install the Brother MFL-Pro software suite and connect the machine to E-mail 2 You can scan either a black and white or color document into your E-mail application as a file attachment. You can use the Scan key on a ...
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...memory card. (See Using PhotoCapture Center® on page 105.) Copy From PCC Lets you use the PC and any standard printer driver installed on the PC including network printers. To configure the hardware Scan key on your machine and the ControlCenter3 Software button for enhanced copy operations... on the USB Flash memory drive or the memory card directly to a specific application. FaceFilter Studio Lets you scan directly to any printer driver for each of the SCAN buttons. 3 CUSTOM SCAN 3 You can direct the copy output to a disk file. You can change the file type...
...memory card. (See Using PhotoCapture Center® on page 105.) Copy From PCC Lets you use the PC and any standard printer driver installed on the PC including network printers. To configure the hardware Scan key on your machine and the ControlCenter3 Software button for enhanced copy operations... on the USB Flash memory drive or the memory card directly to a specific application. FaceFilter Studio Lets you scan directly to any printer driver for each of the SCAN buttons. 3 CUSTOM SCAN 3 You can direct the copy output to a disk file. You can change the file type...
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... the Copy Button text field (up to 30 characters) and choose Copy Ratio. Enter a name in 1 printing. 3 To use the Copy buttons, configure the printer driver by right-clicking the button and choosing the ControlCenter Configuration. Before finishing the Copy button configuration, set the Printer Name and click the Print Options...
... the Copy Button text field (up to 30 characters) and choose Copy Ratio. Enter a name in 1 printing. 3 To use the Copy buttons, configure the printer driver by right-clicking the button and choosing the ControlCenter Configuration. Before finishing the Copy button configuration, set the Printer Name and click the Print Options...
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ControlCenter3 3 In the printer driver settings dialog box, you can be used. • The Print Options screen will vary depending on the model of printer you have chosen. 73 Note • You must configure each of the copy buttons before they can choose advanced settings for printing.
ControlCenter3 3 In the printer driver settings dialog box, you can be used. • The Print Options screen will vary depending on the model of printer you have chosen. 73 Note • You must configure each of the copy buttons before they can choose advanced settings for printing.
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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 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. You can change the settings for pop-up menu, choose the size of paper you want to print such as Apple® TextEdit, click File, then Page Setup.
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 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. You can change the settings for pop-up menu, choose the size of paper you want to print such as Apple® TextEdit, click File, then Page Setup.
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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 related. Faster print speed than Photo. Normal 600..., Fast Normal, Normal, Fine Fine, Photo Fine, Photo, Highest Normal, Fine 117 Print quality and speed are shown in the driver. The quality selections that are available will be longer. Fine 1200 × 1200 dpi. Since the print data is the...
... 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 related. Faster print speed than Photo. Normal 600..., Fast Normal, Normal, Fine Fine, Photo Fine, Photo, Highest Normal, Fine 117 Print quality and speed are shown in the driver. The quality selections that are available will be longer. Fine 1200 × 1200 dpi. Since the print data is the...