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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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...firewall, and is unable to print, you will find in this section are using. Brilliant High Quality Output Printing at : http://solutions.brother.com Features 1 This machine offers many other wireless devices using a page description language, converts it into a format that can be ...get the highest possible 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 may vary depending on your operating system. • If your PC application, and using the IEEE802...
...firewall, and is unable to print, you will find in this section are using. Brilliant High Quality Output Printing at : http://solutions.brother.com Features 1 This machine offers many other wireless devices using a page description language, converts it into a format that can be ...get the highest possible 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 may vary depending on your operating system. • If your PC application, and using the IEEE802...
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... more devices, allowing 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. There are two locations where you start up your PC-in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX on your PC. Monitoring the machine's status 1 Once...
... more devices, allowing 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. There are two locations where you start up your PC-in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX on your PC. Monitoring the machine's status 1 Once...
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The printer properties dialog box appears. 5 b Choose Brother MFC-XXXX USB Printer or Brother MFC-XXXX Printer (where XXXX is off, you can change the following printer settings when you want to clear the check mark. Note Even if the ... machine's status at 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, then Print in...
The printer properties dialog box appears. 5 b Choose Brother MFC-XXXX USB Printer or Brother MFC-XXXX Printer (where XXXX is off, you can change the following printer settings when you want to clear the check mark. Note Even if the ... machine's status at 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, then Print in...
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... print the document. 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, Highest Normal, Fine Note • The default settings are available will take to 1200 × 2400 dpi. The quality selections that are shown in bold. • For DCP-130C and MFC...
... print the document. 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, Highest Normal, Fine Note • The default settings are available will take to 1200 × 2400 dpi. The quality selections that are shown in bold. • For DCP-130C and MFC...
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... 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 automatic downloads to the Brother Solutions Center and driver update web sites. There are... also links to update the printer driver on your machine. Web Update You can check the Brother web site for using your PC. Check Setting You can check current driver settings. 21 Support tab The Support tab ...
... 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 automatic downloads to the Brother Solutions Center and driver update web sites. There are... also links to update the printer driver on your machine. Web Update You can check the Brother web site for using your PC. Check Setting You can check current driver settings. 21 Support tab The Support tab ...
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...can select either driver when scanning documents. TWAIN drivers meet the standard universal protocol for more . 22 Visit the Brother Solutions Center (http://solutions.brother.com) for communicating between scanners and applications. A TWAIN compliant scanner driver (See TWAIN compliant on 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. These applications include popular programs, such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe...
...can select either driver when scanning documents. TWAIN drivers meet the standard universal protocol for more . 22 Visit the Brother Solutions Center (http://solutions.brother.com) for communicating between scanners and applications. A TWAIN compliant scanner driver (See TWAIN compliant on 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. These applications include popular programs, such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe...
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.... 2 Note The instructions for when you are using other operating systems: Choose Brother MFC-XXXX USB or Brother MFC-XXXX LAN. (Where XXXX is your model name) d Click 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...
.... 2 Note The instructions for when you are using other operating systems: Choose Brother MFC-XXXX USB or Brother MFC-XXXX LAN. (Where XXXX is your model name) d Click 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...
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...for scanning in this Guide are using the WIA driver (Windows® XP only) 2 2 WIA compliant 2 For Windows® XP you choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX, the TWAIN driver will vary when scanning from the Scanner drop-down list. The process will start. The Scan panel appears on ScanSoft®... model name). • If you can scan images directly into any other applications. b Click File, then Scan. Note • Choose WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (Where XXXX is your machine or you are based on the left side of the screen. The Scan dialog box appears...
...for scanning in this Guide are using the WIA driver (Windows® XP only) 2 2 WIA compliant 2 For Windows® XP you choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX, the TWAIN driver will vary when scanning from the Scanner drop-down list. The process will start. The Scan panel appears on ScanSoft®... model name). • If you can scan images directly into any other applications. b Click File, then Scan. Note • Choose WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (Where XXXX is your machine or you are based on the left side of the screen. The Scan dialog box appears...
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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). The machine starts scanning the document. 31 Scanning e 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.
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). The machine starts scanning the document. 31 Scanning e 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.
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...may dramatically increase. The machine starts scanning the document. Click OK after you choose a setting. 2 g Click the Scan button in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX menu (where XXXX is scanned and you could lose your PC for changing the paper size. You can run the utility by choosing Scanner... Utility located in the Scan dialog box. Brother Scanner Utility 2 The Brother Scanner Utility is used to configure the WIA scanner driver for resolutions greater than 1200 dpi, the file size may freeze as ...
...may dramatically increase. The machine starts scanning the document. Click OK after you choose a setting. 2 g Click the Scan button in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX menu (where XXXX is scanned and you could lose your PC for changing the paper size. You can run the utility by choosing Scanner... Utility located in the Scan dialog box. Brother Scanner Utility 2 The Brother Scanner Utility is used to configure the WIA scanner driver for resolutions greater than 1200 dpi, the file size may freeze as ...
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...your word processing, graphics or E-mail applications, to a folder on the control panel to your E-mail application as a file attachment. d Press Black Start or Color Start. Scanning Using the Scan key (For USB cable users) 2 Note 2 If you installed the MFL-Pro Suite from the included CD- c Press a or...use the (Scan) key on your E-mail application, displaying the new message waiting to E-mail. Press OK. Before you have to install the Brother MFL-Pro software suite and connect the machine to scan documents directly into your PC. b Press the (Scan) key.
...your word processing, graphics or E-mail applications, to a folder on the control panel to your E-mail application as a file attachment. d Press Black Start or Color Start. Scanning Using the Scan key (For USB cable users) 2 Note 2 If you installed the MFL-Pro Suite from the included CD- c Press a or...use the (Scan) key on your E-mail application, displaying the new message waiting to E-mail. Press OK. Before you have to install the Brother MFL-Pro software suite and connect the machine to scan documents directly into your PC. b Press the (Scan) key.
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...has a sophisticated yet easy-to-use filing system that will help you install MFL-Pro Suite, ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE for Brother is a document management application. For more details, see the ScanSoft® user's guide. This chapter only introduces the basic functions of ...different formats for Brother is installed automatically. It lets you mix or 'stack' documents of the software. Scanning Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE with OCR...
...has a sophisticated yet easy-to-use filing system that will help you install MFL-Pro Suite, ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE for Brother is a document management application. For more details, see the ScanSoft® user's guide. This chapter only introduces the basic functions of ...different formats for Brother is installed automatically. It lets you mix or 'stack' documents of the software. Scanning Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE with OCR...
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... also open the configuration window for your device. (5) f Access the settings available to configure your often used 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...
... also open the configuration window for your device. (5) f Access the settings available to configure your often used 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...
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...of the machine's printer driver, or you can configure your preferred settings on up to four buttons. 3 PC-FAX (MFC models only) 3 These buttons are for sending or receiving faxes using the Brother PC-FAX application. Send Lets you scan a page or document and automatically send the image as a fax ...) Lets you open the Set Quick-Dial window 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 Brother PC-FAX address book. (See Brother Address Book on page 82.) Setup Lets you configure the PC-FAX...
...of the machine's printer driver, or you can configure your preferred settings on up to four buttons. 3 PC-FAX (MFC models only) 3 These buttons are for sending or receiving faxes using the Brother PC-FAX application. Send Lets you scan a page or document and automatically send the image as a fax ...) Lets you open the Set Quick-Dial window 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 Brother PC-FAX address book. (See Brother Address Book on page 82.) Setup Lets you configure the PC-FAX...
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You can also configure the address book and 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 change the Resolution, Scan Type, Document Size, Show Scanner Interface, Brightness and Contrast settings. 63
You can also configure the address book and 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 change the Resolution, Scan Type, Document Size, Show Scanner Interface, Brightness and Contrast settings. 63
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Before you use the PC-FAX Receive function, you install the MFL-Pro Suite. 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... can also activate the PC-FAX receiving software from the control panel menu of the Brother machine. (See Running the PC-FAX ...
Before you use the PC-FAX Receive function, you install the MFL-Pro Suite. 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... can also activate the PC-FAX receiving software from the control panel menu of the Brother machine. (See Running the PC-FAX ...