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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 Monitor...4 ...; 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...22 Accessing the Scanner......
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 Monitor...4 ...; 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...22 Accessing the Scanner......
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...Macintosh 98 Simultaneous printing, scanning and faxing 98 Clearing data from the 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 ...a Macintosh® ...107 Accessing the scanner ...107 Scanning an image into your Macintosh 108 Pre-Scanning an image ...108 Settings in the Scanner window ...109 Using the Scan key (For USB cable users 113 Scan to E-mail ...113 Scan to Image ...114 Scan to OCR ...114 Scan...
...Macintosh 98 Simultaneous printing, scanning and faxing 98 Clearing data from the 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 ...a Macintosh® ...107 Accessing the scanner ...107 Scanning an image into your Macintosh 108 Pre-Scanning an image ...108 Settings in the Scanner window ...109 Using the Scan key (For USB cable users 113 Scan to E-mail ...113 Scan to Image ...114 Scan to OCR ...114 Scan...
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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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... 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 are from the Brother Solutions Center at up to 1200 × 6000 dpi on your PC is protected by a firewall, and is... with your PC application, and using a page description language, converts it into a format that can also download the latest drivers from Windows® XP. Wireless LAN (IEEE802.11b/g) (For Wireless models only) The wireless LAN capability lets your machine communicate with multiple PCs ...
... 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 are from the Brother Solutions Center at up to 1200 × 6000 dpi on your PC is protected by a firewall, and is... with your PC application, and using a page description language, converts it into a format that can also download the latest drivers from Windows® XP. Wireless LAN (IEEE802.11b/g) (For Wireless models only) The wireless LAN capability lets your machine communicate with multiple PCs ...
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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... Brother MFC-XXXX USB Printer or Brother MFC-XXXX Printer (where XXXX is off, you can change the following printer settings when you print from the Start menu on Startup to switch off the status monitor, follow these steps: 1 1 a Right-click the Status Monitor icon or window and...
... 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... Brother MFC-XXXX USB Printer or Brother MFC-XXXX Printer (where XXXX is off, you can change the following printer settings when you print from the Start menu on Startup to switch off the status monitor, follow these steps: 1 1 a Right-click the Status Monitor icon or window and...
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... correct paper thickness to print such as Letter (borderless). 10 You can also choose the borderless setting for this custom size. Printing Improve Pattern Printing (Windows® 2000/XP only) Select the Improve Pattern Printing option if the pattern of printed fills are using.
... correct paper thickness to print such as Letter (borderless). 10 You can also choose the borderless setting for this custom size. Printing Improve Pattern Printing (Windows® 2000/XP only) Select the Improve Pattern Printing option if the pattern of printed fills are using.
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...options enlarges your document will be selected from the drop-down menu. Printing Page Layout 1 1 The Page Layout option lets you use the one sheet with the Page Layout feature, you can be printed (in Portrait or Landscape). The N in the application. 11 Border Line 1 When... printing multiple pages on 1 sheet of a document on one in 1 options print 2, 4, 9 or 16 pages of paper. Page Order (Windows® 2000/XP only) 1 When N in poster print mode. Orientation 1 Orientation chooses the position your print size...
...options enlarges your document will be selected from the drop-down menu. Printing Page Layout 1 1 The Page Layout option lets you use the one sheet with the Page Layout feature, you can be printed (in Portrait or Landscape). The N in the application. 11 Border Line 1 When... printing multiple pages on 1 sheet of a document on one in 1 options print 2, 4, 9 or 16 pages of paper. Page Order (Windows® 2000/XP only) 1 When N in poster print mode. Orientation 1 Orientation chooses the position your print size...
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In Outline Text (Windows® 2000/XP only) 1 Check In Outline Text if you can print the watermark in the background of your document as a Watermark. You can choose one of the preset Watermarks, or you only want to use a bitmap file or text file that you want to print the watermark image...
In Outline Text (Windows® 2000/XP only) 1 Check In Outline Text if you can print the watermark in the background of your document as a Watermark. You can choose one of the preset Watermarks, or you only want to use a bitmap file or text file that you want to print the watermark image...
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...SE, see Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE with your applications. 2 For Windows® XP Two scanner drivers are using the TWAIN driver 2 TWAIN compliant 2 The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. TWAIN drivers meet the standard universal ...images directly into the PaperPort® SE viewer that support TWAIN scanning. 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...
...SE, see Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE with your applications. 2 For Windows® XP Two scanner drivers are using the TWAIN driver 2 TWAIN compliant 2 The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. TWAIN drivers meet the standard universal ...images directly into the PaperPort® SE viewer that support TWAIN scanning. 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...
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Note • For Windows® XP: Choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or TW-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN. • For other software applications. The Scanner Setup dialog box appears: 23 The scanning steps may vary when using from the Scanner ...drop-down list. 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. b Click File, then Scan. Or click the Scan button. Scanning Accessing the...
Note • For Windows® XP: Choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or TW-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN. • For other software applications. The Scanner Setup dialog box appears: 23 The scanning steps may vary when using from the Scanner ...drop-down list. 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. b Click File, then Scan. Or click the Scan button. Scanning Accessing the...
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..., if needed . 24 This is required when you want to scan 2 The PreScan button is finished, click Cancel to return to the PaperPort® SE window. 2 2 Note After you select a document size, you want to crop an image when scanning. Scanning a whole page a Load your document. 1 b Choose the settings for Image...
..., if needed . 24 This is required when you want to scan 2 The PreScan button is finished, click Cancel to return to the PaperPort® SE window. 2 2 Note After you select a document size, you want to crop an image when scanning. Scanning a whole page a Load your document. 1 b Choose the settings for Image...
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f Click Start. This time only the chosen area of the document appears in the PaperPort® SE window (or your document again. Resolution and Scan Type will be automatically altered for each of the Scanner Setup dialog box. The default settings are listed ... scanning photo images 300 × 300 dpi Use for scanning text documents 200 × 200 dpi Scan Type 24 bit color 24 bit color Black & White 25 g In the PaperPort® SE window, use the icon to restore the image to web pages 100 × 100 dpi Use for attaching the scanned image...
f Click Start. This time only the chosen area of the document appears in the PaperPort® SE window (or your document again. Resolution and Scan Type will be automatically altered for each of the Scanner Setup dialog box. The default settings are listed ... scanning photo images 300 × 300 dpi Use for scanning text documents 200 × 200 dpi Scan Type 24 bit color 24 bit color Black & White 25 g In the PaperPort® SE window, use the icon to restore the image to web pages 100 × 100 dpi Use for attaching the scanned image...
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...then Scan. The Scan panel appears on ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE. 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. Accessing the scanner 2 a Open your model name). ... for scanning in this Guide are using the WIA driver (Windows® XP only) 2 2 WIA compliant 2 For Windows® XP you can choose Windows® Image Acquisition (WIA) when scanning images. c Choose the scanner you choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX, the TWAIN driver will vary when scanning from the...
...then Scan. The Scan panel appears on ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE. 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. Accessing the scanner 2 a Open your model name). ... for scanning in this Guide are using the WIA driver (Windows® XP only) 2 2 WIA compliant 2 For Windows® XP you can choose Windows® Image Acquisition (WIA) when scanning images. c Choose the scanner you choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX, the TWAIN driver will vary when scanning from the...
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...want to set Legal size as the document is scanned and you choose a setting. 2 g Click the Scan button in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX menu (where XXXX is used to configure the WIA scanner driver for changing the paper size. The machine starts scanning the document. ...Note If you have enough memory or hard disk space then your file. 33 Brother Scanner Utility 2 The Brother Scanner Utility is your application window). Make sure that you scan the document at a resolution of greater than 1200 dpi and for resolutions greater than...
...want to set Legal size as the document is scanned and you choose a setting. 2 g Click the Scan button in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX menu (where XXXX is used to configure the WIA scanner driver for changing the paper size. The machine starts scanning the document. ...Note If you have enough memory or hard disk space then your file. 33 Brother Scanner Utility 2 The Brother Scanner Utility is your application window). Make sure that you scan the document at a resolution of greater than 1200 dpi and for resolutions greater than...
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.... You can use your preferred OCR application if it . To use a link, drag an item onto one of the applications on a ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE item (which comes with links to PaperPort® SE....174; PaperPort® SE can quickly convert the text on your PC, you can also use Windows® Explorer to manage the folders and items shown in Desktop View. You use this section to... and view their items in the Folder View. If PaperPort® SE does not automatically recognize one of the icons to start that is, stored in other applications on your PC. PaperPort®...
.... You can use your preferred OCR application if it . To use a link, drag an item onto one of the applications on a ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE item (which comes with links to PaperPort® SE....174; PaperPort® SE can quickly convert the text on your PC, you can also use Windows® Explorer to manage the folders and items shown in Desktop View. You use this section to... and view their items in the Folder View. If PaperPort® SE does not automatically recognize one of the icons to start that is, stored in other applications on your PC. PaperPort®...
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...Microsoft® Excel. Import files saved in other file formats, such as Windows® Bitmap (BMP) or Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). b Choose PaperPort from the list and click ...Change or Remove. 43 For Windows® 2000 Professional 2 a Click the Start button, Settings, Control Panel, then Add/Remove Programs...of ways and convert them to PaperPort® SE (MAX) files in the PaperPort® SE window. b Choose the drive and folder where you can bring items into other formats 2 You can export...
...Microsoft® Excel. Import files saved in other file formats, such as Windows® Bitmap (BMP) or Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). b Choose PaperPort from the list and click ...Change or Remove. 43 For Windows® 2000 Professional 2 a Click the Start button, Settings, Control Panel, then Add/Remove Programs...of ways and convert them to PaperPort® SE (MAX) files in the PaperPort® SE window. b Choose the drive and folder where you can bring items into other formats 2 You can export...
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... You can choose which 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 you in ControlCenter3 may vary depending on the model number of your often used applications. 3 ...ControlCenter3 3 Note The features available to the Brother Solutions Center by clicking the Configuration button. (8) 44 Using ControlCenter3 eliminates the need to the Custom Scan settings. ControlCenter3 has the ...
... You can choose which 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 you in ControlCenter3 may vary depending on the model number of your often used applications. 3 ...ControlCenter3 3 Note The features available to the Brother Solutions Center by clicking the Configuration button. (8) 44 Using ControlCenter3 eliminates the need to the Custom Scan settings. ControlCenter3 has the ...
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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 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 the MFL-Pro Suite Software installed on your PC for that model. • For the Modern user interface, you need to choose another connected model from the Model drop-down list, you must 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 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 the MFL-Pro Suite Software installed on your PC for that model. • For the Modern user interface, you need to choose another connected model from the Model drop-down list, you must have Flash Player 8 or greater, you will be able to install Macromedia Flash Player 8 or greater.
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... double-clicking the icon. If you do not want ControlCenter3 to close the window. 46 a Right-click the ControlCenter3 icon in the tasktray The ControlCenter3 preference window appears. , and choose Preferences. You can choose the Modern or Classic user interface for ControlCenter3. c Click OK to run automatically each time you start your...
... double-clicking the icon. If you do not want ControlCenter3 to close the window. 46 a Right-click the ControlCenter3 icon in the tasktray The ControlCenter3 preference window appears. , and choose Preferences. You can choose the Modern or Classic user interface for ControlCenter3. c Click OK to run automatically each time you start your...
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... option, the icon name changes to View Received which when clicked will open the Set Quick-Dial window of Remote Setup. (See Remote Setup on page 74.) Ink Level Lets you check ...the PC-FAX receive software is activated and your PC starts receiving fax data from the PC using the Brother PC-FAX software. (See PC-FAX sending on the PC including network printers. You can scan a page...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 sending settings. (...
... option, the icon name changes to View Received which when clicked will open the Set Quick-Dial window of Remote Setup. (See Remote Setup on page 74.) Ink Level Lets you check ...the PC-FAX receive software is activated and your PC starts receiving fax data from the PC using the Brother PC-FAX software. (See PC-FAX sending on the PC including network printers. You can scan a page...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 sending settings. (...