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Table of Contents Section I Windows® 1 Printing 2 Using the Brother printer driver...2 Printing a document...3 Duplex printing...4 Guidelines for printing on both sides of the paper 4 Manual duplex printing ...4 Simultaneous scanning, printing and faxing 4 Printer operation keys...5 Job Cancel...5 Secure Key ...5 Printer Emulation Support (MFC-7840W only 6 Printing the Internal Font List (MFC-7840W only 7 Printing...
Table of Contents Section I Windows® 1 Printing 2 Using the Brother printer driver...2 Printing a document...3 Duplex printing...4 Guidelines for printing on both sides of the paper 4 Manual duplex printing ...4 Simultaneous scanning, printing and faxing 4 Printer operation keys...5 Job Cancel...5 Secure Key ...5 Printer Emulation Support (MFC-7840W only 6 Printing the Internal Font List (MFC-7840W only 7 Printing...
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Scanning a document using the WIA driver (For Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Fax and Scan users 43 Scanning a document into the PC ...43 Pre-Scanning to crop a portion you want to scan using the scanner glass 45 ...
Scanning a document using the WIA driver (For Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Fax and Scan users 43 Scanning a document into the PC ...43 Pre-Scanning to crop a portion you want to scan using the scanner glass 45 ...
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Status Monitor...120 Updating the machine's status ...120 Hiding or showing the window ...120 Quitting the window ...120 Web Based Management (Network Connection Only 120 Features in the printer driver (For Macintosh 121 Page Setup...121 Choosing page setup options ...121 Cover Page (For Mac OS® X 10.4 or greater 123 Layout ...123 Secure...
Status Monitor...120 Updating the machine's status ...120 Hiding or showing the window ...120 Quitting the window ...120 Web Based Management (Network Connection Only 120 Features in the printer driver (For Macintosh 121 Page Setup...121 Choosing page setup options ...121 Cover Page (For Mac OS® X 10.4 or greater 123 Layout ...123 Secure...
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...through port number 137. Using the Brother printer driver 1 A printer driver is software that translates data from Windows® XP. The printer drivers are on page 110. Install the drivers by a particular printer, using our installer program. The drivers support our unique compression mode to ...and custom paper size. 2 You can also be downloaded from the Brother Solutions Center at: http://solutions.brother.com Windows® Printing The dedicated printer drivers for Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional/XP/Windows Vista® are from the format used by a firewall, and is...
...through port number 137. Using the Brother printer driver 1 A printer driver is software that translates data from Windows® XP. The printer drivers are on page 110. Install the drivers by a particular printer, using our installer program. The drivers support our unique compression mode to ...and custom paper size. 2 You can also be downloaded from the Brother Solutions Center at: http://solutions.brother.com Windows® Printing The dedicated printer drivers for Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional/XP/Windows Vista® are from the format used by a firewall, and is...
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... duplex printing 1 The machine prints all the even-numbered pages on one side of the paper 1 If the paper is copying or...the stack. When you (with a pop-up message) to reinsert the paper. Then, the Windows® driver instructs you use the manual duplex function, it may be stopped during PC printing. Fax sending will not ...be paper jams or poor print quality. Printing Duplex printing 1 1 The supplied printer driver supports duplex printing. Guidelines for printing on paper, it well, or you have a print quality problem, see ...
... duplex printing 1 The machine prints all the even-numbered pages on one side of the paper 1 If the paper is copying or...the stack. When you (with a pop-up message) to reinsert the paper. Then, the Windows® driver instructs you use the manual duplex function, it may be stopped during PC printing. Fax sending will not ...be paper jams or poor print quality. Printing Duplex printing 1 1 The supplied printer driver supports duplex printing. Guidelines for printing on paper, it well, or you have a print quality problem, see ...
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... Print Setup 1 Macro Header-Footer Print 1 Density adjustment Improve Print Output 1 These settings are not available with the BR-script printer driver for Windows®. Printing 1 1 10 Printer driver settings Note For Macintosh® users, see Printing and Faxing on page 116.
... Print Setup 1 Macro Header-Footer Print 1 Density adjustment Improve Print Output 1 These settings are not available with the BR-script printer driver for Windows®. Printing 1 1 10 Printer driver settings Note For Macintosh® users, see Printing and Faxing on page 116.
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...change settings by clicking Printing Preferences... b Choose the Paper Source (2). Paper Size 1 From the drop-down box choose the Paper Size you are from Windows® XP. c Click OK to the default settings, click Default, then OK. Note • The screens in this section are using. 11... in the printer driver. The screens on your PC will vary depending on the left side of the Printer Properties dialog box. Printing Features in the Windows® printer driver 1 1 For more information, see the Help text in the General tab...
...change settings by clicking Printing Preferences... b Choose the Paper Source (2). Paper Size 1 From the drop-down box choose the Paper Size you are from Windows® XP. c Click OK to the default settings, click Default, then OK. Note • The screens in this section are using. 11... in the printer driver. The screens on your PC will vary depending on the left side of the Printer Properties dialog box. Printing Features in the Windows® printer driver 1 1 For more information, see the Help text in the General tab...
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...printed. (Portrait, Landscape or Rotated Landscape) • Page Order Specifies the order in the General tab of the Brother MFC-XXXX BR-Script3 Properties (or Brother DCP-XXXX BR-Script3 Properties) dialog box. Layout tab You can access the Printing Preferences dialog box by choosing...printed. Printing Features in the BR-Script (PostScript® 3 ™ language emulation) printer driver (MFC-7840W only) 1 1 For more information, see the Help text in this section are from Windows® XP. The screens on your operating system. Printing Preferences 1 Note You can change ...
...printed. (Portrait, Landscape or Rotated Landscape) • Page Order Specifies the order in the General tab of the Brother MFC-XXXX BR-Script3 Properties (or Brother DCP-XXXX BR-Script3 Properties) dialog box. Layout tab You can access the Printing Preferences dialog box by choosing...printed. Printing Features in the BR-Script (PostScript® 3 ™ language emulation) printer driver (MFC-7840W only) 1 1 For more information, see the Help text in this section are from Windows® XP. The screens on your operating system. Printing Preferences 1 Note You can change ...
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...2 Scanning 2 The scanning operations and drivers will be different depending on your document. These applications include popular programs like Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe® PageMaker®, CorelDraw® and many more. You can either one of the two when you can not... the TWAIN driver on page 37). Windows® XP and Windows Vista® users can choose either use ScanSoft™ PaperPort™ 11SE. See Firewall settings (For Network users) on the left side of other software applications. Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver 2 The Brother MFL-Pro ...
...2 Scanning 2 The scanning operations and drivers will be different depending on your document. These applications include popular programs like Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe® PageMaker®, CorelDraw® and many more. You can either one of the two when you can not... the TWAIN driver on page 37). Windows® XP and Windows Vista® users can choose either use ScanSoft™ PaperPort™ 11SE. See Firewall settings (For Network users) on the left side of other software applications. Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver 2 The Brother MFL-Pro ...
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... Windows® Image Acquisition (WIA) for scanning images from the Available Scanners list. The Scan or Get Photo panel appears on the Scan or Get Photo panel. d Click Select button. Note Choose WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX (WIA-Brother DCP-XXXX) or WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (WIA-Brother DCP-...the PaperPort™ 11SE viewer that supports WIA or TWAIN scanning. Scanning Scanning a document using the WIA driver (For Windows® XP/ Windows Vista®) 2 2 WIA compliant 2 For Windows® XP /Windows Vista® you can scan a whole page. You can also click the Scan or Get Photo button...
... Windows® Image Acquisition (WIA) for scanning images from the Available Scanners list. The Scan or Get Photo panel appears on the Scan or Get Photo panel. d Click Select button. Note Choose WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX (WIA-Brother DCP-XXXX) or WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (WIA-Brother DCP-...the PaperPort™ 11SE viewer that supports WIA or TWAIN scanning. Scanning Scanning a document using the WIA driver (For Windows® XP/ Windows Vista®) 2 2 WIA compliant 2 For Windows® XP /Windows Vista® you can scan a whole page. You can also click the Scan or Get Photo button...
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...the utility You can run the utility by choosing the Scanner Utility located in the Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX (or DCP-XXXX) (where XXXX is used for configuring the WIA scanner driver for resolutions greater than 1200 dpi, the file size may freeze and you could lose your model ...name)/ Scanner Settings/Scanner Utility. You must restart your PC for changing the paper size. Note For Windows Vista®...
...the utility You can run the utility by choosing the Scanner Utility located in the Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX (or DCP-XXXX) (where XXXX is used for configuring the WIA scanner driver for resolutions greater than 1200 dpi, the file size may freeze and you could lose your model ...name)/ Scanner Settings/Scanner Utility. You must restart your PC for changing the paper size. Note For Windows Vista®...
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If you want to use. c Do one of a page after pre-scanning the document, you need to use the scanner glass. (See Pre-Scanning to crop a portion you want to scan using the WIA driver (For Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Fax and Scan users) 2 2 Scanning a document into the PC 2 There ...are two ways in which you want to scan and then crop a portion of the following: For Windows Photo Gallery Click File, then Import from ...
If you want to use. c Do one of a page after pre-scanning the document, you need to use the scanner glass. (See Pre-Scanning to crop a portion you want to scan using the WIA driver (For Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Fax and Scan users) 2 2 Scanning a document into the PC 2 There ...are two ways in which you want to scan and then crop a portion of the following: For Windows Photo Gallery Click File, then Import from ...
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...N Network PC FAX Macintosh® (Send only 142 Windows 92 P PaperPort™ (Windows®) importing 52 OCR 52 Presto!® PageManager® (Macintosh 155, 157 Printer driver 25 PS printer driver 25 R Remote Setup Macintosh 189 Windows 90 S Scan Macintosh® into Macintosh 150 Network ...179 OCR 157 Presto!® PageManager 155, 157 Resolution 151 Scan key 154 Windows® Network 78 Resolution 34 Scan ...
...N Network PC FAX Macintosh® (Send only 142 Windows 92 P PaperPort™ (Windows®) importing 52 OCR 52 Presto!® PageManager® (Macintosh 155, 157 Printer driver 25 PS printer driver 25 R Remote Setup Macintosh 189 Windows 90 S Scan Macintosh® into Macintosh 150 Network ...179 OCR 157 Presto!® PageManager 155, 157 Resolution 151 Scan key 154 Windows® Network 78 Resolution 34 Scan ...
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...Brother driver updates. Your registration with Brother International Corporation, you will help , you must be recorded as confirmation of the purchase date of your product should you lose your Brother product. http://solutions.brother...for Windows® only). To keep your product with Brother:...Brother authorized service center, call 1-877-BROTHER. Brother numbers IMPORTANT For technical help us notify you of enhancements to register your new product, register on-line at http://www.brother.com/registration/ FAQs (frequently asked questions) The Brother Solutions Center is our one...
...Brother driver updates. Your registration with Brother International Corporation, you will help , you must be recorded as confirmation of the purchase date of your product should you lose your Brother product. http://solutions.brother...for Windows® only). To keep your product with Brother:...Brother authorized service center, call 1-877-BROTHER. Brother numbers IMPORTANT For technical help us notify you of enhancements to register your new product, register on-line at http://www.brother.com/registration/ FAQs (frequently asked questions) The Brother Solutions Center is our one...
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... find the instructions as follows: Software User's Guide: 1 Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver in Chapter 2 Scanning a document using the WIA driver (For Windows® XP/Windows Vista® only) in Chapter 2 Using ControlCenter3 in Chapter 3 ScanSoft™ PaperPort™...The documents are required.) How to view the Software User's Guide in HTML format. 4 c Double-click the Documentation icon. Insert the Brother CD-ROM labeled Macintosh® into your language. d If the language selection screen appears, double-click your CD-ROM drive. Viewing ...
... find the instructions as follows: Software User's Guide: 1 Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver in Chapter 2 Scanning a document using the WIA driver (For Windows® XP/Windows Vista® only) in Chapter 2 Using ControlCenter3 in Chapter 3 ScanSoft™ PaperPort™...The documents are required.) How to view the Software User's Guide in HTML format. 4 c Double-click the Documentation icon. Insert the Brother CD-ROM labeled Macintosh® into your language. d If the language selection screen appears, double-click your CD-ROM drive. Viewing ...
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...® 2003) Click the Start button and choose Printers. OCR does not work Suggestions Make sure that machine is online: (For Windows Vista®) Click the Start button, Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, and then Printers. Then turn off the machine's power switch and ...is showing an error message. (See Error and maintenance messages on page 55.) Check that the Brother TWAIN driver is set up to work with your machine. Your computer is printed. Right-click Brother DCP-XXXX Printer. In PaperPort™ 11SE, click File, Scan or Get Photo and choose the...
...® 2003) Click the Start button and choose Printers. OCR does not work Suggestions Make sure that machine is online: (For Windows Vista®) Click the Start button, Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, and then Printers. Then turn off the machine's power switch and ...is showing an error message. (See Error and maintenance messages on page 55.) Check that the Brother TWAIN driver is set up to work with your machine. Your computer is printed. Right-click Brother DCP-XXXX Printer. In PaperPort™ 11SE, click File, Scan or Get Photo and choose the...
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... other print media on page 12.) ABCDEFGH abcdefghijk ABCD abcde 01234 Make sure that you choose the appropriate media type in the printer driver or in the machine's Paper Type menu setting. (See Acceptable paper and other print media on page 12.) Check the machine's ...page 74.) 49 Put in a new drum unit. (See Replacing the drum unit on page 74.) Wipe the laser scanner windows with a soft cloth. (See Cleaning the laser scanner window on page 64.) ABCDEFGH abcdefghijk ABCD abcde 01234 Make sure that meets our specifications. (See Acceptable paper and other...
... other print media on page 12.) ABCDEFGH abcdefghijk ABCD abcde 01234 Make sure that you choose the appropriate media type in the printer driver or in the machine's Paper Type menu setting. (See Acceptable paper and other print media on page 12.) Check the machine's ...page 74.) 49 Put in a new drum unit. (See Replacing the drum unit on page 74.) Wipe the laser scanner windows with a soft cloth. (See Cleaning the laser scanner window on page 64.) ABCDEFGH abcdefghijk ABCD abcde 01234 Make sure that meets our specifications. (See Acceptable paper and other...
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Call Brother Customer Service. Check the paper type and quality. (See Acceptable paper and other print media ...paper and other print media on page 12.) Make sure that you choose the proper media type in the printer driver or in the machine's Paper Type menu setting. (See Acceptable paper and other print media on page 12 and Basic tab...or rotate the paper 180° in the input tray. Choose Improve Toner Fixing mode in the printer driver. (See Device Options (For Windows®) or Print Settings (For Macintosh®) in the software User's Guide on the CD-ROM.) If you print...
Call Brother Customer Service. Check the paper type and quality. (See Acceptable paper and other print media ...paper and other print media on page 12.) Make sure that you choose the proper media type in the printer driver or in the machine's Paper Type menu setting. (See Acceptable paper and other print media on page 12 and Basic tab...or rotate the paper 180° in the input tray. Choose Improve Toner Fixing mode in the printer driver. (See Device Options (For Windows®) or Print Settings (For Macintosh®) in the software User's Guide on the CD-ROM.) If you print...
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Examples of the drum unit. (See Cleaning the laser scanner window on page 64 and Cleaning the corona wire on page 66.) The toner cartridge may be... a new drum unit. (See Replacing the drum unit on page 70.) The drum unit may be damaged. Call Brother Customer Service. Clean the primary corona wire inside the drum unit by sliding the green tab. Put in a new ...52 Turn off Toner Save mode in the machine menu settings or Toner Save mode in the printer Properties of the driver. (See Toner save on page 20 or Advanced tab in the Software User's Guide on page 68.) ...
Examples of the drum unit. (See Cleaning the laser scanner window on page 64 and Cleaning the corona wire on page 66.) The toner cartridge may be... a new drum unit. (See Replacing the drum unit on page 70.) The drum unit may be damaged. Call Brother Customer Service. Clean the primary corona wire inside the drum unit by sliding the green tab. Put in a new ...52 Turn off Toner Save mode in the machine menu settings or Toner Save mode in the printer Properties of the driver. (See Toner save on page 20 or Advanced tab in the Software User's Guide on page 68.) ...
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Examples of poor print quality Curled Recommendation Choose Reduce Paper Curl mode in the printer driver when you do not use our recommended paper. (See Device Options (For Windows®) or Print Settings (For Macintosh®) in the Software User's Guide on the CD-ROM.) Turn the paper over in the...
Examples of poor print quality Curled Recommendation Choose Reduce Paper Curl mode in the printer driver when you do not use our recommended paper. (See Device Options (For Windows®) or Print Settings (For Macintosh®) in the Software User's Guide on the CD-ROM.) Turn the paper over in the...