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Table of Contents 1 i Using the machine as a printer (For Windows 1-1 Using the Brother printer driver 1-1 Features 1-1 Choosing the right type of paper 1-2 Printing a document 1-2 Simultaneous printing and faxing 1-3 Clearing data from the memory 1-3 Checking the Print Quality 1-3 Printer operation key 1-3 Job Cancel (MFC-5440CN only 1-3 Status Monitor (Windows® only 1-4 Watching the machine's status...
Table of Contents 1 i Using the machine as a printer (For Windows 1-1 Using the Brother printer driver 1-1 Features 1-1 Choosing the right type of paper 1-2 Printing a document 1-2 Simultaneous printing and faxing 1-3 Clearing data from the memory 1-3 Checking the Print Quality 1-3 Printer operation key 1-3 Job Cancel (MFC-5440CN only 1-3 Status Monitor (Windows® only 1-4 Watching the machine's status...
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... a document using the ADF 2-5 Pre-Scanning to crop a portion you want to scan using the scanner glass (not available for MFC-3240C and MFC-3340CN 2-7 Brother Scanner Utility 2-9 TWAIN compliant scanner driver for Windows® XP... 2-9 Scanning a document 2-10 TWAIN compliant 2-10 How to access the Scanner 2-11 Scanning a document into the PC 2-12 Scanning...
... a document using the ADF 2-5 Pre-Scanning to crop a portion you want to scan using the scanner glass (not available for MFC-3240C and MFC-3340CN 2-7 Brother Scanner Utility 2-9 TWAIN compliant scanner driver for Windows® XP... 2-9 Scanning a document 2-10 TWAIN compliant 2-10 How to access the Scanner 2-11 Scanning a document into the PC 2-12 Scanning...
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... available for MFC-3240C and MFC-210C 7-1 Network License 7-1 Registering your PC with the machine 7-2 Using the Scan key 7-5 Scan to E-mail (PC 7-5 Scan to Image 7-6 Scan to OCR 7-7 Scan to File 7-8 Using your machine with a Macintosh 8-1 Setting up your USB-equipped Apple® Macintosh 8-1 Media Type 8-2 Quality 8-2 Using the Brother printer driver with...
... available for MFC-3240C and MFC-210C 7-1 Network License 7-1 Registering your PC with the machine 7-2 Using the Scan key 7-5 Scan to E-mail (PC 7-5 Scan to Image 7-6 Scan to OCR 7-7 Scan to File 7-8 Using your machine with a Macintosh 8-1 Setting up your USB-equipped Apple® Macintosh 8-1 Media Type 8-2 Quality 8-2 Using the Brother printer driver with...
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.... Ethernet-Ethernet Interface provides shared communications with your computer. 1 Using the machine as a printer (For Windows®) Using the Brother printer driver A Printer Driver is software that 's empty. Fast Printing Speed-Using Fast mode, you highest resolution. (See Resolution in a high quality ink jet...full color, and up to replace the cartridge that translates data from the Brother Solutions Center at up to get high quality printouts. USING THE MACHINE AS A PRINTER 1 - 1 Also, the latest printer driver can use 2 in 1, Watermark (Windows® Only) printing, Color ...
.... Ethernet-Ethernet Interface provides shared communications with your computer. 1 Using the machine as a printer (For Windows®) Using the Brother printer driver A Printer Driver is software that 's empty. Fast Printing Speed-Using Fast mode, you highest resolution. (See Resolution in a high quality ink jet...full color, and up to replace the cartridge that translates data from the Brother Solutions Center at up to get high quality printouts. USING THE MACHINE AS A PRINTER 1 - 1 Also, the latest printer driver can use 2 in 1, Watermark (Windows® Only) printing, Color ...
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...types of paper. If your computer is also connected to any other printers, select Brother MFC-XXXX USB Printer (Where XXXX is very important to select the right type of paper and envelopes. 1 From your printer driver from the paper tray. Printing a document When the machine receives data from your ... menu in your software application, and then click on OK to begin printing. (Windows® only) For Macintosh® users, see Using the Brother printer driver with your Apple® Macintosh® (Mac OS® X) on page 8-4. 2 Your computer sends the data to read About paper in your...
...types of paper. If your computer is also connected to any other printers, select Brother MFC-XXXX USB Printer (Where XXXX is very important to select the right type of paper and envelopes. 1 From your printer driver from the paper tray. Printing a document When the machine receives data from your ... menu in your software application, and then click on OK to begin printing. (Windows® only) For Macintosh® users, see Using the Brother printer driver with your Apple® Macintosh® (Mac OS® X) on page 8-4. 2 Your computer sends the data to read About paper in your...
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...depending on your Apple® Macintosh® (Mac OS® X) on page 8-4. Printer driver settings (Windows® only) For Macintosh® users, see Using the Brother printer driver with your operating system and software applications. ■ The screens shown in this section are ...from the File menu in your application software. 2 Select Brother MFC-XXXX USB Printer (Where XXXX is your Windows® operating ...
...depending on your Apple® Macintosh® (Mac OS® X) on page 8-4. Printer driver settings (Windows® only) For Macintosh® users, see Using the Brother printer driver with your operating system and software applications. ■ The screens shown in this section are ...from the File menu in your application software. 2 Select Brother MFC-XXXX USB Printer (Where XXXX is your Windows® operating ...
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.... ■ Enhance Normal Printing: 750 x 750 dpi. Use this mode only when you select. ■ Highest: Up to 1200 x 6000 dpi. (See Resolution in the driver. This setting may cause some slight blurring of the User's Guide.) Use this mode to print the document. The higher the quality, the longer it...
.... ■ Enhance Normal Printing: 750 x 750 dpi. Use this mode only when you select. ■ Highest: Up to 1200 x 6000 dpi. (See Resolution in the driver. This setting may cause some slight blurring of the User's Guide.) Use this mode to print the document. The higher the quality, the longer it...
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... is not selected, then each page will be printed for the number of copies you selected. If the Collate check box is printed. Paper Tray (MFC-5840CN only) The Paper Tray selection sets the paper tray from which the machine will be printed and then repeated for all the copies selected... Size setting. Collate With the Collate check box selected, one complete copy of your document will feed the paper when printing. Auto allows the printer driver to 999).
... is not selected, then each page will be printed for the number of copies you selected. If the Collate check box is printed. Paper Tray (MFC-5840CN only) The Paper Tray selection sets the paper tray from which the machine will be printed and then repeated for all the copies selected... Size setting. Collate With the Collate check box selected, one complete copy of your document will feed the paper when printing. Auto allows the printer driver to 999).
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... in black and white using gray scale. Generally, text and business graphics are printed vividly and photographic images are printed softly. ■ Auto: The printer driver automatically selects the image type. ■ Photo: Select this mode for photographic images. ■ Graphics: Select this mode. 1 - 16 USING THE MACHINE AS A PRINTER Image...
... in black and white using gray scale. Generally, text and business graphics are printed vividly and photographic images are printed softly. ■ Auto: The printer driver automatically selects the image type. ■ Photo: Select this mode for photographic images. ■ Graphics: Select this mode. 1 - 16 USING THE MACHINE AS A PRINTER Image...
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The default setting for the Status Monitor is on the task tray icon. USING THE MACHINE AS A PRINTER 1 - 23 Status Monitor This reports the ink volume and the printer status (any error that may happen with the printer) when printing. This feature can be set to On or Off from the Device Options. If you to quickly select driver settings. Quick Print Setup The Quick Print Setup feature allows you would like to turn the Status Monitor off, go to the Advanced tab, select Device options and then select Status monitor. To view settings, simply click your mouse button on .
The default setting for the Status Monitor is on the task tray icon. USING THE MACHINE AS A PRINTER 1 - 23 Status Monitor This reports the ink volume and the printer status (any error that may happen with the printer) when printing. This feature can be set to On or Off from the Device Options. If you to quickly select driver settings. Quick Print Setup The Quick Print Setup feature allows you would like to turn the Status Monitor off, go to the Advanced tab, select Device options and then select Status monitor. To view settings, simply click your mouse button on .
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Click the Support tab to the Brother Solutions Center and the Driver Update Web sites. Support tab The Support Tab provides driver version and setting information. Web Update Web Update checks the Brother web site for using your machine. Check Setting The ... following screen: 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 updated drivers, and automatically downloads and updates the printer driver on your current driver settings. 1 ...
Click the Support tab to the Brother Solutions Center and the Driver Update Web sites. Support tab The Support Tab provides driver version and setting information. Web Update Web Update checks the Brother web site for using your machine. Check Setting The ... following screen: 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 updated drivers, and automatically downloads and updates the printer driver on your current driver settings. 1 ...
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... to use it, you can switch TWAIN On from the icon Enable/Disable TWAIN for advances user located in the Start/All Programs/Brother/MFL-Pro Suite MFC-XXXX in your computer. (See TWAIN compliant on page 2-10.) For Windows® 98/98SE/Me and 2000 Professional The machine ... (For Windows® XP only) on page 2-2.) In addition to the WIA driver there is also a TWAIN compliant scanner driver installed. HOW TO SCAN USING WINDOWS® 2 - 1 2 How to scan using Windows® The scanning operations and drivers will be different depending on your applications. (See Scanning a document on page 2-10...
... to use it, you can switch TWAIN On from the icon Enable/Disable TWAIN for advances user located in the Start/All Programs/Brother/MFL-Pro Suite MFC-XXXX in your computer. (See TWAIN compliant on page 2-10.) For Windows® 98/98SE/Me and 2000 Professional The machine ... (For Windows® XP only) on page 2-2.) In addition to the WIA driver there is also a TWAIN compliant scanner driver installed. HOW TO SCAN USING WINDOWS® 2 - 1 2 How to scan using Windows® The scanning operations and drivers will be different depending on your applications. (See Scanning a document on page 2-10...
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Brother Scanner Utility The Brother Scanner Utility is not available for the MFC-3240C, MFC-3340CN and MFC-210C. If you do not have chosen to use the optional TWAIN Driver supported for Windows® XP, follow the description for Windows® 98/98SE/Me and 2000 Professional (See page 2-1 for changing the paper... must restart your file. To run the utility: You can run the utility by selecting the Scanner Utility located in the Start/All Programs/Brother/MFL-Pro Suite MFC-XXXXC menu. (Where XXXX is your computer may be very large. HOW TO SCAN USING WINDOWS® 2 - 9 Please make sure...
Brother Scanner Utility The Brother Scanner Utility is not available for the MFC-3240C, MFC-3340CN and MFC-210C. If you do not have chosen to use the optional TWAIN Driver supported for Windows® XP, follow the description for Windows® 98/98SE/Me and 2000 Professional (See page 2-1 for changing the paper... must restart your file. To run the utility: You can run the utility by selecting the Scanner Utility located in the Start/All Programs/Brother/MFL-Pro Suite MFC-XXXXC menu. (Where XXXX is your computer may be very large. HOW TO SCAN USING WINDOWS® 2 - 9 Please make sure...
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Scanning a document TWAIN compliant The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. These applications include popular programs like Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe® PageMaker®, CorelDraw® and many more. 2 - 10 HOW... only can you scan images directly into the PaperPort® viewer that Brother included with your machine, but you can also scan images directly into hundreds of other software applications that support TWAIN scanning. TWAIN drivers meet the standard universal protocol for communicating between scanners and software applications.
Scanning a document TWAIN compliant The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. These applications include popular programs like Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe® PageMaker®, CorelDraw® and many more. 2 - 10 HOW... only can you scan images directly into the PaperPort® viewer that Brother included with your machine, but you can also scan images directly into hundreds of other software applications that support TWAIN scanning. TWAIN drivers meet the standard universal protocol for communicating between scanners and software applications.
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.... Using the Scan key (For USB cable users) If you must have connected the machine to your Windows® based computer and loaded the appropriate Brother Drivers for your version of Windows®. The advantage of using (Scan), go to the appropriate chapter: ■ For Windows®, see Using the ControlCenter2.0 on...
.... Using the Scan key (For USB cable users) If you must have connected the machine to your Windows® based computer and loaded the appropriate Brother Drivers for your version of Windows®. The advantage of using (Scan), go to the appropriate chapter: ■ For Windows®, see Using the ControlCenter2.0 on...
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... printers. You can access the media card inserted into the machine. PHOTOCAPTURE (not available for MFC-5440CN and MFC-3240C) This section contains three features which you to use the PC and any printer driver for enhanced copy operations. You can configure your PC on the media card into the desktop ... of the PC. allows you can scan the page on the machine and print the copies using any of the features of the machine printer driver-OR-you to copy the files on page 6-1.) ■ Copy From PCC - You can select the destination folder. ■ Copy To Application - enables ...
... printers. You can access the media card inserted into the machine. PHOTOCAPTURE (not available for MFC-5440CN and MFC-3240C) This section contains three features which you to use the PC and any printer driver for enhanced copy operations. You can configure your PC on the media card into the desktop ... of the PC. allows you can scan the page on the machine and print the copies using any of the features of the machine printer driver-OR-you to copy the files on page 6-1.) ■ Copy From PCC - You can select the destination folder. ■ Copy To Application - enables ...
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Before you can enter up to 30 characters in -1 printing. In the Scan setting field you can select the Resolution, Scan Type, Document Size, Brightness and Contrast settings to do advanced copy functions such as N-in the Name for Copy field and select Copy Ratio. COPY The Copy buttons (1-4) can be customized to allow you to take advantage of the features built into the Brother printer drivers to be used. 3 - 20 USING THE CONTROLCENTER2.0 You can use the Copy buttons you must first configure the printer driver by right-clicking on the button.
Before you can enter up to 30 characters in -1 printing. In the Scan setting field you can select the Resolution, Scan Type, Document Size, Brightness and Contrast settings to do advanced copy functions such as N-in the Name for Copy field and select Copy Ratio. COPY The Copy buttons (1-4) can be customized to allow you to take advantage of the features built into the Brother printer drivers to be used. 3 - 20 USING THE CONTROLCENTER2.0 You can use the Copy buttons you must first configure the printer driver by right-clicking on the button.
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Then click the Print options button to display the printer driver settings. In the printer driver settings window you have selected. The Print options screen will vary depending upon which model printer you can be used. You must set the Printer Name. USING THE CONTROLCENTER2.0 3 - 21 Before finishing the Copy button configuration, you must configure each of the copy buttons before they can choose advanced settings for printing.
Then click the Print options button to display the printer driver settings. In the printer driver settings window you have selected. The Print options screen will vary depending upon which model printer you can be used. You must set the Printer Name. USING THE CONTROLCENTER2.0 3 - 21 Before finishing the Copy button configuration, you must configure each of the copy buttons before they can choose advanced settings for printing.
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... avoid banding with typical print speed. 8 - 2 USING YOUR MACHINE WITH A MACINTOSH® Better print quality than Normal mode and faster print speed than in the driver. Only when you have selected Plain Paper or Transparencies, you to print the document. This mode is suitable for your document. Use this mode. ■...
... avoid banding with typical print speed. 8 - 2 USING YOUR MACHINE WITH A MACINTOSH® Better print quality than Normal mode and faster print speed than in the driver. Only when you have selected Plain Paper or Transparencies, you to print the document. This mode is suitable for your document. Use this mode. ■...
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Click Print to start printing. 8 - 4 USING YOUR MACHINE WITH A MACINTOSH® Using the Brother printer driver with your model name) is your Apple® Macintosh® (Mac OS® X) Choosing page setup options 1 From application software such as TextEdit, click the File menu and select Print. Make sure MFC-XXXX (Where XXXX is selected in the Format for Paper Size, Orientation and Scale, then click OK. 2 From application software such as TextEdit, click the File menu and select Page Setup. You can change the settings for pop-up menu.
Click Print to start printing. 8 - 4 USING YOUR MACHINE WITH A MACINTOSH® Using the Brother printer driver with your model name) is your Apple® Macintosh® (Mac OS® X) Choosing page setup options 1 From application software such as TextEdit, click the File menu and select Print. Make sure MFC-XXXX (Where XXXX is selected in the Format for Paper Size, Orientation and Scale, then click OK. 2 From application software such as TextEdit, click the File menu and select Page Setup. You can change the settings for pop-up menu.