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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 ...Settings ...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 ...Settings ...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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...need to configure the firewall settings to allow communication through port number 137. Brilliant High Quality Output Printing at : http://solutions.brother.com Features 1 This machine offers many other wireless devices using the IEEE802.11b/g wireless standard in Infrastructure and Ad-hoc modes...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 will find in a high quality ink jet printer. Wireless LAN (IEEE802.11b/g) (For Wireless models ...
...need to configure the firewall settings to allow communication through port number 137. Brilliant High Quality Output Printing at : http://solutions.brother.com Features 1 This machine offers many other wireless devices using the IEEE802.11b/g wireless standard in Infrastructure and Ad-hoc modes...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 will find in a high quality ink jet printer. Wireless LAN (IEEE802.11b/g) (For Wireless models ...
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... Monitor icon appears on the tasktray. A green icon indicates the normal stand-by choosing Status Monitor located in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX on your PC-in the tasktray or on your PC. Printing Status Monitor 1 1 The Status Monitor utility is a configurable software tool... indicates a warning. A red icon indicates an error has occurred. There are two locations where 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. You can display the status monitor on...
... Monitor icon appears on the tasktray. A green icon indicates the normal stand-by choosing Status Monitor located in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX on your PC-in the tasktray or on your PC. Printing Status Monitor 1 1 The Status Monitor utility is a configurable software tool... indicates a warning. A red icon indicates an error has occurred. There are two locations where 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. You can display the status monitor on...
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...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 your model name) and click Properties. Note Even if the status monitor is your application. b Choose Brother MFC-XXXX USB Printer or Brother MFC...
...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 your model name) and click Properties. Note Even if the status monitor is your application. b Choose Brother MFC-XXXX USB Printer or Brother MFC...
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... print speed than Photo. Normal 600 × 600 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 Print Quality Selection Fast, Fast Normal, Normal, Fine Fine, Photo Fine, Photo, Highest .... Highest Up to 1200 × 6000 dpi. (See Resolution in Specifications in bold. • For DCP-130C and MFC-240C, the Highest Print Quality selection is the highest resolution and slowest speed. Photo Up to print the document. Better print...
... print speed than Photo. Normal 600 × 600 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 Print Quality Selection Fast, Fast Normal, Normal, Fine Fine, Photo Fine, Photo, Highest .... Highest Up to 1200 × 6000 dpi. (See Resolution in Specifications in bold. • For DCP-130C and MFC-240C, the Highest Print Quality selection is the highest resolution and slowest speed. Photo Up to print the document. Better print...
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... to display 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. Support tab The Support... settings information. 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
... to display 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. Support tab The Support... settings information. 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
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...PaperPort® SE with your applications. 2 For Windows® XP Two scanner drivers are using. Visit the Brother Solutions Center (http://solutions.brother.com) for communicating between scanners and applications. These applications include popular programs, such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe... 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. Scanning a document using the WIA driver (Windows® XP only) on page...
...PaperPort® SE with your applications. 2 For Windows® XP Two scanner drivers are using. Visit the Brother Solutions Center (http://solutions.brother.com) for communicating between scanners and applications. These applications include popular programs, such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe... 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. Scanning a document using the WIA driver (Windows® XP only) on page...
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... drop-down list. b Click File, then Scan. 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. The Scanner Setup dialog box appears: 23 Or click the... Scan button. Note • For Windows® XP: Choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or TW-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN. • For other software applications. c Choose the scanner you use ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE. Scanning Accessing the Scanner...
... drop-down list. b Click File, then Scan. 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. The Scanner Setup dialog box appears: 23 Or click the... Scan button. Note • For Windows® XP: Choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or TW-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN. • For other software applications. c Choose the scanner you use ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE. Scanning Accessing the Scanner...
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...only) 2 2 WIA compliant 2 For Windows® XP you are based on the left side of the screen. Note • Choose WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (Where XXXX is your software application to scan the document. The Scan dialog box appears: 29 d Click Scan. b Click File, ...then Scan. You can scan images directly into the PaperPort® SE viewer that Brother included with your machine or you choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX, the TWAIN driver will vary when scanning from the Scanner drop-down list. Accessing the scanner 2 a Open your model ...
...only) 2 2 WIA compliant 2 For Windows® XP you are based on the left side of the screen. Note • Choose WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX USB or WIA-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (Where XXXX is your software application to scan the document. The Scan dialog box appears: 29 d Click Scan. b Click File, ...then Scan. You can scan images directly into the PaperPort® SE viewer that Brother included with your machine or you choose TW-Brother MFC-XXXX, the TWAIN driver will vary when scanning from the Scanner drop-down list. Accessing the scanner 2 a Open your model ...
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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. You can be set to a maximum of the scanned picture (3). Scanning e If you want to change some advanced settings, click Adjust the quality of 1200 dpi. The machine starts scanning the document. 31 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.
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. You can be set to a maximum of the scanned picture (3). Scanning e If you want to change some advanced settings, click Adjust the quality of 1200 dpi. The machine starts scanning the document. 31 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.
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Note If you could lose your file. 33 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 dramatically increase. Make sure that ... enough memory and hard disk space 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 scanned and you scan the document at a resolution of the document appears in the Scan dialog box. You must restart...
Note If you could lose your file. 33 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 dramatically increase. Make sure that ... enough memory and hard disk space 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 scanned and you scan the document at a resolution of the document appears in the Scan dialog box. You must restart...
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...the (Scan) key. Before you can scan either a black and white or color document into your word processing, graphics or E-mail applications, to your E-mail application as a file attachment. If you have to install the Brother MFL-Pro software suite and connect the machine to a folder on the control panel... software. (See SCAN on page 49.) For details about how to configure the scan settings and to a media card. d Press Black Start or Color Start. Scanning Using the Scan key (For USB cable users) 2 Note 2 If you use the Scan key on a network, see Using ControlCenter3 ...
...the (Scan) key. Before you can scan either a black and white or color document into your word processing, graphics or E-mail applications, to your E-mail application as a file attachment. If you have to install the Brother MFL-Pro software suite and connect the machine to a folder on the control panel... software. (See SCAN on page 49.) For details about how to configure the scan settings and to a media card. d Press Black Start or Color Start. Scanning Using the Scan key (For USB cable users) 2 Note 2 If you use the Scan key on a network, see Using ControlCenter3 ...
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... and click User's Guide. For more details, see the ScanSoft® user's guide. When you install MFL-Pro Suite, ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE for Brother is installed automatically. You can use PaperPort® SE to view scanned documents. 2 Not just viewing, PaperPort® SE has a sophisticated yet easy-to-use... basic functions of different formats for printing, faxing or filing. Scanning Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE with OCR 2 ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE for Brother is a document management application.
... and click User's Guide. For more details, see the ScanSoft® user's guide. When you install MFL-Pro Suite, ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE for Brother is installed automatically. You can use PaperPort® SE to view scanned documents. 2 Not just viewing, PaperPort® SE has a sophisticated yet easy-to-use... basic functions of different formats for printing, faxing or filing. Scanning Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE with OCR 2 ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE for Brother is a document management application.
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... 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 the Brother Solutions Center by clicking the Configuration button. (8) 44 Custom Scan buttons let you quickly and easily access your often used applications. Using ControlCenter3 eliminates the...
... 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 the Brother Solutions Center by clicking the Configuration button. (8) 44 Custom Scan buttons let you quickly and easily access your often used applications. Using ControlCenter3 eliminates the...
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...PC-FAX Receive option, you must select the PC-FAX Receive option from your Brother machine. Before using the Brother PC-FAX software. (See PC-FAX sending on page 76.) Receive (Not available for MFC-240C and MFC-3360C) By clicking this button, the PC-FAX receive software is activated and ...PC starts receiving fax data from the control panel menu 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...
...PC-FAX Receive option, you must select the PC-FAX Receive option from your Brother machine. Before using the Brother PC-FAX software. (See PC-FAX sending on page 76.) Receive (Not available for MFC-240C and MFC-3360C) By clicking this button, the PC-FAX receive software is activated and ...PC starts receiving fax data from the control panel menu 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...
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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. You can change the Send settings, right-click the Send button and click ControlCenter Configuration. 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 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. You can change the Send settings, right-click the Send button and click ControlCenter Configuration. 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 Resolution, Scan Type, Document Size, Show Scanner Interface, Brightness and Contrast settings. 63
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... select the PC-FAX Receive option 3 from your PC. It is activated and starts to receive fax data from the control panel menu of the Brother machine. (See Running the PC-FAX Receiving software on your PC on page 91.) To configure the PC-FAX Receive software, see Setting up your... PC on page 91. ControlCenter3 Receive/View Received (Not available for MFC-240C and MFC-3360C) 3 The Brother PC-FAX Receiving software option lets you view and store your faxes on your...
... select the PC-FAX Receive option 3 from your PC. It is activated and starts to receive fax data from the control panel menu of the Brother machine. (See Running the PC-FAX Receiving software on your PC on page 91.) To configure the PC-FAX Receive software, see Setting up your... PC on page 91. ControlCenter3 Receive/View Received (Not available for MFC-240C and MFC-3360C) 3 The Brother PC-FAX Receiving software option lets you view and store your faxes on your...