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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 Monitoring the machine's status ...4 Turning off ......6 Media Type...7 Quality ...7 Enhanced Print 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...
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 Monitoring the machine's status ...4 Turning off ......6 Media Type...7 Quality ...7 Enhanced Print 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...
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... Faxing Setting up your USB-equipped Apple® 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...
... Faxing Setting up your USB-equipped Apple® 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...
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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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...Brother printer driver 1 A printer driver translates the data from your machine communicate with the machine. You can be understood by the printer/multi-function device. Fast Printing Speed See the User's Guide for Wireless Network Standard models only. 2 This feature is available for the rated print speeds of a particular ink color...The Ethernet interface lets your PC application, and using the IEEE802.11b/g wireless standard in 1, Watermark printing, Color Enhancement technology and many features you only have to replace the empty cartridge. USB Universal Serial Bus ...
...Brother printer driver 1 A printer driver translates the data from your machine communicate with the machine. You can be understood by the printer/multi-function device. Fast Printing Speed See the User's Guide for Wireless Network Standard models only. 2 This feature is available for the rated print speeds of a particular ink color...The Ethernet interface lets your PC application, and using the IEEE802.11b/g wireless standard in 1, Watermark printing, Color Enhancement technology and many features you only have to replace the empty cartridge. USB Universal Serial Bus ...
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...from your PC while sending or receiving a fax in the User's Guide. 3 Checking the print quality 1 If you can print from the memory 1 If the LCD shows Data Remaining, you want to check the print quality and find out how to improve it is important to read About paper in the memory... by pressing the Stop/Exit key on paper, it pauses the PC printing operation, and then continues printing when copying or fax receiving has finished. Simultaneous printing, scanning and faxing 1 Your machine can clear the data that is copying or receiving a fax on the...
...from your PC while sending or receiving a fax in the User's Guide. 3 Checking the print quality 1 If you can print from the memory 1 If the LCD shows Data Remaining, you want to check the print quality and find out how to improve it is important to read About paper in the memory... by pressing the Stop/Exit key on paper, it pauses the PC printing operation, and then continues printing when copying or fax receiving has finished. Simultaneous printing, scanning and faxing 1 Your machine can clear the data that is copying or receiving a fax on the...
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... 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 by condition. A yellow icon indicates ...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 ...device status at anytime by double-clicking the icon in the tasktray or on your PC. Printing Status Monitor 1 1 The Status Monitor utility is a configurable software tool for monitoring the...
... 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 by condition. A yellow icon indicates ...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 ...device status at anytime by double-clicking the icon in the tasktray or on your PC. Printing Status Monitor 1 1 The Status Monitor utility is a configurable software tool for monitoring the...
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.../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 application. b Choose Brother MFC-XXXX USB Printer or Brother MFC-XXXX Printer (where XXXX is off, you can change...
.../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 application. b Choose Brother MFC-XXXX USB Printer or Brother MFC-XXXX Printer (where XXXX is off, you can change...
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... Size, Page Layout, Page Order, Borderless, Border Line (if any), Orientation, number of Quality, Paper Size, Page Layout, Page Order, Orientation, Collate/Reverse Order and Color/Grayscale. 6 c Select the Paper Source. (MFC-5860CN only) Note If you choose Auto Select, the machine will pull paper from Tray 1 and when Tray 1 is... (2). d Click OK (3) to the default settings, click Default (4), then OK (3). This setting may cause some slight blurring of text. Note Check Slow Drying Paper when printing with plain paper on which ink dries slowly. Basic tab...
... Size, Page Layout, Page Order, Borderless, Border Line (if any), Orientation, number of Quality, Paper Size, Page Layout, Page Order, Orientation, Collate/Reverse Order and Color/Grayscale. 6 c Select the Paper Source. (MFC-5860CN only) Note If you choose Auto Select, the machine will pull paper from Tray 1 and when Tray 1 is... (2). d Click OK (3) to the default settings, click Default (4), then OK (3). This setting may cause some slight blurring of text. Note Check Slow Drying Paper when printing with plain paper on which ink dries slowly. Basic tab...
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... the highest resolution and slowest speed. Photo Up to print the document. This is not available if you choose the print resolution. 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...
... the highest resolution and slowest speed. Photo Up to print the document. This is not available if you choose the print resolution. 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...
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... image to see options for enhanced print settings. Color Enhancement (True2Life®) 1 Checking Color Enhancement (True2Life®) option enables the True2Life® feature. Printing 1 1 Bi-Directional Printing 1 When Bi-Directional Printing is checked, the print head prints in one direction giving higher quality printouts, but slower printing speeds. This feature analyzes your PC. 8 Enhanced Print Settings Click the Settings button to...
... image to see options for enhanced print settings. Color Enhancement (True2Life®) 1 Checking Color Enhancement (True2Life®) option enables the True2Life® feature. Printing 1 1 Bi-Directional Printing 1 When Bi-Directional Printing is checked, the print head prints in one direction giving higher quality printouts, but slower printing speeds. This feature analyzes your PC. 8 Enhanced Print Settings Click the Settings button to...
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Printing 1 Color Density Adjusts the total amount of color in an image to improve a washed out or weak looking picture. White Balance Adjusts the hue of the white areas of an image. Lighting, camera settings and other color. The white areas of a picture may be slightly pink, yellow ...appearance of the whole image. Increase the contrast when you can increase or decrease the amount of individual picture settings to improve the printed image and analyzes data from surrounding or neighboring pixels in the image to be clearer. Decrease the contrast when you cannot see the...
Printing 1 Color Density Adjusts the total amount of color in an image to improve a washed out or weak looking picture. White Balance Adjusts the hue of the white areas of an image. Lighting, camera settings and other color. The white areas of a picture may be slightly pink, yellow ...appearance of the whole image. Increase the contrast when you can increase or decrease the amount of individual picture settings to improve the printed image and analyzes data from surrounding or neighboring pixels in the image to be clearer. Decrease the contrast when you cannot see the...
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...for specific paper sizes. 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. Choose the correct paper thickness to improve the quality of the 1...Width and Height values, and enter any name you want , you want to 8.5 × 14 in . (88.9 × 127.0 mm) to print such as Letter (borderless). 10 Paper Size 1 The Paper Size selection includes a large selection of paper you can create a custom size ranging from the...
...for specific paper sizes. 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. Choose the correct paper thickness to improve the quality of the 1...Width and Height values, and enter any name you want , you want to 8.5 × 14 in . (88.9 × 127.0 mm) to print such as Letter (borderless). 10 Paper Size 1 The Paper Size selection includes a large selection of paper you can create a custom size ranging from the...
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...Note If you choose the N in 1 options or the 1 in N options. Orientation 1 Orientation chooses the position your print size and prints the document in poster print mode. The N in 1 options print 2, 4, 9 or 16 pages of paper. The 1 in N options enlarges your document will be selected from the ...drop-down menu. Border Line 1 When printing multiple pages on 1 sheet of a document on one sheet with the Page Layout feature, you use the one in the application. 11 Printing Page Layout 1 1 The Page Layout option lets you are using Windows®...
...Note If you choose the N in 1 options or the 1 in N options. Orientation 1 Orientation chooses the position your print size and prints the document in poster print mode. The N in 1 options print 2, 4, 9 or 16 pages of paper. The 1 in N options enlarges your document will be selected from the ...drop-down menu. Border Line 1 When printing multiple pages on 1 sheet of a document on one sheet with the Page Layout feature, you use the one in the application. 11 Printing Page Layout 1 1 The Page Layout option lets you are using Windows®...
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... (MFC-5860CN only) 1 The Paper Source selection sets the paper tray from Tray 2 if both trays are using paper that will be printed (1 to the number of copies chosen before the next page of your document will take paper from which the machine will feed the paper ... Order 1 Reverse Order prints the pages of the document is unchecked, then each page will be printed and then reprinted according to the number of copies you choose Auto Select, the machine will be printed according to 999). 1 1 Collate 1 With Collate checked, one complete copy of your document in Tray 2. • ...
... (MFC-5860CN only) 1 The Paper Source selection sets the paper tray from Tray 2 if both trays are using paper that will be printed (1 to the number of copies chosen before the next page of your document will take paper from which the machine will feed the paper ... Order 1 Reverse Order prints the pages of the document is unchecked, then each page will be printed and then reprinted according to the number of copies you choose Auto Select, the machine will be printed according to 999). 1 1 Collate 1 With Collate checked, one complete copy of your document in Tray 2. • ...
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Advanced tab Change the tab settings by clicking one of the following icons: 123 4 Printing 1 1 Color (1) Scaling (2) Watermark (3) Device Options (4) Note To return to the default settings, click Default. 13
Advanced tab Change the tab settings by clicking one of the following icons: 123 4 Printing 1 1 Color (1) Scaling (2) Watermark (3) Device Options (4) Note To return to the default settings, click Default. 13
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... art). Custom If you want to be printed in black and white using grayscale. Printing 1 1 1 Image Type 1 The printer driver will choose the most suitable color matching and half tone method, depending on your image type. Color Color/Grayscale This selection allows a color document to choose the color matching and halftone method, choose this mode. 14
... art). Custom If you want to be printed in black and white using grayscale. Printing 1 1 1 Image Type 1 The printer driver will choose the most suitable color matching and half tone method, depending on your image type. Color Color/Grayscale This selection allows a color document to choose the color matching and halftone method, choose this mode. 14
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Choose the best one for your document. 1 1 Match Monitor Color is adjusted to print more natural colors. • Vivid: Use for photographic images. Printing Custom Image Type You can choose the color matching method manually. The color is adjusted to print more vivid colors. 15 The color is adjusted to get the closest color match with the PC monitor. • Natural: Use for business graphics such as charts, graphics and text.
Choose the best one for your document. 1 1 Match Monitor Color is adjusted to print more natural colors. • Vivid: Use for photographic images. Printing Custom Image Type You can choose the color matching method manually. The color is adjusted to print more vivid colors. 15 The color is adjusted to get the closest color match with the PC monitor. • Natural: Use for business graphics such as charts, graphics and text.
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Use for printing photographs that have definite color boundaries or for printing charts such as business charts. Note Mirror Printing is not available when you choose Transparencies as it appears on your screen. Choose Fit to Paper Size if your document has an unusual ... the Scaling feature. Choose Off if you can use for printing graphics that have standard size paper. Choose Free if you want to print the document as the Media Type. 16 Printing Halftone Pattern The machine can choose which one to use two methods (Diffusion or Dither) to arrange dots to...
Use for printing photographs that have definite color boundaries or for printing charts such as business charts. Note Mirror Printing is not available when you choose Transparencies as it appears on your screen. Choose Fit to Paper Size if your document has an unusual ... the Scaling feature. Choose Off if you can use for printing graphics that have standard size paper. Choose Free if you want to print the document as the Media Type. 16 Printing Halftone Pattern The machine can choose which one to use two methods (Diffusion or Dither) to arrange dots to...
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... only From second page Custom 17 You can print the watermark in the background of the preset Watermarks, or you have created. Print Watermark 1 You can choose one of your document. If this feature is unchecked, the Watermark will be printed on top of the watermark. In Outline Text (Windows® 2000...
... only From second page Custom 17 You can print the watermark in the background of the preset Watermarks, or you have created. Print Watermark 1 You can choose one of your document. If this feature is unchecked, the Watermark will be printed on top of the watermark. In Outline Text (Windows® 2000...
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... title or enter a title you like in the field. Watermark Text Enter your watermark text into the Text Box, and then choose Font, Size, Color and Style. Watermark Bitmap Enter the file name and location of your bitmap image in the File box, or click Browse to control the... position of the image. Position Use this setting if you want to search for the file. Printing Watermark Setting 1 You can also set the scaling size of the watermark on the page by choosing the watermark, and clicking the 1 Edit button. You...
... title or enter a title you like in the field. Watermark Text Enter your watermark text into the Text Box, and then choose Font, Size, Color and Style. Watermark Bitmap Enter the file name and location of your bitmap image in the File box, or click Browse to control the... position of the image. Position Use this setting if you want to search for the file. Printing Watermark Setting 1 You can also set the scaling size of the watermark on the page by choosing the watermark, and clicking the 1 Edit button. You...