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Question posted by tgreene on December 10th, 2012

Connect Interface Cable Error

I have a MFC-8480dn printer, it is hooked up and printing through a network. Everything works great except when i try to scan when i attempt to scan i get error "connect interface cable" it is plug in and lit up green. What else can i do?

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