Brother MFC 8700 manual

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© 1996 – 1999 Brother Industries, Ltd. If Y ou Need to Call Customer Service Please complete the following information for future reference: Model Number:* MFC 8600 MFC 8700 (Circle your model number) Serial Number:** __________________________________________ Date of Purchase: __________________________________________ Place of Purchase: ______[...]

i Br other Number s Br other fax-bac k system Brother Customer Service has installed an easy-to-use fax-back system, so you can get instant answers to common technical questions and product information for all Brother products. This system is available 24 hours a day , 7 days a week. Y ou can use the system to send faxes to any fax machine, not jus[...]

ii ORDERING ACCESSORIES AND SUPPLIES Or dering Accessories and Supplies For best quality results use only genuine Brother accessories, available at most Brother retailers. If you cannot find the accessory you need and you have a V isa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express credit card, you can order accessories directly from Brother . (In the US[...]

iii Notice – Disc laimer of W arranties (For USA and Canada) BROTHER’S LICENSOR(S), AND THEIR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS (COLLECTIVEL Y BROTHER’S LICENSOR) MAKE NO W ARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMIT A TION THE IMPLIED W ARRANTIES OF MERCHANT ABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A P AR TICULAR PURPOSE, REGARDING THE SOFT[...]

iv TRADEMARKS Compilation and Publication Notice Under the supervision of Brother Industries Ltd., this manual has been compiled and published, covering the latest product descriptions and specifications. The contents of this manual and the specifications of this product are subject to change without notice. Brother reserves the right to make chang[...]

TABLE OF CONTENTS v 2 2 1 1 T ab le of Contents 3 3 WALK-UP VIDEO PRINTING ....................................................... 1-1 Introduction ....................................................................................... 1-1 Getting Started ................................................................................... 1-1 Settin[...]

TABLE OF CONTENTS vi 4 4 Global Settings ............................................................................ 3-5 Setting Up the Scanner Configurations ...................................... 3-5 T o access the Scanner Configurations screen: ............................ 3-5 Perform an Operation from the Control Center Screen .............. 3[...]

TABLE OF CONTENTS vii 6 6 USING SCANSOFT ™ PAPERPOR T ® FOR BROTHER AND SCANSOFT™ TEXTBRIDGE ® ................................................. 5-1 V iewing Items in ScanSoft ™ PaperPort ® for Brother .................. 5-2 Organizing Y our Items in Folders ............................................... 5-2 Links to Many Other Applicatio[...]

TABLE OF CONTENTS viii 9 9 Brother HL-6/6V/10h/630series/660series/960/1260/WL-660: . .. 8- 5 HP LaserJet series II, IID, IIP , IIP+, III, IIID or IIIP: ................. 8-6 HP LaserJet 4 Plus: ............................................................... 8-6 NEC SuperScript 610/660: ................................................... 8-6 EPSON [...]

W ALK-UP VIDEO PRINTING 1 - 1 Intr oduction W alk-Up V ideo Printing lets you use your Brother machine (connected to your camcorder , digital camera, video game, or VCR) to capture a video frame on the attached equipment and print it on your MFC. The video signal and the output you create are NTSC (National T elevision System Committee). They are n[...]

WALK-UP VIDEO PRINTING 1 - 2 Blac k and White Video Printing 1 W ith no documents in the feeder , plug the cable from your video camera’ s V ideo Out jack into the Brother machine’ s RCA pin jack. 2 Play the video. When the Brother machine begins receiving the video signals, the machine’ s screen displays VIDEO:PRESS COPY CAPTURE READY 3 P[...]

W ALK-UP VIDEO PRINTING 1 - 3 Setting Video Printing Quality 1 Press F unctio n , 3 , 1 . The screen displays 1. QUALITY . 2 Press or to select a quality QUALITY :NORMAL QUALITY :HIGH and press Set . 3 Press St op to exit. Setting Video T ype Before you turn on the video signal, you must set the Brother machine to receive either a moving or a still[...]

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SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC 2 - 1 2 2 Using Br other Machine with Y our PC Multi-Function Link ® Pro software (MFL Pro) turns your Brother machine into a multi-function center , by enabling you to use your fax machine as a printer and a scanner and to use it to fax from W indows ® applications in your computer . The MFC 8600 is a 6 in1 multi-fu[...]

SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC 2 - 2 Computer Requirements The following are the minimum computer requirements you need to set up and operate the MFC as a printer . CPU 80486/66MHz or higher (W indows ® 3.1 x or 95/98) Pentium 75 or Higher (W indows ® 98 or W indows NT ® W orkstation V ersion 4.0) RAM 8MB or greater for W indows ® 3.1 x 8MB or g[...]

SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC 2 - 3 2 Connect the USB cable to both the MFC and the PC. 3 T urn on your PC. 4 When the Add New Hardware W izard screen appears, click Next . 5 Select (Recommended ) and click Next .[...]

SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC 2 - 4 Installing Brother Software Using a US B Cable 1 Insert the MFL Pro CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. 2 Select Specify a location and remove the other check marks, then click Browse to locate the file. 3 Double-click on the CD icon and click on the Win98usb folder , then click OK . 4 Select Specify a location and cl[...]

SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC 2 - 5 5 Select (Recommended) and click Next . 6 Confirm the choice is Brother MFC USB Composite Device and click Next . If the Insert Disk W izard appears, remove the MFL CD-ROM and insert the Windows 98 CD-ROM (to get the W indows ® standard driver) and click OK . 7 (If you inserted the W indows 98 CD-ROM , remove th[...]

SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC 2 - 6 8 After the MFC USB Composite Device is installed and the Add New Hardware W izard reappears, click Next . 9 Select (Recommended) and click Next . 10 Select Specify a location and click Next .[...]

SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC 2 - 7 11 Confirm the choice is Brother MFC USB Port(FaxModem) and click Next . 12 When the Add New Hardware W izard displays the message that installation of the FaxModem and its USB driver is completed, click Finish . Repeat Steps 8 to 12 two more times (for the Scanner Driver , then Printer Driver). 13 After the USB [...]

SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC 2 - 8 14 T ype Brother MFL Pro Printer II as the name of Printer name and click Next . 15 Select Ye s (Recommended) to print a T est Page and click Finish . 16 After test page has printed, click Y es .[...]

SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC 2 - 9 17 When the Add New Hardware W izard displays the message that the software (drivers for FaxModem, Scanner and Printer) have been installed, click Finish . 18 When the Main Menu appears, you can install the Multi-Function Link ® Pro software, which includes PaperPort ® , T extBridge, True T ype Fonts and other [...]

SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC 2 - 10 Using the Bundled P arallel Cable to Connect Br other Machine to PC Y ou must connect the Brother machine to your computer with the included bi-directional IEEE-1284 compliant parallel cable. 1 Make sure to unplug the machine’ s power cord from the electrical outlet before connecting the parallel interface cab[...]

SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC 2 - 11 Choosing the Software to Install Install Multi-Function Link ® Pr o If you want the MFL Pro set of software: Multi-Function Link ® Pro, PaperPort ® , including ScanSoft™ T extBridge ® , and Brother scanner driver , printer drivers and T rue T ype Compatible fonts, install: ■ Install Multi-Function Link ?[...]

SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC 2 - 12 Installing the Br other Software (For P arallel Interface) IMPORT ANT T o install the software using W indows NT ® W orkstation V ersion 4.0, you must be logged on as the Administrator . After Multi-Function Link ® Pro is installed, restart W indows NT ® a second time and again log in as the Administrator , s[...]

SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC 2 - 13 If you are using W indows NT ® 3.51 or earlier , the following error message will appear on the screen: Y ou ar e running W indows NT ® 3.51 or earlier . Brother MFL Pr o does not support this version of W indows NT ® . YOU MUST UPGRADE TO WINDOWS NT 4.0 AND REINST ALL MFL Pr o!! If you are using W indows NT [...]

SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC 2 - 14 The On-Line Documentation window appears: 5 In the On-Line Documentation window , click on “Install Acrobat Reader” and follow the prompts on the screen. Y ou must install Acrobat Reader before you can view on-line documentation. Helpful Hints f or Windows ® 3.1 x or Windows ® 95/98 ■ For W indows ® 3.1[...]

USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER 3 - 1 3 3 Using the W indows ® -Based Br other Contr ol Center (F or Windows ® 95/98 and NT ® 4.0 Only) Br other Contr ol Center The Brother Control Center is a software utility that pops up on the PC screen whenever paper is placed in the automatic document feeder . This allows you to quite easily , with very few mo[...]

USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER 3 - 2 AutoLoad the Br other Contr ol Center The Control Center is initially configured to automatically load each time W indows ® is started. When the Control Center is loaded the Control Center icon will appear in the task bar . If you don’t want the Control Center to load automatically , you can turn AutoLoad off. [...]

USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER 3 - 3 Br other Contr ol Center Features A uto Configuration During the installation process the Control Center checks your system to determine the default applications for E-mail, word processing and graphics viewer/editor . For example, if you are using Outlook as your default E-mail application, the Control Center aut[...]

USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER 3 - 4 Scan to Graphic Application—allows you to scan a page directly into any graphic viewer/editor application. Y ou can select the destination application, such as MS Paint or Corel PhotoPaint. Copy Operations Copy —allows you to use the PC and any W indows ® printer driver for enhanced copy functions. Y ou can s[...]

USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER 3 - 5 Global Settings AutoLoad Pop-Up —Click this checkbox if you want Brother MFL Control Center to load when you boot your computer . Setting Up the Scanner Configurations The Pop-Up application stores eight different scanning modes. Each time you scan a document, you will choose the most appropriate scanning mode f[...]

USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER 3 - 6 P erf orm an Operation fr om the Contr ol Center Screen If you see this screen it means you left-clicked a button in the Control Center window without first placing a document in the feeder . Place a document in the Brother machine’ s feeder , then click OK to return to the Control Center screen. Scan to File Sc[...]

USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER 3 - 7 File —If you selected Other Folder , from the pull-down list select the type of file: PaperPort Files (*.MAX) Self V iewing Files (*.EXE) PaperPort 5.0 Files (*.MAX) PaperPort 4.0 Files (*.MAX) PaperPort 3.0 Files (*.MAX) W indows Bitmap (*.BMP) PC Paintbrush (*.PCX) Multi-page PCX (*.DCX) JPEG Image Files (*.JP[...]

USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER 3 - 8 Send Scan to E-mail Scanner Settings From the pull-down list, select the scanning mode that is appropriate for the type of file: Faxing, Filing and Copying; T ext for OCR; Photos; Photos (High Quality); Photos (Quick Scan); Custom; Draft Copy or Fine Copy . T o change any of the settings for that mode, click the M[...]

USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER 3 - 9 File Attachments Do not convert files —Click this checkbox if you do not want to change the file type of attachments. The Conversion Options will not be available (grayed). Convert MAX files only —Click this checkbox if you want to convert only attachments that are PaperPort files. Convert all files when possi[...]

USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER 3 - 10 Highlight the name(s) you want to add to your list, click the User button, then click OK to return to the Link Preference window . From the Link Preference window , you can remove a name from the QuickSend list, highlight the name and clicking the Delete button. Send Scan to W ord Pr ocessor Scanner Settings From[...]

USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER 3 - 11 W ord Pr ocessor W ord Pr ocessor —From the pull-down list, select the word processor you want to use. Click the Link Settings… button to display a screen to set up a link to the version of OCR and document format that you want to use: OCR Package —From the pull-down list, select T extBridge Classic OCR if [...]

USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER 3 - 12 User Defined Button Scanner Settings From the pull-down list, select the scanning mode that is appropriate for the type of file: Faxing, Filing and Copying; T ext for OCR; Photos; Photos (High Quality); Photos (Quick Scan); Custom; Draft Copy or Fine Copy . T o change any of the settings for that mode, click the [...]

USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER 3 - 13 Scanner Settings From the pull-down list, select the scanning mode that is appropriate for the type of file: Faxing, Filing and Copying; T ext for OCR; Photos; Photos (High Quality); Photos (Quick Scan); Custom; Draft Copy or Fine Copy . T o change any of the settings for that mode, click the Modify Settings… b[...]

USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER 3 - 14 F AX Settings Brother MFL Pro Fax F AX Resolution —Click the pull-down arrow to choose the fax resolution you want: • Standard (200x100) • Fine (200x200) • SuperFine (200x400) T o change the fax options, click the F AX Options… button. Click the OK button when you are ready to save your F AX settings. T[...]

USING MUL TI-FUNCTION LINK ® PRO 4 - 1 4 4 Using Multi-Function Link ® Pro Intr oduction This chapter outlines the basics of the Brother software, so you can get started using the Multi-Function Link ® Pro ( MFL Pro ) software. Detailed installation and setup instructions are in the On-Line Documentation section of the Brother CD-ROM. Check the [...]

USING MUL TI-FUNCTION LINK ® PRO 4 - 2 Multi-Function Link ® Pr o Main Menu The Multi-Function Link ® Pro Main Menu is the application used for all fax sending and receiving operations. It also contains an electronic Phone Book program and a Log Manager that maintains a record of all PC fax transactions. The Main Menu can be accessed through the[...]

USING MUL TI-FUNCTION LINK ® PRO 4 - 3 MFC Remote Setup The MFC Remote Setup application allows you to quickly set up your MFC by taking advantage of the ease and speed of programming on your PC. When you access this application, the settings on your MFC will be downloaded automatically to your PC and displayed on your computer screen. If you chan[...]

USING MUL TI-FUNCTION LINK ® PRO 4 - 4 Sending a F ax fr om Y our PC Sending a Quick F ax A QuickFax is a cover page only fax with a message. This option is very useful when you want to fax a quick, short message from your PC. 1 From the Main Menu, select the QuickFax button —OR— Select QuickFax from the Start pull-down menu. The QuickFax scre[...]

USING MUL TI-FUNCTION LINK ® PRO 4 - 5 Sending a F ax fr om a Windows ® Application Y ou can send a fax directly from any W indows ® application using the following steps: 1 Create the document in a W indows ® application. 2 Select Brother MFL Pr o Fax as your printer . 3 Select the Print command to begin the fax transmission. The Fax Sending d[...]

USING MUL TI-FUNCTION LINK ® PRO 4 - 6 Receiving F axes into PC T o receive faxes into your PC through the MFC, you must first have connected your Brother machine to your computer . Then, you can load the software. (See Chapter 2, Setting Up Br other Machine and PC to W ork T ogether .) Before Y ou Begin Use the following checklists for the Brothe[...]

5 - 1 USING SCANSOFT ™ PAPERPOR T ® AND TEXTBRIDGE ® 5 Using ScanSoft ™ PaperPort ® for Brother and ScanSoft ™ T extBridge ® PaperPort ® for Brother is a document management application. Y ou will use PaperPort ® to view incoming faxes and scanned documents. PaperPort ® has a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use, filing system that will help[...]

USING SCANSOFT ™ PAPERPOR T ® AND TEXTBRIDGE ® 5 - 2 For W indows ® 3.1 x : In the PaperPort ® program group, click the Uninstall icon and follow the instructions on the screen. Viewing Items in ScanSoft ™ P aperP or t ® for Br other PaperPort ® provides several ways to view items: Desktop V iew displays a thumbnail , a small graphic that[...]

5 - 3 USING SCANSOFT ™ PAPERPOR T ® AND TEXTBRIDGE ® ■ When you double-click a folder , its items (both PaperPort ® MAX files and other files) appear on the Desktop. ■ Y ou can also use W indows ® Explorer to manage the folders and items shown in Desktop V iew . Links to Man y Other Applications PaperPort ® automatically recognizes many [...]

USING SCANSOFT ™ PAPERPOR T ® AND TEXTBRIDGE ® 5 - 4 Dragging an item onto a word-processing link icon starts PaperPort ® ’s built-in OCR application, or you can use your own OCR application. Impor ting Items fr om Other Applications In addition to scanning items, you can bring items into PaperPort ® in a variety of ways and convert them to[...]

5 - 5 USING SCANSOFT ™ PAPERPOR T ® AND TEXTBRIDGE ® Accessing the Scanner T o choose the Brother Multi-Function Link ® Pro as your scanner driver, select it under the “Select scanner” —OR— “Select source” option in your software. From the PaperPort ® window , select Acquire from the File drop-down menu or select the TW AIN or Sca[...]

USING SCANSOFT ™ PAPERPOR T ® AND TEXTBRIDGE ® 5 - 6 Settings in the Scanner Window Image Resolution Resolution: Select the scanning resolution from the Resolution drop down list. Higher resolutions take more memory and transfer time, but can achieve a finer scanned image. When the setting is T rue Gray , 200 x 100 dpi and 200 x 400 dpi is not [...]

5 - 7 USING SCANSOFT ™ PAPERPOR T ® AND TEXTBRIDGE ® Contrast The contrast setting is adjustable only when you have selected one of the gray scale settings, but it is not available when Black & White is selected as the gray Scale. Increasing the contrast level (by dragging the slidebar to the right) emphasizes dark and light areas of the Im[...]

USING SCANSOFT ™ PAPERPOR T ® AND TEXTBRIDGE ® 5 - 8 PreScanning an Image PreScanning allows you to scan an image quickly at a low resolution. A thumbnail version of the image will appear in the Scanning Area. This is only a preview of the image so you can see how it will look. The PreScan button is used to preview an image for cropping any unw[...]

5 - 9 USING SCANSOFT ™ PAPERPOR T ® AND TEXTBRIDGE ® Video Capture fr om the PC V ideo Capture is the process of isolating a single frame (or picture) from media played on video equipment (such as a video camera or VCR) and then converting that frame into an image file on your PC. Once the frame is an image file, it can be saved, printed, faxed[...]

USING SCANSOFT ™ PAPERPOR T ® AND TEXTBRIDGE ® 5 - 10 Capturing An Image Connect the video equipment to your Brother machine. (See page 4-9.) Y ou can access Multi-Function Link ® Pro’ s TW AIN dialog box from the PaperPort ® V iewer or from any application that is compatible with TW AIN scanning devices. T o capture a frame as an image: 1 [...]

5 - 11 USING SCANSOFT ™ PAPERPOR T ® AND TEXTBRIDGE ® 4 Select the Source of the video: ■ Live Camera ■ T ape/VCR ■ Laser Disc ® ■ Digital Camera 5 Select the T ype of video: ■ Auto-is the most common choice, since the system will determine the T ype for you. ■ Moving ■ Still ■ High Quality ■ Pro Quality-is the highest qualit[...]

USING SCANSOFT ™ PAPERPOR T ® AND TEXTBRIDGE ® 5 - 12[...]

USING AUT OMA TIC E-MAIL PRINTING 6 - 1 6 6 For Windo ws ® 95/98 Only Main Features ■ Y ou can use Automatic E-Mail Printing with other E-mail software: Brother Automatic E-Mail Printing has some extra functions that other E- mail software, such as Netscape Navigator TM or MS Internet Mail, do not support. ■ Automatic E-Mail Printing can be co[...]

USING AUTOMA TIC E-MAIL PRINTING 6 - 2 T o Look for Software Updates at www .brother .com 1 Select your country and click Go!! 2 Under Facsimile / Multi-Function / Phone System banner , click Software . 3 Click W indows 3.1 / 95 / 98 / NT 4.0 . 4 Select the application or product category you want. T o Access the On-Line Documentation After you hav[...]

7 - 1 F AXING WITH NETCENTRIC ™ F AXSTORM 7 Using Internet Faxing with NetCentric ™ FaxStorm Internet F axing (For Windo ws ® 3.1 / 95/98 /NT ® 4.0 Onl y) Internet faxing (NetCentric FaxStorm) brings together the power of the PC and the economy of the Internet. Outgoing faxes are relayed from your desktop to a network provider ’ s fax serve[...]

F AXING WITH NETCENTRIC ™ F AXSTORM 7 - 2 T o Look for Software Updates at www .brother .com 1 Select your country and click Go!! 2 Under Facsimile / Multi-Function / Phone System banner , click Software . 3 Click W indows 3.1 / 95 / 98 / NT 4.0 . 4 Select the application or product category you want. T o Access the On-Line Documentation After yo[...]

TROUBLESHOOTING WINDOWS ® SOFTW ARE DIFFICUL TIES 8 - 1 8 8 If Y ou Are Having Difficulty Check the table below and follow the software troubleshooting tips. T r oubleshooting W indows ® Softwar e Difficulties DIFFICUL TY SUGGESTIONS Error Message “New You can select “Do not install a driver (Windows ® Hardware Found will not prompt you agai[...]

TROUBLESHOOTING WINDOWS ® SOFTW ARE DIFFICUL TIES 8 - 2 DOS Setup Printing Difficulties DIFFICUL TY SUGGESTIONS I cannot print from Check that the DOS application software interface my application settings match those of your printer: for example, if software. you are using a parallel printer cable, you would probably set your DOS software printer[...]

TROUBLESHOOTING WINDOWS ® SOFTW ARE DIFFICUL TIES 8 - 3 Paper Handling Difficulties Video Capture DIFFICUL TY SUGGESTIONS “Unable to write to 1. Make sure the MFC is on (plugged into the AC LPT1” or “LPT1 outlet) and that is connected directly to the already in use” error computer using the bundled IEEE-1284 message appears. bi-directional[...]

TROUBLESHOOTING WINDOWS ® SOFTW ARE DIFFICUL TIES 8 - 4 Difficulties Setting up the Software (For Windows ® 3.1x Users) Prob lem Using the HP P avilion PC and the “HP DEMO” Screen Saver If you select the “HP Demo” screen saver on your HP Pavilion PC after you have installed the Multi-Function Link ® Pro software, the System.ini file is o[...]

TROUBLESHOOTING WINDOWS ® SOFTW ARE DIFFICUL TIES 8 - 5 Machine Connect F ailure or Bi-Directional Comm unication Err or Recently , some printers have included a function to show the printer status on the PC display . Such printers use the bi-directional communication parallel port between the printer and the PC. Our machines have a bi- directiona[...]

TROUBLESHOOTING WINDOWS ® SOFTW ARE DIFFICUL TIES 8 - 6 HP LaserJet series II, IID, IIP , IIP+, III, IIID or IIIP: If Microsoft W indows ® Printing System is used for the above models, you must modify the “win.ini” file in the W indows ® directory to turn the machine’ s bi-directional function off. W e recommend that you do a back-up befor[...]

TROUBLESHOOTING WINDOWS ® SOFTW ARE DIFFICUL TIES 8 - 7 EPSON ActionLaser 1100 / 1400: Please remove the EPSON Action Laser 1 100/1400 driver by running the EPDELETE.EXE file in the W indows ® Printer Driver for these models. Lexmark WinWriter 200: Y ou must modify the “win.ini” and “system.ini” files in the W indows ® directory to turn [...]

TROUBLESHOOTING WINDOWS ® SOFTW ARE DIFFICUL TIES 8 - 8 Graphics or T ext Is Missing When the Document Is Printed This could be caused by your Display Driver software. Contact your reseller and inquire about the latest Display Driver software. Another solution is to change your W indows ® Setup Display selection from the current selection to the [...]

USING YOUR BROTHER MACHINE WITH YOUR APPLE MACINT OSH G3 OR IMAC 9 - 1 9 9 Connecting Y our USB Equipped Apple Macintosh G3 or iMac with Mac OS 8.5/8.6 Connect your USB Equipped Apple Macintosh G3 or iMac with Mac OS 8.5/8.6 to your MFC 8600 or MFC 8700: 1 Set up your MFC 8600 or MFC 8700 and make sure that it is working properly . 2 Unplug the MFC[...]

USING YOUR BROTHER MACHINE WITH YOUR APPLE MACINTOSH G3 OR IMAC 9 - 2 6 Click Install MFC Scanner Driver to begin the installation. 7 After you have installed the Drivers, click V iew On-Line Documentation for operation instructions. Restart your Macintosh G3 or iMac so it can recognize the new drivers. Using Br other TW AIN Scanner Driver with Y o[...]

USING YOUR BROTHER MACHINE WITH YOUR APPLE MACINT OSH G3 OR IMAC 9 - 3 Accessing the Scanner Run your image editing application, such as Photoshop, Kai’ s Photo Soap. The first time you use the Brother TW AIN driver , set it as the default by choosing the “Select TW AIN Source” menu option. Afferward, for each original you scan choose “TW A[...]

USING YOUR BROTHER MACHINE WITH YOUR APPLE MACINTOSH G3 OR IMAC 9 - 4 Settings in the Scanner Window Image Resolution Resolution—Choose the scanning resolution from the Resolution pop-up menu. Higher resolutions take more memory and transfer time, but can achieve a finer scanned image. Color T ype Black & White—Set the image T ype to Black&[...]

USING YOUR BROTHER MACHINE WITH YOUR APPLE MACINT OSH G3 OR IMAC 9 - 5 Scanning Area Set the Size to one of the following: • Letter (8.5 x 1 1 inches) • A4 (210 x 297 mm) • Legal (8.5 x 14 inches) • A5 (148 x 210 mm) • B5 (182 x 257 mm) • Executive (7.25 x 10.5 inches) • Business Card (90 x 60 mm) • Custom (User adjustable from 0.35[...]

USING YOUR BROTHER MACHINE WITH YOUR APPLE MACINTOSH G3 OR IMAC 9 - 6 Miscellaneous Brightness Brightness—Adjust the brightness settings to obtain the best image. The Brother TW AIN Scanner driver offers 100 brightness settings (-50 to 50). The default value is 0, representing an “average” setting. Y ou can set the brightness level by draggin[...]

USING YOUR BROTHER MACHINE WITH YOUR APPLE MACINT OSH G3 OR IMAC 9 - 7 PreScanning an Image PreScanning allows you to scan an image quickly at a low resolution. A thumbnail version will appear in the Scanning Area. This is only a preview of the image, so you can see how it will look. The Pr eScan button is used to preview an image for cropping any [...]

USING YOUR BROTHER MACHINE WITH YOUR APPLE MACINTOSH G3 OR IMAC 9 - 8[...]

GLOSSAR Y G - 1 Glossary Automatic E-Mail printing Software application that automatically prints incoming e-mail messages on the MFC (on CD-ROM). Brother Contr ol Center A window that enables you to click on a button to choose the type of scanning operation you want to perform. If you set up the Control Center window to load each time you boot you[...]

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INDEX I - 1 Index A accessories and supplies ii Apple connecting 9-1 installing drivers 9-1 scanning 9-2 to 9-7 B bi-directional parallel cable 2-10 Brother accessories and supplies ii Bulletin Board i contact numbers i Customer Service i Disclaimer—User Installation of Memory Board(s) iii fax-back system i Frequently Asked Questions (F AQs) i No[...]

INDEX I - 2 P PaperPort ® for Brother exporting an image file 5-4 installing 2-1 1 prescanning an image 5-8 scanning into PC accessing 5-5 settings 5-6 uninstall 5-1 video capture to PC capturing an image 5-9 connecting video equipment 1-1 NTSC National 1-1 viewing faxes and files 5-2 parallel interface cable 2-10 printer drivers, installing iMac [...]

UU2103001 1 Printed in China These machines are made f or use in the USA and CANAD A only . W e cannot recommend using them ov erseas because it ma y violate the T elecommunications Regulations of that countr y and the power requirements of your Multi-Function Center ma y not be compatible with the power a v ailable in f oreign countries. Using USA[...]