Brother DCP 185C User Manual

							
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D
ScannerD
1Windows® XP in this User’s Guide includes Windows® XP Home Edition, Windows® XP Professional, and Windows® 
XP Professional x64 Edition.
2Maximum 1200  × 1200 dpi scanning when using the WIA Driver for Windows® XP, and Windows Vista® 
(resolution up to 19200  × 19200 dpi can be selected by using the Brother scanner utility)
Colour /Monochrome Yes/Yes
TWAIN Compliant Yes (Windows
® 2000 Professional/XP/XP Professional x64 
Edition/Windows Vista
®)
Mac OS
® X 10.2.4 or greater
WIA Compliant Yes (Windows
® XP1/Windows Vista®)
Colour Depth 36 bit colour Processing (Input)
(Actual Input: 30 bit colour/Actual Output: 24 bit colour)
2
24 bit colour Processing (Output)
Resolution Up to 19200 × 19200 dpi (interpolated)
2
Up to 1200  × 2400 dpi (optical) (Scanner Glass)
Up to 1200  × 600 dpi (optical) (ADF) (DCP-185C only)
Scanning Speed Monochrome: Up to 3.44 sec.
Colour: Up to 4.83 sec. 
(A4 size in 100 × 100 dpi)
Document Size   (DCP-185C only) ADF Width: 148 mm to 215.9 mm
(DCP-185C only) ADF Length: 148 mm to 355.6 mm
Scanner Glass Width: Max. 215.9 mm
Scanner Glass Length: Max. 297 mm
Scanning Width Up to 210 mm
Greyscale 256 levels
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PrinterD
1Based on Brother standard pattern.
A4 size in draft mode.
2When you set the Borderless feature to On.
3See Paper type and size for each operation  on page 15.
Printer Driver
Windows® 2000 Professional/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition/ 
Windows Vista
® driver supporting Brother Native Compression 
mode
Mac OS
® X 10.2.4 or greater: Brother Ink driver
Resolution Up to 1200 × 6000 dpi
1200  × 2400 dpi
1200  × 1200 dpi
600  × 1200 dpi
600  × 600 dpi
600  × 300 dpi
450  × 150 dpi (Mono)
600  × 150 dpi (Colour)
Print Speed (DCP-145C)
Monochrome: Up to 27 pages/minute
1
Colour: Up to 22 pages/minute1
(DCP-163C, DCP-165C, DCP-167C, and DCP-185C)
Monochrome: Up to 30 pages/minute
1
Colour: Up to 25 pages/minute1
Printing Width
204 mm (210 mm)2 (A4 size)
Borderless Letter, A4, A6, Photo (10x15 cm), Index Card, 
Photo 2L (13x18 cm), Post Card
3
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InterfacesD
1Your machine has a Full-speed USB 2.0 interface. This interface is compatible with Hi-Speed USB 2.0; however, the 
maximum data transfer rate will be 12 Mbits/s. The machine can also be connected to a computer that has a USB 1.1 
interface.
2Third party USB ports are not supported for Macintosh®.
USB12A USB 2.0 interface cable that is no longer than 2.0 m.
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Computer requirementsD
SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE FUNCTIONS
Computer Platform & Operating System 
VersionSupported 
PC Software 
FunctionsPC 
InterfaceProcessor  Minimum 
SpeedMi nimum 
RAMRecommended  RAMHard Disk Space to install
For 
DriversFor 
Applications
Windows® 
Operating 
System
1
2000 
Professional
4
Printing,  
Scanning, 
Removable 
Di skUSB Intel® 
Pentium
®II 
or equivalent 64 MB 256 MB 110 MB 340 MB
XP Home24
XP 
Professional
24
128 MB 110 MB 340 MB
Professional  
x64 Edition
264-bit (Intel®64 
or AMD64) 
supported CPU256 MB 512 MB 110 MB 340 MB
Windows 
Vista
®2Intel® Pentium® 
4 or equivalent
64-bit (Intel
®64 
or AMD64) 
supported CPU
512MB 1GB 600MB 530MB
Macintosh® 
Operating 
System
5
Mac OS® X 
10.2.4 - 
10.4.3Printing, 
Scanning, 
Removable 
DiskUSB3PowerPC 
G4/G5
PowerPC 
G3 350MHz 128 MB 256 MB 80 MB 400 MB
Mac OS® X 
10.4.4 or 
greaterPrinting, 
Scanning, 
Removable 
DiskUSB3PowerPC 
G4/G5
Intel
® 
Core™ 
Processor 512 MB 1 GB
Conditions:
1Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 or greater.
2For WIA, 1200x1200 resolution. Brother Scanner 
Utility enables to enhance up to 19200 x 19200 dpi.
3Third party USB ports are not supported.
4PaperPort™ 11SE supports Microsoft® SP4 or 
higher for Windows® 2000 and SP2 or higher for XP.
5Presto!® PageManager® on the CD-ROM supports 
Mac OS® X 10.3.9 or higher.
For Mac OS® X 10.2.4-10.3.8 Presto!® 
PageManager® is available as a download from the 
Brother Solutions Center. 
For the latest driver updates, visit 
http://solutions.brother.com
.
All trademarks, brand and product names are 
property of their respective companies.
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Consumable itemsD
Ink The machine uses individual Black, Yellow, Cyan and Magenta ink 
cartridges that are separate from the print head assembly.
Service Life of Ink 
Cartridge The first time you install a set of ink cartridges the machine will use 
an amount of ink to fill the ink delivery tubes for high quality 
printouts. This process will only happen once. With all following ink 
cartridges you can print the specified number of pages.
The cartridges provided with your machine have a lower yield than 
standard cartridges (65%).
Replacement Ink Cartridge
Ink cartridge
 (DCP-145C, DCP-163C, DCP-165C, DCP-167C)
Black (LC980BK) Yellow (LC980Y) Cyan (LC980C) Magenta (LC980M)
      
Black - Approximately 300 pages1
Yellow, Cyan and Magenta - Approximately 260 pages1
Ink cartridge (DCP-185C)
Black (LC1100BK) Yellow (LC1100Y) Cyan (LC1100C) Magenta (LC1100M)
      
Black - Approximately 450 pages1
Yellow, Cyan and Magenta - Approximately 325 pages1
For more information about the replacement consumables, visit us at http://www.brother.com/pageyield.
1Approx. cartridge yield is declared in accordance with ISO/IEC 24711.
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What is Innobella™?
Innobella™ is a range of genuine consumables offered by Brother. 
The name Innobella™ derives from the words Innovation and 
Bella (meaning Beautiful in Italian) and is a representation of the 
innovative technology providing you with beautiful“and “long 
lasting” print results.
When you print photo images, Brother recommends Innobella™ 
glossy photo paper (BP71 series) for high quality. Brilliant prints are 
made easier with Innobella™ Ink and paper. 
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This is a comprehensive list of features and terms that appear in Brother manuals. Availability of 
these features depends on the model you purchased.
E
GlossaryE
ADF (automatic document feeder)The document can be placed in the ADF 
and scanned one page at a time 
automatically.
Brightness Changing the Brightness makes the whole 
image lighter or darker.
Contrast Setting to compensate for dark or light 
documents, by making copies of dark 
documents lighter and light documents 
darker.
Colour Enhancement Adjusts the colour in the image for better 
print quality by improving sharpness, 
white balance and colour density.
Greyscale The shades of grey available for copying 
and scanning.
Help list A printout of the complete Menu table that 
you can use to program your machine 
when you do not have the Users Guide 
with you.
Innobella™ Innobella™ is a range of genuine 
consumables offered by brother. For best 
quality results Brother recommends 
Innobella™ Ink and Paper.
LCD (liquid crystal display) The display screen on the machine that 
shows interactive messages during On-
Screen Programming and shows the date 
and time when the machine is idle.
Menu mode  Programming mode for changing your 
machines settings. OCR (optical character recognition)
The bundled ScanSoft™ PaperPort™ 
11SE with OCR or Presto!
® 
PageManager
® software application 
converts an image of text to text you can 
edit. 
PhotoCapture Center™ Allows you to print digital photos from your 
digital camera at high resolution for photo 
quality printing.
PictBridge Allows you to print photos directly from 
your digital camera at high resolution for 
photo quality printing.
Scan to Media You can scan a monochrome or colour 
document into a memory card or USB 
Flash memory drive. Monochrome images 
can be in TIFF or PDF file format and 
colour images can be in PDF or JPEG file 
format.
Scanning The process of sending an electronic 
image of a paper document into your 
computer.
Temporary settings You can choose certain options for each 
copy without changing the default 
settings.
User Settings A printed report that shows the current 
settings of the machine.
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F
A
ADF (automatic document feeder) ........... 17
Apple® Macintosh®
See Software Users Guide on the 
CD-ROM.
 ..................................................
C
Cleaning paper pick-up roller
 ...............................73
print head
 .............................................. 73
printer platen
 .........................................72
scanner
 ................................................. 72
Consumable items
 ...................................97
Control panel overview
 ..............................6
ControlCenter
See Software Users Guide on the 
CD-ROM.
 ..................................................
Copy Enlarge/Reduce
 ....................................23
keys
 .......................................................22
multiple
 .................................................. 22
paper
 ..................................................... 27
Quality key
 ............................................23
single
 ..................................................... 22
sort
 ........................................................ 25
temporary settings
 ................................22
using scanner glass
 .............................. 18
Copy Options key (copying) Paper Size
 ............................................27
Paper Type
 ........................................... 27
E
Envelopes ................................... 10, 15, 16
Error messages on LCD
 ..........................63
B&W Print Only
 ..................................... 63
Cannot Detect
 .......................................63
Cannot Print
 ..........................................64
Init. Unable
 ............................................64
Ink Low
 .................................................. 64
No Cartridges
 ........................................ 64
No Paper Fed
 ........................................ 65
Out of Memory
 ......................................65
Print Unable
 ..........................................65
Scan Unable
 .........................................65
G
Greyscale ................................................ 93
H
Help
LCD messages
 ..................................... 79
using menu keys
 ............................... 79
Menu Table
 .......................................... 79
I
Ink cartridges checking ink volume
 ............................. 75
ink dot counter
 ...................................... 69
replacing
 ............................................... 69
Innobella™
 .............................................. 98
J
Jams document
 .............................................. 66
paper
 .................................................... 67
L
LCD (liquid crystal display) ...................... 79
Contrast
 ................................................ 19
Help List
 ............................................... 20
Language
 ............................................. 19
M
Macintosh®
See Software Users Guide on the 
CD-ROM.
 ..................................................
Maintenance, routine
replacing ink cartridges
 ........................ 69
Menu Table
 ............................................. 79
Mode, entering PhotoCapture
 ......................................... 7
Scan
 ....................................................... 6
O
Out of Memory message ......................... 65
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F
P
Paper ................................................ 13, 89
capacity
 ................................................. 16
loading
 .................................................... 8
size
 ....................................................... 15
size of document
 ................................... 17
type
 ....................................................... 15
PaperPort™ 11SE with OCR
See Software Users Guide on the 
CD-ROM and PaperPort™ 11SE 
with OCR How-to-Guides.
 .........................
PhotoCapture Center™
Borderless
 ............................................. 39
Cropping
 ............................................... 39
Date Print
 .............................................. 39
DPOF printing
 ....................................... 35
from PC See Software Users Guide on the 
CD-ROM.
 ...............................................
Memory Stick Pro™
 .............................. 30
Memory Stick® ...................................... 30
Print settings
Brightness
 .......................................... 37
Colour density
 .................................... 38
Contrast
 ............................................. 37
Paper type & size
 ............................... 36
Print speed & quality
 .......................... 36
Quality
 ................................................ 36
Sharpness
 .......................................... 38
White Balance
 .................................... 37
Printing images
 ..................................... 34
Printing Index
 ........................................ 33
Scan to Media
 ....................................... 40
SD
 ......................................................... 30
SDHC
 .................................................... 30
specifications
 ........................................ 91
xD-Picture Card™
 ................................. 30
PictBridge
DPOF Printing
 ....................................... 43
Presto!® PageManager®
See Help in Presto!® PageManager® to 
access the User’s Guide.
 .......................... Print
area
 ...................................................... 12
difficulties
 ............................................. 59
drivers
 .................................................. 94
improving quality
 ............................ 73, 74
paper jams
 ........................................... 67
reports
 .................................................. 20
resolution
 .............................................. 94
specifications
 ........................................ 94
Printing on small paper
 ...................................... 11
Programming your machine
 .................... 79
Q
Quality key (copying) ............................... 22
R
Reducing copies
 ................................................... 23
Reports
Help List
 ............................................... 20
how to print
 ........................................... 20
User Settings
 ........................................ 20
Resolution
copy
 ...................................................... 90
print
 ...................................................... 94
scan
 ...................................................... 93
S
Safety Instructions ................................... 54
Scanner glass cleaning
 ................................................ 72
using
 ..................................................... 18
Scanning
See Software Users Guide on the 
CD-ROM.
 .................................................
Serial Number how to find ...............See inside front cover
 
Shipping the machine .............................. 76
Sleep Mode
 ............................................. 19
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T
Temporary copy settings ..........................22
Transparencies
 ................................. 16, 89
Troubleshooting
 .......................................59
checking ink volume
 .............................. 75
document jam
 .......................................66
error messages on LCD
 ........................ 63
if you are having difficulty
copying
 ...............................................61
PhotoCapture Center™
 ..................... 62
printing
 ...............................................59
scanning
 .............................................61
software
 .............................................62
paper jam
 .............................................. 67
print quality
 ..................................... 73, 74
W
Windows®
See Software Users Guide on the 
CD-ROM.
 ..................................................
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