Brother DCP 8020 User Manual

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E-mail application
E-mail Application—From the pull-down list, select your E-mail 
application.
E-mail Settings—Click the E-Mail Settings button to set up links.
The Send To Options window will appear:
Send to Options
Convert attachments to specified file type—Converts items to the 
type in the File Type box. Clear this check box to keep files in their 
source format; for example, to keep Word...

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Scan to OCR (Word Processor)
To access Scan to OCR Configurations screen
1Place the original face up in the ADF. The Brother Control 
Center screen will pop up.
2Right-click the word processor application button and click on 
Configuration
. Click the Modify Settings button to view the 
configuration screen of the Control Center.
3To save your settings, click OK.
—OR—
To go back to the default...

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Word Processor
Word Processor—From the pull-down list, select the word processor 
you want to use.
Click the Link Settings button to display the screen to set up the 
document format you want to use and identify the OCR program:
File type
—From the pull-down list, select the file type you want to use 
for your word processor or text documents.
OCR—Identify the OCR program to use to convert...

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Scan to Image
To access Scan to Image Configurations screen
1Place the original face up in the ADF. The Brother Control 
Center screen will pop up.
2Right-click the graphic application button and click on 
Configuration. Click the Modify Settings button to view the 
configuration screen of the Control Center.
3To save your settings, click OK.
—OR—
To go back to the default settings, click the...

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Copy
To access the Copy Configurations screen
1Place the original face up in the ADF. The Brother Control 
Center screen will pop up.
2Right-click the Copy and click on Configuration. Click the 
Modify Settings button to view the configuration screen of the 
Control Center.
3To save your settings, click OK.
—OR—
To go back to the default settings, click the Restore Defaults 
button.
Scanner...

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Brother SmartUI Control Center
The Brother Control Center is a software utility that allows you to 
quite easily, with very few mouse clicks, access the most frequently 
used scanning applications. Using the Control Center eliminates the 
need to manually launch the specific applications and allows you to 
scan a document directly to a folder on your computer. The Brother 
Control Center provides four categories of...

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AutoLoad the Brother Control Center
The Control Center is initially configured to automatically load each 
time Windows® 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.
How to turn off Auto Load 
1Click the Control Center   icon in the Task Tray and select 
Show.
2The main SmartUI...

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Brother Control Center features
The SmartUI control center gives you the ability to configure the 
hardware 
Scan key on your DCP such as “Scan to File”. The “Scan 
to File” feature allows you to scan a document directly to your hard 
disk and choose the file format and destination folder without having 
to run any other applications. Select which section you want by 
clicking on the appropriate tab.
 

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Auto 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 automatically will create a link and a 
scanning application button for Outlook.
You can change the default application by right-clicking on any of...

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Hardware Section: Changing the Scan 
to button configuration
When the SmartUI Control Center is displayed, you can access the 
Hardware Section window to reconfigure the 
Scan button on your 
DCP. Click the Hardware Section tab at the top left of the SmartUI 
Control Center screen. (See Using the scan key (For USB or Parallel 
interface cable users) on page 8-16.)