Brother DCP 8020 User Manual

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Using the Brother TWAIN scanner 
driver with your Macintosh
® 
The Brother DCP software includes a TWAIN Scanner driver for 
Macintosh®. You can use this Macintosh® TWAIN Scanner driver 
with any applications that support the TWAIN specifications.
Accessing the scanner
Run your Macintosh® TWAIN-compliant application software. The 
first time you use the Brother TWAIN driver (MFL Pro/P2500), set it 
as the default by choosing Select Source (or the other menu name 
to select the device). Afterwards, for each document you scan 
choose Acquire Image or Scan. The scanner setup dialog box will 
appear.
Mac OS X Scanning is supported in Mac OS X 10.2.1 or greater.
■The screen shown in this section are from Mac OS 9. The 
screen on your Macintosh® may vary depending on your 
Operating System.
■The method of selecting the source or choosing to scan may 
vary depending on the application software you are using.
(OS 8.6–9.2)
 
						

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Scanning an image into your Macintosh®
You can scan a whole page
—OR—
scan a portion after prescanning the document.
Scanning a whole page
1Place the original face up in the ADF, or face down on the 
scanner glass.
2Adjust the following settings, if needed, in the Scanner Setup 
dialog box:
Resolution
Color Type
Scanning Area
Brightness
Contrast
3Click Start.
When scanning has finished, the image will appear in your 
graphics application.
 
						

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Pre-Scanning an image
Pre-Scanning 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 PreScan button will allow you to crop unwanted areas from the 
images. When you are satisfied with the preview, click Start to scan 
the image.
1Insert the original face up in the ADF, or face down on the 
scanner glass.
2Click PreScan.
The whole image will be scanned into your Macintosh® and will 
appear in the Scanning Area of the Scanner dialog box:
3To scan a portion of the pre-scanned image, click and drag the 
mouse to crop it.
4Insert original in the ADF, if you are using ADF.
5Make your adjustments to the settings for Resolution, 
Color Type (Gray Scale), Brightness, Contrast, and Size in 
the Scanner Setup dialog box.
6Click Start.
This time only the cropped area of the original will appear in the 
Scanning Area.
7In your editing software, you can refine the image.
 
						

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Settings in the Scanner window
Image
Resolution
From the Resolution pop-up menu choose the scanning resolution. 
Higher resolutions use more memory and transfer time, but produce 
a finer scanned image.
 
						

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Color Type
Black & White—Set the image Type to Black and White for text or 
line art. For photographic images, set the image type to Gray (Error 
diffusion) or True Gray.
Gray (Error Diffusion)
—is used for documents with photographic 
images or graphics. (Error Diffusion is a method for creating 
simulated gray images by placing black dots instead of the true gray 
dots in a specific matrix instead of true gray dots.)
True Gray
—is used for documents with photographic images or 
graphics. This mode is more exact because it uses up to 256 shades 
of gray. It requires the most memory and takes the longest transfer 
time.
Colors
—Choose either 8-bit Color, which scans up to 8-bit Color or 
24-bit Color which scans up to 16.8 million colors. Although using 
24-bit Color creates an image with the most accurate colors, the 
image file will be about three times larger than a file created with 8-bit 
Color.
 
						

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Scanning Area
Set the Size to one of the following:
■Letter (8.5 × 11 in.) 
■A4 (210 × 297 mm) 
■Legal (8 1/2 × 14 in.)
 
■A5 (148 × 210 mm) 
■B5 (182 × 257 mm) 
■Executive (7.25 × 10.5 in.)
 
■Business Card (90 × 60 mm) 
■Custom (User adjustable from 0.35 × 0.35 in. to 8.5 × 14 in. or 
8.9 
× 8.9 mm to 216 × 356 mm) 
After you choose a custom size, you can adjust the scanning area. 
Click and hold the mouse button as you drag the mouse to crop the 
image. 
Width:  Enter the width of the custom size.
Height:Enter the height of the custom size.
Business Card Size
To scan business cards, select the Business Card size (90 × 60 mm) 
and place the business card at the center of scanner glass.
When you are scanning photographs or other images to use in a 
word processor or other graphics application, it is a good idea to try 
different settings for the Contrast, Mode and Resolution to determine 
which settings look the best.
 
						

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Adjusting the Image
Brightness
Adjust the Brightness setting to get the best image. The Brother 
TWAIN Scanner driver offers 100 Brightness levels (-50 to 50). The 
default value is 0, representing an ‘average’ setting.
You can set the Brightness level by dragging the slide bar to the 
right to lighten the image or to the left to darken the image. You can 
also type a value in the box to set the level. Click OK.
If the scanned image is too light, set a lower Brightness level and 
scan the image again.
If the image is too dark, set a higher Brightness level and scan the 
image again.
Contrast
You can only adjust the Contrast level when you have selected one 
of the Gray Scale settings, it is not available when you have selected 
Black & White as the selected Color Type.
Increasing the Contrast level (by dragging the slide bar to the right) 
emphasizes dark and light areas of the image, while reducing the 
Contrast level (by dragging the slide bar to the left) reveals more 
detail in the gray areas. Instead of using the slide bar, you can type 
a value in the box to set the Contrast. Click OK.
 
						

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Using Presto! PageManager®
Presto! PageManager® is application software for managing the 
documents in your computer. Since it is compatible with most image 
editors and word processing programs, Presto! PageManager
® 
gives you unmatched control over your computer files. You can 
easily manage your documents and edit your E-mail files and read 
documents with the OCR software built into Presto! PageManager
®.
If you use the DCP as a scanner, we recommend that you install 
Presto! PageManager. To install Presto! PageManager
®, see the 
Quick Setup Guide on page 38 to 41.
Highlights 
■OCR: In one step scan an image, recognize the text, and edit it 
with a word processor. 
■Scan Buttons: Scan documents and open them with a designated 
program in one step. 
■Image Editing: Enhance, crop and rotate images, or open them 
with an image-editing program of your choice. 
■Annotation: Add removable notes, stamps and drawings to 
images. 
■Treeview Window: View and arrange your folder hierarchy for 
easy access. 
■Thumbnail Window: View files as thumbnails for easy 
identification. 
The complete NewSoft Presto! PageManager® 4.0 Users Guide 
can be found in the documentation on the CD-ROM supplied 
with your DCP.
 
						

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System requirements 
■PowerPC processor 
■System 8.6, 9X, 10.1, or greater 
■CD-ROM drive 
■Hard disk drive with at least 120 MB of free disk space
Recommended: 
■8-bit Color or higher video adapter. 
■Eudora Mail, or Outlook Express electronic mail software 
Technical Support 
For USA
Newsoft America Inc.
Postal Address: 4113 Clipper Court Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Telephone: 510-4458600
FAX: 510-4458601
E-mail Address:  [email protected]
URL: http://www.newsoftinc.com/
For Canada
E-mail Address: [email protected]
 
						

							12 - 1   NETWORK SCANNING (WINDOWS® 98/98SE/ME/2000 PROFESSIONAL AND XP ONLY)
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To use the DCP as a Network Scanner, the NC-9100h Network 
board should be installed into the DCP and configured with TCP/IP 
and mail server settings if you use scan to E-mail (E-mail server). 
You can set or change NC-9100h settings from the control panel or 
with the BRAdmin Professional utility or Web Management. (Please 
see the NC-9100h Users Guide on the CD-ROM.)
Registering your PC with the DCP
If you need to change the DCP that was registered to your PC during 
the installation of Brother MFL-Pro Suite (see Quick Setup Guide on 
page 34), follow the steps below.
1For Windows® 98/Me/2000
 
From the Start menu, select Control Panel, Scanners and 
Cameras, and then right-click Scanner Device icon and select 
Properties to view the Network Scanner Properties dialog box.
For Windows
® XP
 
From the Start menu, select Control panel, Printers and 
Other Hardware, Scanners and Cameras (or Control Panel, 
Scanners and Cameras).
Network Scanning 
(Windows® 98/98SE/Me/2000 
Professional and XP only)