Brother MFC 8420 User Manual

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10Select Set Default Printer from the Pr in ting menu.
For Mac OS® X users
You need to inst all the PS driver using t he following instructions.
■If a Brother Native Driver (MFC-XXX) is already listed in 
Printer list, you will need to delete it and t hen install the PS 
driver.
■To use the PS driver with a USB cable,  you need to set the 
Emulation to BR-Script3 (
Menu, 4,1) before 
connecting the USB cable. (See Setting the Emulation 
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2O pen the Utilities f older.
3O pen the Print Center icon.
4Click Add Printer… .
 

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5Select USB.
6Select MFC-8820D, and then click Ad d.
7Select Quit Printer Center from the Pr int  Cent er menu.
 

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Sending a fax from your Macintosh® 
application
For Mac OS® 8.6-9.2 users
You can send a fax directly from a Macintosh® application by doing 
the following:
1Create a document in a Macintosh application.
2To send a fax, select Print from the File menu.
The Printer dialog box will appear:
When Printer is selected, the t op button shows Pr int and the 
Address button is grayed.
3From the Output pull-down menu, select Facsimile.
When Facsimile is selected, the top...

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4Click Se nd Fax.
The Send Fa x dialog box appears:
The Se nd  F ax dialog box has two list boxes. The left box shows 
all the previously Stored Fax Numbers and the right box shows 
the Desti nati on Fax Numbers as you select them.
5To address the fax, type a fax number in the Input Fa x Number 
box. 
6When you are finished addressing your fax, click Send Fax.
Click OK to go to the Send Fax dialog box.
To select and only send certain pages of the document, click...

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For Mac OS® X users
You can send a fax directly from a Macintosh® application by doing 
the following:
1Create a document in a Macintosh application.
2To send a fax, select Print from the File menu.
The Printer dialog box will appear:
3Select Se nd Fax f rom pull-down menu.
 

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4Select Facsimile from the Output pull-down menu.
5To address the fax, type a fax number in the Input Fa x 
Numbers box, and the click Print.
If you want to send a fax t o more than one number, click Add 
aft er entering the first fax number. The destination fax numbers 
will be listed in the dialog box.
 

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Drag a vCard from the Mac OS® X Address Book 
application
1Click Address Book button.
2Drag a vCard from the Mac OS® X Address Book application 
t o the Destination Fax Numbers filed.
When you are finished addressing your fax, click Print.
The vCard used must contain a work fax or home fax number.
 

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When you choose work fax or home  fax from the Stored Fax 
Numbers pull-down list,  only the fax number stored in the 
Mac OS
® X Address Book for the selected category will be 
used. If the fax number is stored in only one of the Mac OS® X 
Address Book cat egories, the number will be retrieved no matter 
which category you have selected (work or home).
 

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Using the Brother TWAIN scanner 
driver with your Macintosh
® 
The Brother MFC software includes a TWAIN Scanner driver for 
Macintosh®. You can use this Macintosh® TWAIN Scanner driver 
with any applicat ions 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 ot her menu...