Brother MFC 8420 User Manual

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Brother MFL-Pro Control Center
The Brother Control Center is a software utility that pops up on t he 
PC screen whenever paper is put in the ADF of the MFC. This allows 
you to quickly and with very few mouse clicks, to access the most 
frequently used scanning applications. Using the Control Center 
stops the need to manually start up any specific applications. 
The Brother Control Cent er provides three operations (Scan, Copy 
and PC-Fax):
■Scan directly to a file, E-mail, word processor or graphic 
application of your choice
■Copy
■PC Faxing using t he Brother PC-FAX software
Using the Brother Control Center 
for Windows
® 
95/98/98SE/Me/2000 Professional 
and Windows NT
® WS 4.0
I f you are using Windows® 2000 Prof essional or Windows NT® 
4.0, we recommend that you are logged on with administrator 
rights.
 
						

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AutoLoad the Brother Control Center 
The Control Center is loaded every time Windows® is started. 
When the Control Center is loaded, the 
Control Center  icon 
will appear on t he task bar.
If you don’t want the Control Center to load automatically, you can 
turn off AutoLoad.
How to turn off AutoLoad 
1Left-click the Control Center   icon and click Show.
2When the Control Center window appears, left  click t he Smart 
Click   Control Center butt on.
A dialog box will appear:
3Uncheck the ‘AutoLoad’ Pop-Up check box.
If the Control Center   icon does not appear on your task 
bar, you will have to launch the software.
Double-click the 
Control Center   icon on the desktop or 
from the St ar t menu, select Pr og ram s, ScanSoft PaperPort 
8.0, and then click Brother SmartUI POPUP.
 
						

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Brother Control Center features
Auto Configuration
During installation the Control Center will check your system to set 
up the default applications for E-mail, word processing and the 
graphics viewer/editor.
For example, if you are using Outlook as your default  E-mail 
application, the Control Center will create a link and a scanning 
application button f or Outlook.
You can change a default application.  Right-click the appropriate 
Cont rol Center button to display Configurat ions and then click it.  
Select a different application.
For example, you can change a scan button from MS Word Pad
 t o MS Word   by changing the application 
that is listed for the Word Processor.
 
						

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Scan key operations
Scan to File—Lets you scan directly to a file on your computer.  You 
can change t he file type and directory for the document you are 
scanning.
Scan to E-mail—Lets you scan a picture or text document directly 
into an E-mail application as a standard attachment. You can choose 
the f ile type and resolution for the attachment.
Scan to OCR (Word Processor)—Lets you scan a text document, run 
ScanSoft TextBridge OCR, and insert  the text original (not a graphic 
image) into a word processing file. You can choose the word 
processing application, such as Word Pad, MS Word, and so on.
Scan to Image—Lets you scan an image directly into any graphic 
viewer/editor application.  You can choose the graphics application, 
such as Microsoft Paint.
Copy operations
Copy—Let s you use the PC and any Windows® print er driver for 
enhanced copy operations.
You can scan the page on the Brother MFC and print the copies 
using any of the features of the Brother MFC printer driver.
—OR—
You can send the copy output  to any standard Windows
® printer 
driver that is on your PC.
PC-Fax operation
Send a Fax—Lets you scan a picture or text original and send the 
image as a fax from the PC using the Brother PC-FAX sof tware.
 
						

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Scanner settings for Scan, Copy and PC-Fax buttons
When the Pop-Up screen appears, you can access the Scanner 
Settings window.
Click the Smart Click icon at t he top right of the Brother Control 
Cent er screen
—OR—
Click the Modify Settings button on any of the Configuration screens.
Global settings
AutoLoad Pop-Up—Select this checkbox if you want Brot her MFL 
Cont rol Center to load when you turn on your computer. 
 
						

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Setting up the scanner configurations
The Pop-Up application stores eight different scanning modes. Each 
time you scan an original, you can choose the most appropriate 
scanning mode from the following:
Faxing, Filing and Copying
Text for OCR
Photos
Photos (High Quality)
Photos (Quick Scan)
Custom
Draft Copy
Fine Copy
Each mode has it s own set of stored settings. You can keep t he 
factory default settings or change them at any t ime:
Resolution—From the pull-down list, select the scanning 
resolution you most often use.
Color Mode—From the pull-down list, select the color settings 
you most often use.
Scan Size—From t he pull-down list, select the scan size you 
most often use.
Bright ness—Slide the adjuster from 0% to 100%
Cont rast—Slide the adjuster from 0% to 100%
Click OK to save your changes.  If you make a mistake or want the 
original default setting, just click the Restore Defaults button when 
the scanning mode is displayed.
 
						

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Perform an operation from the Control Center 
screen
If you see t his screen it means you left-clicked a button in the Cont rol 
Cent er window without first placing an original in the ADF.
Place the original in the MFC’s ADF, and then click OK to go to the 
Cont rol Center screen.
I f you want to scan the original from t he scanner glass, please 
use  (
Scan) on the control panel of the MFC.
 
						

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Scan to File
To access Scan to File Configurations screen
1Place the original face up in the ADF. The Brother Control 
Center screen will pop up.
2Right-click Scan to File and click on Configuration. Click the 
Modify Setti ngs button to view the configuration screen of the 
Control Center.
3To save your settings, click OK
—OR—
To go back to the factory default settings, click the Restore 
Defaults butt on.
Scanner settings
From the pull-down list, select the scanning mode that  is appropriate 
for the type of file: Faxi ng, Filing and Copying; Text for OCR; 
Phot os; Photos (High Quality); Photos (Quick Scan); Custom; 
Draft Copy or Fine Copy.
To change any of  the settings for the mode, click Modify Settings.
 
						

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Destination  fold er
PaperPort Folder—Select  this checkbox to scan the original into your 
PaperPort folder.
Other Folder—Select t his checkbox, to scan the original as another 
file type or to store it in another directory/folder.
File—If you selected Other folder f rom t he pull-down list, select the 
type of file:
PaperPort Image Item (*.max)
PaperPort Self-Viewing (*.exe)
PaperPort Browser-Viewable (*.htm)
PaperPort 5.0 Image It em (*.max)
PaperPort 4.0 Image It em (*.max)
PaperPort 3.0 Image It em (*.max)
Windows Bitmap (*bmp)
PC Paintbrush (*.pcx)
PCX Multi-page (*.dcx)
JPEG (*.jpg)
TIFF-Uncompressed (*.tif)
TIFF-Group 4 (*.tif)
TIFF-Class F (*.tif)
TIFF Multi-page - Uncompressed (*.tif)
TIFF Multi-page - Group 4 (*. tif)
TIFF Multi-page - Class F (*.tif)
Portable Network Graphics (*.png)
FlashPix (*.fpx)
To Search your system for the directory and folder you want, click the 
Browse button. Click OK to save your settings.
 
						

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Scan to E-mail
To access Scan to E-mail Configurations screen
1Place the original face up in the ADF. The Brother Control 
Center screen will pop up.
2Right-click the E-mail application button and click on 
Conf iguration. 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 factory default settings, click the Restore 
Defaults butt on.
Scanner settings
From the pull-down list, select the scanning mode that  is appropriate 
for the type of file: Faxi ng, Filing and Copying; Text for OCR; 
Phot os; Photos (High Quality); Photos (Quick Scan); Custom; 
Draft Copy or Fine Copy.
To change any of  the settings for this mode, click Modify Settings.