Brother MFC 8420 User Manual
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18 - 22 USING YOUR MFC WITH A MACINTOSH® 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 t he scanner glass. 2Adjust the following settings, if needed, in the Scanner Setup dialog box: Resolution Color Type Scanning Area Brightness Contrast 3Click St ar t. When scanning has finished, the image will appear in your graphics application.
USING YOUR MFC WITH A MACINTOSH® 18 - 23 PreScanning an image PreScanning 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 t he preview, click St ar t to scan the image. 1I nsert 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 prescanned image, click and drag the mouse to crop it. 4I nsert original in the ADF, if you are using ADF. 5Make your adjustments to the settings for Resolution, Color Ty pe (Gray Scale), Bright ness, Contrast, and Size in t he Scanner Setup dialog box. 6Click Start. This time only the cropped area of the original will appear in the Scanning Area. 7I n your editing software, you can ref ine the image.
18 - 24 USING YOUR MFC WITH A MACINTOSH® Settings in the Scanner window Im age Resolution From t he Resolution pop-up menu choose t he scanning resolution. Higher resolutions use more memory and transfer time, but produce a finer scanned image.
USING YOUR MFC WITH A MACINTOSH® 18 - 25 Color Type Black & White—Set the image Type t o 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 f or creating simulated gray images by placing black dots instead of the t rue gray dots in a specific matrix instead of true gray dots.) True G ray—is used for documents with photographic images or graphics. This mode is more exact because it uses up t o 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.
18 - 26 USING YOUR MFC WITH A MACINTOSH® Scanning Area Set the Size to one of the following: ■Letter (8.5 × 11 inches) ■A4 (21 0 × 297 mm) ■Legal (8 1/2 × 14 in.) ■A5 (14 8 × 210 mm) ■B5 (18 2 × 257 mm) ■Executive (7.25 × 10.5 inches) ■Business Card (90 × 60 mm) ■Custom (user adjustable it from 0. 35 × 0.35 in. to 8.5 × 11.69 in. or 8.9 × 8. 9 mm to 216 × 356 mm) Af ter you choose a custom size, you can adjust the scanning area. Click and hold t he mouse butt on as you drag t he mouse to crop the image. Widt h: 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.
USING YOUR MFC WITH A MACINTOSH® 18 - 27 Adjusting the Image Brightness Adjust the Bright nes s 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’ set ting. You can set the Bright ness 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 t he scanned image is too light, set a lower Brightness level and scan the image again. If t he 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 select ed Black & White as the selected Color Type. Increasing the Contrast level (by dragging t he 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 t he slide bar, you can type a value in the box t o set the Contrast. Click OK.
18 - 28 USING YOUR MFC WITH A MACINTOSH® Using Presto!® PageManager® Pr esto!® PageManager® is application software for managing the documents in your computer. Since it is compat ible 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 f iles, and read documents with the OCR soft ware built into Presto! ® PageManager®. If you use the MFC as a scanner, we recommend that you install Pr esto! ® PageManager®. To install Presto!® PageManager®, see Quick Setup Guide on pages 42 to 49. Highlights ■OCR: Scan an image, recognize the t ext, and edit it with a word processor. ■Scan Buttons: In one step scan document s and open them with a designated program. ■Image Editing: Enhance, crop and rot ate images, or open them with an image-editing program of your choice. ■Annotat ion: 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 User’s Guide can be found on the Macintosh CD-ROM supplied with your MFC.
USING YOUR MFC WITH A MACINTOSH® 18 - 29 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: ■256 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]
18 - 30 USING YOUR MFC WITH A MACINTOSH® MFC Remote Setup (Mac OS® X) The MFC Remote Setup application allows you to quickly set up your MFC by taking advantage of the ease and speed of programming on your Macintosh ®. When you access this application, the set tings on your MFC will be downloaded automatically to your Macintosh® and displayed on your computer screen. If you change t he settings, you can upload them directly to t he MFC. OK This start s the process of uploading the data to the MFC and exiting the remote setup program. If an error message is displayed enter the correct dat a again. Click OK. Cancel This exits the remote setup application without uploading the dat a to the MFC. Appl y This uploads the data to the MFC, but does not exit the remote setup application. Pr in t This command prints the selected items on the MFC. You can not print the data until it is uploaded to the MFC. Click Appl y to upload the new data to the MFC and click Print. The ‘MFC Remote Setup’ application icon is in Macint osh HD/Library/Printers/Brother/Utility.
USING YOUR MFC WITH A MACINTOSH® 18 - 31 Export This command saves the current configuration settings to a f ile. Import This command reads the settings from a file.