User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Quick Setup Guide MFC-7840W
- Symbols used in this guide
- Table of Contents
- Getting Started
- STEP 1 Setting Up the Machine
- STEP 2 Installing the Driver & Software
- Supplied CD-ROM ‘MFL-Pro Suite’
- Windows®
- For USB Interface Cable Users (For Windows® 2000 Professional/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition/Windows Vista®)
- For Wired Network Interface Users (For Windows® 2000 Professional/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition/Windows Vista®)
- For Wireless Network Interface Users (For Windows® 2000 Professional/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition/Windows Vista®) in infrastructure mode
- Connecting your wireless machine and wireless network together and installing the printer driver in infrastructure mode
- Using the Setup Wizard from the control panel LAN menu for wireless network configuration
- Using the SecureEasySetup™, Wi-Fi Protected Setup™ or AOSS™ software to configure your machine for a wireless network (one-push method)
- Macintosh®
- For USB Interface Cable Users
- For Wired Network Interface Users
- For Wireless Network Interface Users (For Mac OS® X 10.2.4 or greater) in infrastructure mode
- Connecting your wireless machine and wireless network together and installing the printer driver in infrastructure mode
- Using the Setup Wizard from the control panel LAN menu for wireless network configuration (Infrastructure Mode)
- Using the SecureEasySetup™, Wi-Fi Protected Setup™ or AOSS™ software to configure your machine for a wireless network (one push-mode)
- For Network Users
- Consumables and Options
- brother UK/IRE/SAF
Installing the Driver & Software
14
STEP 2
Windows
®
USB
Windows
®
1
1
For USB Interface Cable Users (For Windows
®
2000
Professional/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition/Windows Vista
®
)
Important
Make sure that you have finished the
instructions from step 1 Setting Up the
Machine on pages 4 through 11.
Note
• Please close any applications running before
installing the MFL-Pro Suite.
• The supplied CD-ROM includes ScanSoft™
PaperPort™ 11SE. This software supports
Windows
®
2000 (SP4 or greater), XP (SP2 or
greater), XP Professional x64 Edition and
Windows Vista
®
only. Please update to the latest
Windows
®
Service Pack before installing
MFL-Pro Suite.
1 Turn off and unplug the machine from the AC
outlet and disconnect it from your computer, if
you already connected an interface cable.
2 Turn on your computer. (You must be logged
on with administrator rights.)
3 Put the supplied CD-ROM for Windows
®
into
your CD-ROM drive. If the model name screen
appears, choose your machine. If the language
screen appears, choose your language.
4 The CD-ROM main menu will appear. Click
Install MFL-Pro Suite.
Note
• If this window does not appear, use Windows
®
Explorer to run the start.exe program from the
root folder of the Brother CD-ROM.
• For Windows Vista
®
, when the User Account
Control screen appears, click Allow.
5 Choose Local Connection (USB), and then
click Next. The installation will continue.
Note
If you want to install the PS driver (Brother’s
BR-Script Driver), choose Custom Install and
then follow the on-screen instructions. When the
Select Features screen appears, check
PS Printer Driver, and then continue following the
on-screen instructions.