User Manual
Table Of Contents
- USER'S GUIDE MFC-8440 MFC-8840D
- APPROVAL INFORMATION
- Compilation and Publication Notice
- "EC"Declararion of Conformity
- Safety precautions
- Choosing a location
- Quick Reference Guide
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Paper
- 3 On-screen programming
- 4 Getting started
- Initial Setup
- General Setup
- Setting the Mode Timer
- Setting the Paper Type
- Setting the Paper Size
- Setting the Ring Volume
- Setting the Beeper Volume
- Setting the Speaker Volume
- Turning on Automatic Daylight Savings Time
- Toner Save
- Sleep Time
- Turning off the Scanner Lamp
- Power Save
- Setting the Tray Use for Copy mode
- Setting the Tray Use for Fax mode
- Setting the LCD Contrast
- Initial Setup depending on Your Country
- 5 Setup Receive
- 6 Setup Send
- How to Fax
- Basic sending operations
- Advanced sending operations
- 7 Auto Dial numbers and dialling options
- 8 Remote Fax Options
- 9 Printing reports
- 10 Making copies
- 11 Using the MFC as a printer
- 12 Printer driver settings
- 13 How to scan using Windows®
- Scanning a document
- Scanning a document (For Windows® XP only)
- Using the scan key (For USB or Parallel interface cable users)
- Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® and OmniPage® OCR
- 14 Using the Brother Control Center
- 15 Using the Windows®-Based Brother SmartUI Control Center
- Brother SmartUI Control Center
- Brother Control Center features
- Hardware Section: Changing the Scan to button configuration
- Software Section
- Scan to File
- Scan to E-mail
- Scan to OCR (Word Processing program)
- Scan to Graphics application (example: Microsoft Paint)
- Fax setting (PC-Fax using the Brother Fax Driver)
- Custom: User-defined buttons
- 16 Using MFC Remote Setup
- 17 Using Brother PC-FAX software
- PC-FAX sending
- Speed-Dial setup
- The Address Book
- Setting up a Member in the Address Book
- Setting up a Group for Broadcasting
- Editing Member information
- Deleting a Member or Group
- Exporting the Address Book
- Importing to the Address Book
- Setting up a Cover Page
- You can enter information in each field
- Sending a file as a PC-FAX using the Facsimile style
- Sending a file as a PC-FAX using the Simple style
- Setting up PC-FAX receiving (Windows® 98/98SE/Me/2000 Professional and Windows NT® WS 4.0 only)
- Receiving a fax into the PC (Windows® XP only)
- 18 Using your MFC with a Macintosh®
- Setting up your USB-equipped Apple® Macintosh®
- Using the Brother printer driver with your Apple® Macintosh® (Mac OS® 8.6 - 9.2)
- Using the Brother Printer Driver with Your Apple® Macintosh® (Mac OS® X)
- Using the PS driver with your Apple® Macintosh®
- Sending a fax from your Macintosh® application
- Using the Brother TWAIN scanner driver with your Macintosh®
- Using Presto!® PageManager®
- MFC Remote Setup (Mac OS® X)
- 19 Network Scanning
- 20 Brother Network PC-FAX software
- 21 Important information
- 22 Troubleshooting and routine maintenance
- 23 Optional accessories
- Glossary
- Specifications
- Index
- Remote Retrieval Access card
- brother UK/IRE/SAF/PAN NORDIC
USING THE WINDOWS
®
-BASED BROTHER SMARTUI CONTROL CENTER
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Custom: User-defined buttons
There are up to three Custom buttons on the Brother SmartUI
Control Center. (NOTE: The number of Custom buttons depends on
which Brother model you purchased.) You can set your own
preferences and configuration to fit your required application.
To configure a Custom Button right click on the button and then click
Configuration. The configuration window will appear. You have four
function choices Application, File, OCR and E-mail.
Application: This setting will link the Control Panel button to any
button which appears on the PaperPort
®
Send to Bar. Please see the
PaperPort
®
help file for more information regarding PaperPort
®
compatible applications.
File: This setting allows you to save a scanned image to any
directory on local or network hard disk. You can also select the file
format to be used.
OCR: Scanned documents will be converted to editable text files. If
you have a third party OCR software package installed on your PC
you can select it. The default OCR software is OmniPage
®
which is
built into PaperPort
®
8.0 SE. You can also select the destination
word processor and file format for the editable text.
E-mail: Scanned images will be attached to an E-mail message.
You can choose which E-mail package to use if you have more than
one installed on your system. You can also select the file type for the
attachment and create a quick send list of E-mail addresses chosen
from your default E-mail address book.
Customizing a user-defined button
To configure a Custom button right-click on the button and then click
Configuration. Please follow the following guide lines for Custom
Button configuration.
1. Select the Scan Action
Select the type of scan by clicking the appropriate button.