User Manual
Table Of Contents
- SOFTWARE USER’S GUIDE
- Table of Contents
 - Windows®
- 1 Printing
 - 2 Scanning
- Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver
 - Scanning a document using the WIA driver (For Windows® XP/Windows Vista®)
 - Scanning a document using the WIA driver (For Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Fax and Scan users)
 - Using the Scan key (For USB cable users)
 - Using ScanSoft™ PaperPort™ 11SE with OCR by NUANCE™
 
 - 3 ControlCenter3
 - 4 Network Scanning (For models with built-in network support)
 - 5 Remote Setup (Not available for DCP models, MFC-250C, MFC-290C and MFC-297C)
 - 6 Brother PC-FAX Software (MFC models only)
 - 7 PhotoCapture Center™
 - 8 Firewall settings (For Network users)
 
 - Apple® Macintosh®
- 9 Printing and Faxing
 - 10 Scanning
 - 11 ControlCenter2
 - 12 Network Scanning (For models with built-in network support)
 - 13 Remote Setup & PhotoCapture Center™
 
 - Index
 - brother UK
 
 
Scanning
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Scan to File 2
You can scan a black and white or a colour document into your PC and save it as a file in the folder you 
choose. The file type and specific folder are based on the settings you have chosen in the Scan to File 
configuration screen of ControlCenter3. (See File on page 76.)
a Load your document.
b Press the  (Scan) key.
c Press a or b to choose Scan to File.
Press OK. 
d Press Mono Start or Colour Start.
The machine starts the scanning process.
For Touchscreen models
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a Load your document.
b Press the  (Scan) key.
c Press Scan to File.
d Press Mono Start or Colour Start.
The machine starts the scanning process.
Note
• If you want to change between colour and black and white scanning, choose colour or black and white in 
the scan type option on the Device Button tab of the ControlCenter3 configuration screen. (See SCAN 
on page 71.)
• If you would like to change the file name of scanned documents, enter the file name in File Name section 
on the Device Button tab of the ControlCenter3 configuration.
• Scan type depends on the settings of the Device Button tab, Mono Start or Colour Start do not change 
the settings.










