User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Quick Setup Guide MFC-6890CDW
- Start Here
- 1 Unpack the machine and check the components
 - 2 Load plain A4 paper
 - 3 Connect the power cord and telephone line
 - 4 Set Your Country (For Australia / New Zealand Customer Only)
 - 5 Install the ink cartridges
 - 6 Check the print quality
 - 7 Choose a Receive Mode
 - 8 Set the LCD contrast (If needed)
 - 9 Set the date and time
 - 10 Enter personal information (station ID)
 - 11 Fax Transmission Report
 - 12 Set tone or pulse dialling mode (Not available for New Zealand)
 - 13 Choose your connection type
 
 - For USB Interface Users (For Windows® 2000 Professional/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition/ Windows Vista®)
 - For USB Interface Users (For Mac OS® X 10.2.4 or greater)
 - For Wired Network Interface Users (For Windows® 2000 Professional/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition/ Windows Vista®)
 - For Wired Network Interface Users (For Mac OS® X 10.2.4 or greater)
 - For Wireless Network Interface Users
- 14 Before you begin
 - 15 Confirm your network environment (Infrastructure Mode)
 - Connecting the Brother machine to the wireless network
 - Install the Drivers & Software (For Windows® 2000 Professional/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition/ Windows Vista®)
 - Install the Drivers & Software (For Mac OS® X 10.2.4 or greater)
 
 - Install Optional Applications Windows®
 - For Network Users
 - Consumables
 - brother ARL/ASA/NZ
 
 - Start Here
 
27
Macintosh
®
Wired Network
Windows
®
Macintosh
®
Wired Network
17
Install 
Presto! PageManager
When Presto! PageManager is installed OCR 
capability is added to Brother ControlCenter2. You 
can easily scan, share and organize photos and 
documents using Presto! PageManager.
a Double-click the Presto! PageManager icon 
and follow the on-screen instructions.
For Mac OS
®
 X 10.2.4 to 10.3.8 users, 
when this screen appears, click Go to 
download the software from the Brother 
Solutions Center website.
18
Install MFL-Pro Suite on 
additional computers 
(If needed)
If you want to use your machine with multiple 
computers on the network, install MFL-Pro Suite on 
each computer. Go to step 16 on page 25. Also see 
step 14-a on page 24 before you install.
Finish
The installation is now 
complete.










