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
 
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For Network Users
BRAdmin Light utility (For Mac OS
®
 X users)
BRAdmin Light is a utility for initial setup of Brother network connected devices. It also can search for Brother 
products on your network, view the status and configure basic network settings, such as IP address from a 
computer running Mac OS
®
 X 10.2.4 or greater.
The BRAdmin Light software will be installed automatically when you install the printer driver. If you have already 
installed the printer driver, you don’t have to install BRAdmin Light again. For more information on BRAdmin Light, 
visit us at http://solutions.brother.com/
.
Set your IP address, Subnet Mask 
and Gateway using BRAdmin Light 
a Double-click the Macintosh HD icon on your 
desktop.
b Choose Library, Printers, Brother and then 
Utilities.
c Double-click the file BRAdmin Light.jar and 
run the software. BRAdmin Light will then 
search for new devices automatically.
d Double-click the unconfigured device.
e Choose STATIC for the Boot Method. Enter 
the IP Address, Subnet Mask and Gateway, 
and then click OK.
f The address information will be saved to the 
machine.
Note
• If you have a DHCP/BOOTP/RARP server in 
your network, you don’t have to do the 
following operation. The machine will 
automatically obtain its own IP address. 
• Make sure that version 1.4.1_07 or later of 
Java™ client software is installed on your 
computer.
• The default password for the machine is 
‘access’. You can use BRAdmin Light to 
change this password.










