User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Quick Setup Guide MFC-8870DW
- Symbols used in this guide
- Table of Contents
- Getting Started
- STEP 1 Setting Up the Machine
- 1 Install the drum and toner cartridge unit assembly
- 2 Load paper in the paper tray
- 3 Release the scanner lock
- 4 Install the power cord and phone line
- 5 Setting the date and time
- 6 Setting your station ID
- 7 Tone and pulse dialling mode
- 8 Setting the phone line type
- 9 Selecting a receive mode
- 10 Setting the LCD contrast
- STEP 2 Installing the Driver & Software
- Supplied CD-ROM ‘MFL-Pro Suite’
- Windows®
- For USB Interface Cable Users (For Windows® 98/98SE/Me/2000 Professional/XP/ XP Professional x64 Edition)
- For Parallel Interface Cable Users (For Windows® 98/98SE/Me/2000 Professional/XP/ XP Professional x64 Edition)
- For Windows NT® Workstation Version 4.0 Users (For Parallel Interface Cable Users)
- For Wired Network Interface Users (For Windows® 98/98SE/Me/NT/2000 Professional/XP/ XP Professional x64 Edition)
- For Wireless Network Users (For Windows® 98/98SE/Me/NT/2000 Professional/XP/ XP Professional x64 Edition in infrastructure mode)
- Macintosh®
- For Network Users
- Installing the BRAdmin Professional configuration utility (For Windows® users)
- Setting your IP address, Subnet Mask and Gateway using BRAdmin Professional (For Windows® users)
- BRAdmin Light configuration utility (For Mac OS® X users)
- How to set the machine’s network settings to wireless LAN or wired LAN
- Restoring the network settings to factory default
- Options and Consumables
- brother UK/IRE/SAF
Supplied CD-ROM ‘MFL-Pro Suite’
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Supplied CD-ROM ‘MFL-Pro Suite’
Windows
®
Install MFL-Pro Suite
You can install the MFL-Pro Suite software and
multifunction drivers.
Install Other Drivers or Utilities
You can install additional MFL-Pro Suite software
utilities.
Documentation
View the User’s Guide and other documents in PDF
format (Viewer included). The User’s Guide on the
CD-ROM includes the Software and Network User’s
Guides for features available when connected to a
computer (e.g. printing and scanning).
On-Line Registration
You will be pointed to the Brother Product
Registration Web Page for quick registration of your
machine.
Brother Solutions Center
You can access the Brother Solutions Center which is
a Web site offering information about your Brother
product including FAQs, User’s Guides, driver
updates and tips for using your machine.
Repair MFL-Pro Suite
(For USB and Parallel cable users only)
If an error occurred during the installation of the
MFL-Pro Suite, use this selection to automatically
repair and re-install the MFL-Pro Suite.
Note
MFL-Pro Suite includes Printer Driver, Scanner
Driver, Brother ControlCenter2, ScanSoft
®
PaperPort
®
SE with OCR and True Type
®
fonts.
PaperPort
®
SE is a document management
application for viewing scanned documents.
Macintosh
®
Start Here OS 9.1-9.2
You can install the printer driver, scanner driver and
Presto!
®
PageManager
®
for Mac OS
®
9.1-9.2.
Start Here OSX
You can install the MFL-Pro Suite that includes the
printer driver, scanner driver and the Brother
ControlCenter2 for Mac OS
®
10.2.4 or greater. You
can also install Presto!
®
PageManager
®
to add OCR
capability to the Brother ControlCenter2 and easily
scan, share and organize photos and documents.
readme.html
You can get important information and
troubleshooting tips.
Documentation
View the User’s Guide and other documents in PDF
format. The User’s Guide on the CD-ROM includes
the Software and Network User’s Guides for features
available when connected to a computer (e.g. printing
and scanning).
Brother Solutions Center
You can access the Brother Solutions Center which is
a Web site offering information about your Brother
product including FAQs, User’s Guides, driver
updates and tips for using your machine.
On-Line Registration
You will be pointed to the Brother Product
Registration Web Page for quick registration of your
machine.
Utilities
You can use additional Utilities in this folder.