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
Installing the Driver & Software
14
STEP 2
Windows
®
USB
Windows
®
1
For USB Interface Cable Users
(For Windows
®
98/98SE/Me/2000 Professional/XP/
XP Professional x64 Edition)
Important
Make sure that you have finished the
instructions from step 1 Setting Up the
Machine on page 4 to 11.
Note
Please close any applications running before
installing the MFL-Pro Suite.
1 Turn off and unplug the machine from the AC
outlet and disconnect it from your computer, if
you already connected an interface cable.
2 Turn on your computer.
(For Windows
®
2000 Professional/XP/
XP Professional x64 Edition, you must be
logged on with Administrator rights.)
3 Put the supplied CD-ROM for Windows
®
into
your CD-ROM drive. If the model name screen
appears, choose your machine. If the language
screen appears, choose your language.
4 The CD-ROM main menu will appear.
Click Install MFL-Pro Suite.
Note
If this window does not appear, use Windows
®
Explorer to run the setup.exe program from the
root folder of the Brother CD-ROM.
5 Choose Local Connection, and then click
Next. The installation will continue.
Note
If you want to install the PS driver (Brother’s BR-
Script Driver), choose Custom Install and then
follow the on-screen instructions. When the Select
Components screen appears, check PS Printer
Driver, and then continue following the on-screen
instructions