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
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STEP 2
Macintosh
®
Macintosh
®
Wireless
Network
9 Choose the appropriate key number and press
OK.
22. Setup WLAN
WEP Key
a KEY1:
b KEY2:
Select ab & OK
Enter the WEP key you wrote down in step 1
using the dial pad. You can use the and
keys to move the cursor. For example, to
enter the letter a, press the 2 key on the dial
pad once. To enter the number 3, press the 3
key on the dial pad seven times.
The letters appear in this order: lower case,
upper case, numbers and then special letters.
Press OK when you have entered all the
characters, then choose 1.Yes and press OK
to apply your settings. Go to step 12.
Most access points and routers can store
more than one key, but they will only use
one at any time for authentication and
encryption.
10 Press or to choose TKIP or AES
for Encryption Type and press OK.
Enter the WPA-PSK Pass you wrote down in
step 1 using the dial pad. You can use the
and keys to move the cursor. For
example, to enter the letter a, press the 2 key
on the dial pad once. To enter the number 3,
press the 3 key on your dial pad seven times.
Press OK when you have entered all the
characters, then choose 1.Yes and press OK
to apply your settings. Go to step 12.
11 Enter the user and press OK. You can use
and keys to move the cursor. For
example, to enter the letter a, press the 2 key
on the dial pad once.
Enter the password and press OK, and then
choose 1.Yes and press OK to apply your
settings. Go to step 12.
12 Your machine will now try to connect to your
wireless network using the information you
have entered. If successful, Connected will
appear briefly on the LCD.
Connection Error is displayed when the
print server has not successfully connected to
your router or access point. Try starting from
step 3 again. If the same message is displayed
again, reset the print server back to the default
factory settings and try again.
(See Restoring the network settings to factory
default on page 55.)
13 The machine will automatically acquire the
correct TCP/IP address information from your
access point (router) if DHCP is enabled
(DHCP is normally enabled as default for most
access point routers).
If your access point does not have DHCP
enabled you will need to manually configure
the IP address, subnet mask and gateway of
the machine to suit your network. See the
Network User’s Guide for details.
Wireless setup is now complete. To install
the MFL-Pro Software suite, continue to
step 14.
14 Turn on your Macintosh
®
.
15 Put the supplied CD-ROM into your CD-ROM
drive.
16 Double-click the Start Here OSX icon to install
the drivers and MFL-Pro Suite. If the language
screen appears, choose your language.
17 Click MFL-Pro Suite to install.










