User Manual
Table Of Contents
- SOFTWARE USER’S GUIDE
- Applicable models
- Definitions of notes
- Compilation and publication notice
- IMPORTANT NOTE
- Table of Contents
- Windows®
- 1 Printing
- Using the Brother printer driver
- Features
- Choosing the right type of paper
- Simultaneous printing, scanning and faxing
- Clearing data from the memory
- Status Monitor
- Printer driver settings
- Accessing the printer driver settings
- Basic tab
- Advanced tab
- Print Profiles tab
- Support
- Trial Photo Print (Not available for MFC-J430W/J432W/J5910DW)
- Using FaceFilter Studio for photo printing by REALLUSION
- Using Homepage Print 2 by Corpus (Not available for MFC-J5910DW)
- 2 Scanning
- Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver
- Scanning a document using the WIA driver
- Scanning a document using the WIA driver (Windows® Photo Gallery and Windows® Fax and Scan users)
- Using ScanSoft™ PaperPort™12SE with OCR by NUANCE™ (Not available for DCP-J525W)
- Using BookScan Enhancer and Whiteboard Enhancer by REALLUSION
- 3 ControlCenter4
- Overview
- Using ControlCenter4 in Home Mode
- Photo tab
- Scan tab
- PC-FAX tab (For MFC models)
- Device Settings tab
- Support tab
- Using ControlCenter4 in Advanced Mode
- Scan tab
- PC-Copy tab
- Photo tab
- PC-FAX tab (For MFC models)
- Device Settings tab
- Support tab
- Custom tab
- 4 Remote Setup (For MFC-J625DW/J825DW/J5910DW)
- 5 Brother PC-FAX Software (MFC models only)
- 6 PhotoCapture Center™ (For MFC-J625DW/J825DW/J5910DW/DC P-J725DW/J925DW)
- 7 Firewall settings (For Network users)
- 1 Printing
- Apple Macintosh
- 8 Printing and Faxing
- 9 Scanning
- 10 ControlCenter2
- 11 Remote Setup & PhotoCapture Center™
- Using the Scan key
- 12 USB cable scanning
- 13 Network Scanning
- Before using Network Scanning
- Using the Scan key on your network
- Scan to E-mail (PC)
- Scan to E-mail (E-mail Server) (For MFC-J5910DW)
- Scan to Image
- Scan to OCR (Not available for DCP-J525W)
- Scan to File
- Scan to FTP (For MFC-J5910DW)
- Scan to FTP using FTP Server Profiles (For MFC-J5910DW)
- Scan to Network (For MFC-J5910DW)
- Scan to Network using Scan to Network Profiles (For MFC-J5910DW)
- Using Web Services for scanning on your network (Windows Vista® SP2 or later and Windows® 7)
- Printing on a Disc
- Index
- brother UK
Printing and Faxing
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Status Monitor 8
The Status Monitor utility is a configurable software tool for monitoring the status of the machine, letting you
see error messages such as paper empty, paper jam or ink replacement required at pre-set update intervals.
Before you can use the tool you must choose your machine in the Model drop-down list in ControlCenter2.
You can check the device status by launching Brother Status Monitor follow these steps:
(Mac OS X 10.4.11)
a Run the Printer Setup Utility (from the Go menu, choose Applications, Utilities), then choose the
machine.
b Click the Utility. The Status Monitor will start up.
(Mac OS X 10.5.x)
a Run the System Preferences, select Print & Fax, then choose the machine.
b Click the Open Print Queue, then click Utility. The Status Monitor will start up.
(Mac OS X 10.6.x)
a Run the System Preferences, select Print & Fax, then choose the machine.
b Click the Open Print Queue, then click Printer Setup. Select the Utility tab then click
Open Printer Utility. The Status Monitor will start up.
You can also check the device status by clicking the Ink Level icon in the DEVICE SETTINGS tab of
ControlCenter2 or by launching the Brother Status Monitor located in
Macintosh HD/Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities.
Updating the machine’s status
If you want the latest machine status while the Status Monitor window is open, click the update button (1).
You can set at what interval the software will update the machine status information. Go to the menu bar,
Brother Status Monitor and choose Preferences.
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