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Copying Difficulties
Difficulties
Suggestions
Cannot make a copy. Contact your administrator to check your Secure Function Lock Settings.
Black lines or streaks appear in
copies.
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Black lines on copies are typically caused by dirt or correction fluid on the glass
strip. Clean the glass strip, scanner glass, and the white bar and white plastic
above them.
See Related Information: Clean the Scanner.
Black marks or spots appear in
copies.
Black marks or spots on copies are typically caused by dirt or correction fluid on
the scanner glass. Clean the scanner glass and white plastic above it.
See Related Information: Clean the Scanner.
Copies are blank. Make sure you are loading the document correctly.
See Related Information: Load Documents in the Automatic Document Feeder
(ADF).
See Related Information: Load Documents on the Scanner Glass.
Poor copy results when using the
ADF.
Try using the scanner glass.
See Related Information: Load Documents on the Scanner Glass.
Paper size of copies is larger than
expected when using the ADF.
The ADF document sensor may detect the wrong document size. Clean the ADF
document sensor.
See Related Information: Clean the ADF Document Sensor.
Fit to Page does not work
correctly.
Make sure the document is not skewed on the scanner glass. Reposition the
document and try again.
The machine may not detect the document size correctly for some documents,
such as dark-color documents and transparencies. Therefore, Fit to Page may
not work.
Select an enlargement or reduction ratio other than Fit to Page according to the
sizes of your document and paper.
Smudge or stain on the reverse
side of the page when using the
automatic 2-sided copy feature.
Change the print setting options.
See Related Information: Change the Print Setting Options When Having Printing
Problems.
Scanning Difficulties
Difficulties
Suggestions
TWAIN or WIA errors appear
when starting to scan.
(Windows
®
)
Make sure the Brother TWAIN or WIA driver is selected as the primary source in
your scanning application. For example, in Nuance
™
PaperPort
™
14SE, click
Desktop > Scan Settings > Select to choose the Brother TWAIN/WIA driver.
OCR does not work. Try increasing the scanning resolution.
Poor scanning results when using
the ADF. (Black lines appear in
the scanned data.)
Clean the white bar and the glass strip underneath it.
See Related Information: Clean the Scanner.
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