Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

IMPORTANT

For technical help, you must call the country where you bought the machine. Calls must be made from within that country.

If you think there is a problem with your machine, check the chart below and follow the troubleshooting tips.

Most problems can be easily resolved by yourself. If you need additional help, the Brother Solutions Center offers the latest FAQs and troubleshooting tips.

Visit us at http://solutions.brother.com/.

Using non-Brother supplies may affect the scan quality, hardware performance, and machine reliability.

If you are having difficulty with your machine

Scanning Difficulties

Difficulty

Cause

Suggestions

 

TWAIN or WIA errors

TWAIN or WIA driver has not been

Make sure the Brother TWAIN or WIA driver is

 

appear when starting

chosen as the primary source in your

chosen as the primary source in your scanning

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to scan. (Windows®)

scanning application.

application. For example, in Nuance™

 

 

 

PaperPort™ 12SE, click Scan Settings and then

 

 

 

Select to select the Brother TWAIN/WIA driver.

 

TWAIN errors appear

TWAIN driver has not been chosen as

Make sure the Brother TWAIN driver is chosen as

 

when starting to scan.

the primary source in your scanning

the primary source.

 

(Macintosh)

application.

In Presto! PageManager, click File, Select Source

 

 

 

and select the Brother TWAIN driver.

 

 

 

Mac OS X v10.6.8, 10.7.x and 10.8.x users can also

 

 

 

scan documents using the ICA Scanner Driver.

 

 

 

 

 

OCR does not work.

The scanner resolution is too low.

Increase the scanner resolution.

 

 

(Macintosh users)

(Macintosh users)

 

 

Presto! PageManager has not been

Make sure you have installed Presto!

 

 

installed on your computer.

PageManager from the supplied DVD-ROM on

 

 

 

your computer.

 

 

 

 

 

Vertical lines are seen

Paper dust has accumulated on the

Clean the glass strips inside the machine. See

 

in the scanned image.

surface of the glass strips.

Clean the Scanner on page 176.

 

 

 

 

 

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