12 USB cable scanning

Using the Scan key over a USB cable connection

Note

If you use the SCAN key on a network, see Network Scanning uu page 200.

You can use the (SCAN) key on the control panel or Scan on the touchscreen to scan documents

directly into your word processing, graphics or E-mail applications, to a folder on your computer, to a memory card or USB Flash memory drive (for MFC-J625DW/J825DW/J835DW).

Before you can use the (SCAN) key or Scan, you must install the Brother MFL-Pro software suite and connect the machine to your computer. If you installed the MFL-Pro Suite from the included CD-ROM, then

the correct drivers and the ControlCenter software are installed. Scanning using the (SCAN) key or Scan uses the configuration of the Device Scan Settings screen of ControlCenter4 or Device Button tab of ControlCenter2. (For Windows®, see Scan tab uu page 66 when choosing Home Mode, see Scan tab

uupage 79 when choosing Advanced Mode. For Macintosh, see SCAN uu page 166.) For details about

how to configure the scan settings and to launch the application of your choice using the (SCAN) key or Scan, see ControlCenter4 uu page 60 (Windows®) or ControlCenter2 uu page 164 (Macintosh).

Scan to E-mail

You can scan either a black and white or color document into your E-mail application as a file attachment.

For MFC-J825DW/J835DW

a Load your document.

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b Press

(SCAN).

 

c Press d or c to choose to Email.

d Press Black Start or Color Start.

The machine starts scanning the document, creates a file attachment, and launches your E-mail application, displaying the new message waiting to be addressed.

For MFC-J280W/J625DW

a Load your document.

b Press (SCAN) or Scan.

c Press a or b to display Scan to email. d Press Scan to email.

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