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HL-5040
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Does NC-2200w work with Windows Vista?
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The printer cannnot print and the error message "There was an error writing to LPT1:(or BRUSB) for the printer." appears on my PC. What should I do?
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I'm experiencing a problem when printing from Adobe® Acrobat®/ Acrobat® Reader®/ Reader®. What can I do to correct this?
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The error message "No Supported Devices Found" appears on the Brother iPrint&Scan (mobile device).
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I want to change the paper tray and paper size settings. How do I change these things?
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My printed documents are incomplete or a blue screen appears when printing or using PC-FAX after a Windows 10 update (March 2021)
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Change the printer driver settings (Windows/macOS)
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I am using Windows 2000 /XP. When I print from Adobe® Reader® 7.0, strange characters are printed on the page. What can I do?
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Printouts have a curl or wave.
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Can I use non-Brother or third party supplies with the Brother machine?
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Cannot print after a Windows 10 update (June 2020)
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The error message "Invalid format for short nick name" appears when printing a document. (Mac OS X 10.5 or greater)
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Install the Windows 7 built-in drivers from the Windows Update provided by Microsoft®.
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What is Status Monitor and how can I turn it on?
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Where is the Manual 2-sided(Duplex) setting option in the Mac OS X 10.3 driver ?
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The printer cannot print full pages of a document. An error message MEMORY FULL is printed.
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I am having a problem trying to use a Brother driver in a Windows Server 2003 environment. I cannot print or scan. What should I do?
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Can I print from DOS applications?
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Print on both sides of the paper.
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How do I install additional memory?
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I cannot install Brother drivers on Debian 10 or later (Linux)
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I'm using FreeBSD. Do you have a driver for FreeBSD? (Linux)
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Delete print jobs from the print queue.
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Can I print from or scan to Android™ Smartphone?
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Can I print from and scan to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad?
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Functions supported in the Windows 7 built-in drivers
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The paper is skewed when it's printed.
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Some characters are missing when printing PDF files from Adobe® Acrobat® / Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® / Adobe® Reader®. What can I do to correct this?
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How to Wake-up the printer.
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When I print from Adobe® Illustrator® with the "Improve Gray Printing" option enabled, the document with halftone setting does not print as expected. What can I do?