Scan Documents Longer than Letter Size

Load your document.

Note

Load only one document at a time.

Click the

(ControlCenter4) icon in the task tray and then select Open from the menu.

The ControlCenter4 window will appear.

Note

You can also start ControlCenter4 by doing one of the following:

•	(Windows^® XP, Windows Vista^®) Double-click the (ControlCenter4) icon in the task tray.
•	Click ControlCenter4 located in Start/All Programs/Brother/ADS-XXXX (where XXXX is your model name).

Select the Scan tab.

Do one of the following:

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Select Photo, Text and Graph, or Monochrome Text in the Document Type option for the type of original you want to scan.

•	Photo: 600 × 600 dpi, 24bit Color
•	Text and Graph: 300 × 300 dpi, 24bit Color
•	Monochrome Text: 200 × 200 dpi, Black and White

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Select Custom in the Document Type option and then configure the scan settings in detail. See Custom Scan Settings.

Select Long Paper (Normal Width) or Long Paper (Narrow Width) from the Scan Size drop-down list.

Note

•	Each Long Paper option can scan a large document up to the following size: Long Paper (Normal Width): 8 1/2 × 34.0 in. (215.9 × 863.0 mm) Long Paper (Narrow Width): 4 1/4 × 34.0 in. (107.9 × 863.0 mm)
•	If you cannot select Long Paper, uncheck the Duplex(two-sided) Scanning and Auto Deskew check box.

Click the

(Scan) button. The machine starts scanning, and then the Scanning Completed dialog box will appear and display the number of scanned pages. The scanned image appears in the image viewer.

Note

If the Scanning Completed dialog box does not appear and you want to display the number of scanned pages, check the Display Scanning Results check box.

Note

Support the document with your hand if the document is longer than the Top Cover.

Do one of the following:

•	Click the (Save) button to save the scanned data. See Save Scanned Documents.
•	Click the (Open with an Application) button to open the scanned data in another application. See Open with an Application.
•	Click the (Send E-mail) button to attach the scanned data to an E-mail. See Send E-mail.
•	Click the (OCR) button to scan to an editable text file. See Scan to Editable Text File (OCR).

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