Scan to an E-mail Attachment

You can scan a document to your default E-mail application, so you can send the scanned document as an attachment.

Load your document.

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:

•

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

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

•

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

Change the scan size if needed (see Change the Scan Size).

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.

Click the left or right arrow buttons to preview each scanned document.

Crop the scanned image if needed (see Crop Scanned Image).

Click the

(Send E-mail) button.

Configure the attached file settings and click the OK button.

Your default E-mail application will open and the image will be attached to a new, blank E-mail.

Page Top