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Download and Save a Document to an External Memory Device Using Brother Web Connect
JPEG, PDF and Microsoft Office files can be downloaded from a service and saved directly on media connected to the machine. Documents that other users have uploaded to their own accounts for sharing can also be downloaded to your machine as long as you have viewing privileges for those documents. Certain services allow guest users to view documents that are public. When accessing a service or an account as a guest user, you can view documents that the owner has made public, that is, documents with no viewing restrictions.
- Make sure there is enough available space on your memory card or USB flash drive.
- To download other users’ documents, you must have access privileges to view the corresponding albums or documents.
- USB flash drive is available only for some models.
- Downloaded files are renamed based on the current date. For example, the first image saved on July 1, would be named 07010001.jpg. Note that the region setting also determines the date format of the file name.
- Images are saved in the “BROTHER” folder, which can be found on the root level of the media.
- IMPORTANT
- DO NOT remove the memory card or USB flash drive while your Brother machine is accessing the media. Otherwise, the card, USB flash drive, or data stored on the card could be damaged.
- Open the media slot cover.
- Insert a memory card or USB flash drive into your machine.The LCD automatically changes.
- Press
or 
to display [Web]. Press [Web].
- If information regarding the Internet connection appears on the machine's LCD, read the information and press [OK].
- Occasionally, updates or announcements about Brother Web Connect's features will appear on the LCD. Read the information, and then press [OK].
- Press
or 
to display the service that hosts the document you want to download. Press the service name.
- Do one of the following:
- To log on to the service, press or to display your account name, and then press it. If the PIN entry screen appears, enter the four-digit PIN and press [OK].
To access the service as a guest user, press
or to display [Use as a GuestUser], and then press it. When the information regarding access as a guest user appears, press [OK].
- Press or to display [Download: Media]. Press [Download: Media].
- If you accessed the service as a guest user, enter or select the account name of the user whose documents you want to download.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to complete this operation.
- An album is a collection of documents. However, the actual term may differ depending on the service you use. When using Evernote®, you must select the notebook, and then select the note.
- Some services do not require documents to be saved in albums. For documents not saved in albums, select [See Unsorted Files] or [See UnsortedPhotos] to select documents. You cannot download documents from other users if the documents are not saved in an album.
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