2 Scanning

The scanning operations and drivers will be different depending on your operating system. The machine uses a TWAIN compliant driver for scanning documents from your applications.

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(Windows^® XP/ Windows Vista^®)

Two scanner drivers are installed. A TWAIN compliant scanner driver (See Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver.) and a Windows^® Imaging Acquisition (WIA) driver. (See Scanning a document using the WIA driver (Windows^® XP/Windows Vista^®).)

Note

•	For ScanSoft™ PaperPort™ 11SE, see Using ScanSoft™ PaperPort™ 11SE with OCR by NUANCE™.
•	If your PC is protected by a firewall, and is unable to network scan, you may need to configure the firewall settings to allow communication through port number 54925 and 137. (See Firewall settings (For Network users).)

Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver

The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. TWAIN drivers meet the standard universal protocol for communicating between scanners and applications. This means that you can not only scan images directly into the PaperPort™ 11SE viewer that Brother included with your machine, but you can also scan images directly into hundreds of other software applications that support TWAIN scanning. These applications include popular programs like Adobe^® Photoshop^®, Adobe^® PageMaker^®, CorelDRAW^® and many more.

Scanning a document into the PC

There are two ways in which you can scan a whole page. You can either use the ADF (automatic document feeder) or the scanner glass.

Load your document.

Start the ScanSoft™ PaperPort™ 11SE software that was installed during the MFL-Pro Suite installation to scan a document.

Note

The instructions for scanning in this Guide are for when you use ScanSoft™ PaperPort™ 11SE. The scanning steps may vary when using other software applications.

Click File, then Scan or Get Photo.... You can also click the Scan or Get Photo button.

The Scan or Get Photo panel appears on the left side of the screen.

Click the Select button.

Choose the scanner you are using from the Available Scanners list.

Note

Choose TWAIN:TW-Brother MFC-XXXX (TWAIN:TW-Brother DCP-XXXX), TWAIN:TW-Brother MFC-XXXX LPT (TWAIN:TW-Brother DCP-XXXX LPT) or TWAIN:TW-Brother MFC-XXXX LAN (TWAIN:TW-Brother DCP-XXXX LAN).

Check the Display scanner dialog box on the Scan or Get Photo panel.

Click Scan.

The Scanner Setup dialog box appears.

Adjust the following settings, if needed, in the Scanner Setup dialog box:

•	Scan (Image Type) (1)
•	Resolution (2)
•	Scan Type (3)
•	Reduce Noise (4)
•	Brightness (5)
•	Contrast (6)
•	Document Size (7)
•	Duplex(two-sided) Scanning (8) (Not available for the MFC-8480DN)

Click Start.

When scanning is finished, click Cancel to return to the PaperPort™ 11SE window.

Note

•	After you select a document size, you can adjust the scanning area further by clicking the left mouse button and dragging it. This is required when you want to crop an image when scanning. (See Pre-Scanning to crop a portion you want to scan.)
•	For models that support duplex scanning You cannot adjust the scanning area. You cannot use legal size paper for duplex scanning. You cannot use the PreScan button to preview an image.

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