Brother DCP-7020- User Manual

iv 7 Using your machine with a Macintosh ® Setting up your USB-equipped Apple ® Macintosh ® ................................................. 7-1 Using the Brother printer driver with your Apple ® Macintosh ® (Mac OS ® X) ...........7-2 Choosing page setup options ......................................

1 1 1 - 1 Using the Brother printer driver A Printer Driver is software that translates data from the format used by a computer into the format required by a particular printer, using a printer command language or page description language. The printer drivers are on the CD-ROM we have supplied. Ins...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 2 1 Printing from the manual feed slot Note ■ The machine automatically turns on the Manual Feed mode when you put paper in the manual feed slot. ■ The machine illustrations are of the MFC-7420 or MFC-7820N, but the descriptions apply to all the models. 1 Set the P...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 3 1 Manual Duplex Printing The machine prints all the even-numbered pages on one side of the paper first. Then, the Windows ® driver instructs you (with a pop-up message) to reinsert the paper. Before reinserting the paper, straighten it well, or you may get a pape...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 4 1 Popular Printer Emulation Support (MFC-7225N and MFC-7820N only) The MFC-7225N and MFC-7820N support HP LaserJet (PCL level 6) and the BR-Script 3 (PostScript ® 3 ™ ) printer emulation modes. If you use DOS application software, you can use the HP LaserJet (PCL...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 5 1 Printing the Print Configuration List You can print a list of current printer settings. 1 Press Menu/Set , 4 , 2 , 2 . 2 Press Start . The machine prints the settings. 3 Press Stop/Exit . Restoring default settings You can return the machine to the default sett...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 6 1 Printer driver settings (For Windows ® ) Note For Macintosh ® users, see Using the Brother printer driver with your Apple ® Macintosh ® (Mac OS ® X) on page 7-2 or Using the Brother printer driver with your Apple ® Macintosh ® (Mac OS ® 9.1 to 9.2) on page 7-4....

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 7 1 Features in the PCL printer driver (For Windows ® ) Basic tab 1 Select the Paper Size , Multiple Page , Border Line (if any) and Orientation . 2 Select number of Copies and Media Type . 3 Select the Paper Source ( First Page and Other Pages ). 4 Click the OK bu...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 9 1 Advanced tab Change the tab settings by selecting one of the following icons: 1 Print Quality 2 Duplex 3 Watermark 4 Page Setting 5 Device Options Note To return to the default settings, click the Default button. 1 2 3 4 5

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 10 1 Print Quality Resolution You can change the resolution as follows: ■ HQ 1200 (DCP-7020, MFC-7420, MFC-7820N and MFC-7225N) ■ 1200 x 600 (MFC-7220) ■ 600 dpi ■ 300 dpi Toner Save Mode You can save running costs by turning on the Toner Save Mode, which reduces t...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 11 1 Duplex The PCL printer driver supports manual duplex printing. Manual Duplex Check Manual Duplex . In this mode, the machine prints all the even numbered pages first. Then the printer driver stops and shows the instructions required to re-install the paper. Wh...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 12 1 Watermark You can place a logo or text into your document as a Watermark. You can select one of the preset Watermarks, or you can use a bitmap file or text file that you have created. Check Use Watermark , and then select the watermark you want to use. Transpa...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 13 1 Page Setting Scaling You can change the print size of your document with the Scaling feature. ■ Check Off if you want to print the document as it appears on your screen. ■ Check Fit to Paper Size if your document has an unusual size, or if you have only the st...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 14 1 Quick Print Setup The Quick Print Setup feature allows you to quickly select driver settings. To view settings, simply click your mouse button on the task tray icon. This feature can be set to On or Off from the Device Options . Status Monitor This reports the...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 15 1 Administrator (For Windows ® 98/98SE/Me Users Only) The administrator selection permits the Copy, Scaling and Watermark features to be locked and password protected. Note Record your password and keep it in a safe place for future reference. If you forget your...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 16 1 Print Date & Time When enabled the Print Date & Time feature, it will print the date and time on your document from your computer’s system clock. Click the Setting button to change the Date , Time , Position and Font . To include a background with the ...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 17 1 Support tab The Support Tab provides driver version and setting information. In addition there are links to the Brother Solutions Center and the Driver Update Web sites. Click the Support tab to display the following screen: Brother Solutions Center The Brothe...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 18 1 Features in the PS (PostScript ® ) Brother printer driver (MFC-7225N and MFC-7820N only) (For Windows ® ) The BR-Script 3 (PostScript ® 3 ™ language emulation) driver supports Windows ® 98/98SE/Me/2000 Professional/XP and Windows NT ® 4.0. To install the PS dr...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 19 1 Layout tab If you are using Windows NT ® 4.0, Windows ® 2000 or XP, you can access the Layout tab by clicking Printing Preferences... in the General tab of the Brother MFC-XXXX BR-Script3 Properties screen. The Layout tab enables you to change various layout s...

Using the machine as a printer 1 - 20 1 Status Monitor (Windows ® only) The Status Monitor utility is a configurable software tool that allows you to monitor the status of one or more devices, allowing you to get immediate notification of errors such as paper empty or paper jam. How to turn on the s...

2 2 2 - 1 Note The scanning operations and drivers will be different depending on your operating system. For Windows ® XP Two scanner drivers are installed. Windows Imaging Acquisition (WIA) driver (See Scanning a document using WIA driver (For Windows ® XP only) on page 2-2.) and a TWAIN compliant ...

How to scan using Windows ® 2 - 2 2 Scanning a document using WIA driver (For Windows ® XP only) WIA compliant Windows ® XP uses Windows ® Image Acquisition (WIA) for scanning images from the machine. You can scan images directly into the PaperPort ® 9.0SE viewer that Brother included with your mach...

How to scan using Windows ® 2 - 4 2 Scanning a document into the PC (DCP-7020, MFC-7420 and MFC-7820N Only) There are two ways in which you can scan a whole page. You can either use the ADF (automatic document feeder) or the Flatbed scanner glass. If you would like to scan and then crop a portion of...

How to scan using Windows ® 2 - 7 2 Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver TWAIN compliant The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. TWAIN drivers meet the standard universal protocol for communicating between scanners and software applications. This means tha...

How to scan using Windows ® 2 - 8 2 Scanning a document into the PC You can scan a whole page — OR — Scan a portion of the page after pre-scanning the document. Scanning a whole page 1 Load your document. 2 Adjust the following settings, if required, in the Scanner window: • Image Type (A) • Resolut...

How to scan using Windows ® 2 - 10 2 Settings in the Scanner window Image Type Select the image type of output from Photo , Web or Text . Resolution and Scan Type will be altered for each default setting. The default settings are: (For DCP-7020, MFC-7420 and MFC-7820N) (For MFC-7220 and MFC-7225N) R...

How to scan using Windows ® 2 - 11 2 Scan Type Brightness Adjust the setting (-50 to 50) to obtain the best image. The default value is 0, representing an ‘average’. You can set the level by dragging the slide bar to the right or left to lighten or darken the image. You can also type a value in the ...

How to scan using Windows ® 2 - 12 2 Document Size Set the size to one of the following: ■ A4 210 x 297 mm ■ JIS B5 182 x 257 mm ■ Letter 8 1/2 x 11 in ■ Legal 8 1/2 x 14 in ■ A5 148 x 210 mm ■ Executive 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 in ■ Business Card ■ Photo 4 x 6 in ■ Index Card 5 x 8 in ■ Photo L 89 x 127 mm ■...

How to scan using Windows ® 2 - 13 2 Using the Scan key (For USB or Parallel cable users) Note If you use the Scan key on a network, please refer to Using the Scan key on page 6-3. You can use the Scan key on the control panel to scan documents into your word processing, graphics or E-mail applicati...

How to scan using Windows ® 2 - 14 2 Scan to Image You can scan a picture into your graphics application for viewing and editing. You can change the scan configuration. (See Image (example: Microsoft Paint) on page 3-4.) 1 Load your document. 2 Press Scan . 3 Press ▲ or ▼ to select Scan to Image . P...

How to scan using Windows ® 2 - 16 2 Viewing items ScanSoft ® PaperPort ® 9.0SE provides several ways to view items: Desktop View displays a thumbnail (a small graphic that represents each item in a Desktop or folder). Items in the selected folder appear on the PaperPort ® 9.0SE Desktop. You can see...

How to scan using Windows ® 2 - 17 2 Quick links to other applications ScanSoft ® PaperPort ® 9.0SE automatically recognizes many other applications on your computer and creates a “working link” to them. The Send To Bar at the bottom of the Desktop view shows icons of those linked applications. To u...

How to scan using Windows ® 2 - 18 2 Exporting items in other formats You can export or save PaperPort ® 9.0SE items in several popular file formats, such as BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PDF or self-viewing. For example, to create a file for an Internet Web site, export it as a JPEG file. Web pages often use JP...

3 3 3 - 1 ControlCenter2.0 ControlCenter2.0 is a software utility that allows you to quickly and easily access your frequently used applications. Using ControlCenter2.0 eliminates the need to manually launch the specific applications. ControlCenter2.0 provides the following six categories of operati...

Using ControlCenter2.0 (For Windows ® ) 3 - 3 3 COPY Copy — allows you to use the PC and any printer driver for enhanced copy operations. You can scan the page on the machine and print the copies using any of the features of the machine printer driver— OR —you can direct the copy output to any stand...

Using ControlCenter2.0 (For Windows ® ) 3 - 4 3 SCAN This section contains four buttons for Scan to Image , Scan to OCR , Scan to E-mail and Scan to File applications. These four selections can be accessed from ControlCenter2.0 or from the Scan key on the control panel of the machine. The target app...

Using ControlCenter2.0 (For Windows ® ) 3 - 6 3 File attachments You can choose from the following list of file types for attachment to your E-mail or for saving to a folder. File Type — Select from the pull-down list the type of file you want the scanned images to be saved in. Windows Bitmap (*.bmp...

Using ControlCenter2.0 (For Windows ® ) 3 - 7 3 CUSTOM SCAN There are four buttons from which you can set your own preferences and configuration to fit your required usage for scanning. To configure a button, right-click on the button, and the configuration window will appear. You have four function...

Using ControlCenter2.0 (For Windows ® ) 3 - 8 3 Customizing a user-defined button To configure a button, right-click on the button, and the configuration window will appear. Please read the following guidelines to configure the button. Scan to Image: In the General tab You can enter up to a 30 chara...

Using ControlCenter2.0 (For Windows ® ) 3 - 13 3 Address Book The Address Book button allows you to configure add/amend or delete contacts from your address book. By clicking the button, the address book window will open for your editing. (See Brother Address Book on page 5-6.) Setup By clicking the...

Using ControlCenter2.0 (For Windows ® ) 3 - 14 3 DEVICE SETTING (not available for DCP-7020) In this section you can configure the machine settings by clicking the button. Note When the machine is connected to a network, you cannot use this function. Remote Setup The Remote Setup button allows you t...

4 4 4 - 1 MFC Remote Setup The MFC Remote Setup application enables you to configure many MFC settings from a Windows ® application. When you access this application, the settings on your machine will be downloaded to your PC and displayed on your computer screen. If you change the settings, you can...

Using Brother PC-FAX software (For Windows ® ) 5 - 2 5 Sending setup From the Brother PC-FAX Setup dialog box, click the Sending tab. The user has the choice of two user interfaces: Simple style or Facsimile style. To change the user interface select the interface setting you want: Simple style or F...

Using Brother PC-FAX software (For Windows ® ) 5 - 3 5 User interface In the Sending tab, select the user interface you wish to use. You can choose the Simple Style or the Facsimile Style . Simple style Facsimile style

Using Brother PC-FAX software (For Windows ® ) 5 - 5 5 Setting up a Cover Page From the PC-FAX dialog box, click to access the PC-Fax Cover page setup screen. The Brother PC-FAX Cover Page Setup dialog box will appear: Entering Cover Page Information To From Comment Type the comment you want to add ...

Using Brother PC-FAX software (For Windows ® ) 5 - 6 5 Speed-Dial setup From the Brother PC-FAX Setup dialog box, click the Speed-Dial tab. (To use this feature, you must select the Facsimile Style user interface.) You can register a Member or Group on each of the ten Speed-Dial buttons. To register...

Using Brother PC-FAX software (For Windows ® ) 5 - 7 5 Setting up a Member in the Address Book In the Brother Address Book dialog box you can add, edit and delete stored information of Members and Groups. 1 In the Address Book dialog box, click the icon to add a Member. The Brother Address Book Memb...

Using Brother PC-FAX software (For Windows ® ) 5 - 8 5 Deleting a Member or Group 1 Select the Member or Group you want to delete. 2 Click the delete icon. 3 When the Confirm Item Delete dialog box appears, click OK . Exporting the Address Book You can export the whole Address Book to an ASCII text ...

Using Brother PC-FAX software (For Windows ® ) 5 - 9 5 Importing to the Address Book You can import ASCII text files (*.csv) or Vcards (electronic business cards) into your Address Book. To import an ASCII text file: 1 From the Address Book select File , point to Import , and then click Text . — OR ...

Using Brother PC-FAX software (For Windows ® ) 5 - 10 5 Sending a file as a PC-FAX using the Facsimile style user interface 1 Create a file in Word, Excel, Paint, Draw or any other application on your PC. 2 From the File menu, select Print . The Print dialog box will appear: 3 Select Brother PC-FAX ...

Using Brother PC-FAX software (For Windows ® ) 5 - 11 5 Sending a file as a PC-FAX using the Simple style user interface 1 Create a file in Word, Excel, Paint, Draw or any other application on your PC. 2 From the File menu, select Print . The Print dialog box will appear: 3 Select Brother PC-FAX as ...

Using Brother PC-FAX software (For Windows ® ) 5 - 12 5 Setting up PC-FAX receiving The PC-FAX Receive function will automatically upload incoming faxes received by your machine to your PC for viewing, printing or deleting. Note ■ Before you use the PC-FAX Receive function, you must select the optio...

Using Brother PC-FAX software (For Windows ® ) 5 - 13 5 Viewing new PC-FAX messages Each time you start to receive a PC-FAX, the icon will flash blue and red. Once the fax has been received the icon will remain red. The red icon will change to green once the received fax has been viewed. Double-clic...

6 6 6 - 1 To use the machine as a Network Scanner, the Network must be configured with a TCP/IP address that matches your network. You can set or change the settings from the control panel. (Please see the Network User's Guide on the CD-ROM.) Network License MFC-7225N and MFC-7820N include the PC li...

Network Scanning (For Windows ® ) 6 - 3 6 Using the Scan key Scan to E-mail When you select Scan to E-mail your document will be scanned and sent directly to the PC you designated on your network. ControlCenter2.0 will activate the default E-mail application on the designated PC for addressing to th...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 2 7 Using the Brother printer driver with your Apple ® Macintosh ® (Mac OS ® X) Choosing page setup options 1 From application software such as TextEdit, click the File menu and select Page Setup . Make sure MFC-XXXX (Where XXXX is your model name) is select...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 3 7 Specific settings You can set the Media Type , Resolution , Toner Save , and other settings. Press Copies & Pages dropdown to select settings you want to change. Print settings Select the Quality and Media Type , and if you want to use Toner Save Mod...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 5 7 Using the PS driver with your Apple ® Macintosh ® (MFC-7225N and MFC-7820N only) Note ■ To use the PS driver on a Network, see the Network User’s Guide on CD-ROM. ■ To use the PS driver with a USB cable, you need to set the Emulation to BR-Script 3 by us...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 7 7 For Mac OS ® 9.1 to 9.2 users 1 Open the Applications (Mac OS 9) folder. Open the Utilities folder*. * The screens are based on Mac OS ® 9.1. 2 Open the Desktop Printer Utility icon. 3 Select Printer (USB) , and then click OK . 4 Click Change... in the P...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 9 7 Sending a fax from your Macintosh ® application (not available for DCP-7020) For Mac OS ® X users You can send a fax directly from a Macintosh ® application. 1 Create a document in a Macintosh ® application. 2 To send a fax, select Print from the File me...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 10 7 5 To address the fax, type a fax number in the Input Fax Number box, and then click Print . Note If you want to send a fax to more than one number, click Add after entering the first fax number. The destination fax numbers will be listed in the dialog b...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 11 7 Drag a vCard from the Mac OS ® X Address Book application You can address the fax number using a vCard (an electronic business card) from Mac OS ® application to the destination fax number field. 1 Click Address Book button. 2 Drag a vCard from the Mac ...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 13 7 Scanning from a Macintosh ® The Brother machine software includes a TWAIN Scanner driver for Macintosh ® . You can use this Macintosh ® TWAIN Scanner driver with any applications that support the TWAIN specification. Note If you want to scan from the ma...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 14 7 Scanning an image into your Macintosh ® You can scan a whole page. — OR — scan a portion after pre-scanning the document. Scanning a whole page 1 Load your document in the ADF. Note If your model is a flatbed type, you can also place your document on th...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 15 7 Pre-Scanning an image Pre-Scanning allows you to scan an image quickly at a low resolution. A thumbnail version will appear in the Scanning Area . This is only a preview of the image, so you can see how it will look. The PreScan button will allow you to...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 16 7 Settings in the Scanner window Image Resolution From the Resolution pop-up menu choose the scanning resolution. Higher resolutions use more memory and transfer time, but produce a finer scanned image. The following list shows the resolution you can choo...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 17 7 Scanning Area Set the Size to one of the following: ■ A4 210 x 297 mm ■ JIS B5 182 x 257 mm ■ Letter 8.5 x 11 in ■ Legal 8.5 x 14 in ■ A5 148 x 210 mm ■ Executive 7.25 x 10.5 in ■ Business Card ■ Photo 4 x 6 in ■ Index Card 5 x 8 in ■ Photo L 89 x 127 m...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 18 7 Adjusting the Image Brightness Adjust the Brightness setting to get the best image. The Brother TWAIN Scanner driver offers 100 Brightness levels (-50 to 50). The default value is 0, representing an ‘average’ setting. You can set the Brightness level by...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 19 7 Configuring Network Scanning (MFC-7225N and MFC-7820N or models with the optional NC-2200w only) If you want to scan from the machine on a network, you must select the networked machine in the Device Selector application located in Macintosh HD/Library/...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 20 7 Using the Scan Key For Network users, see Using the Scan key on page 6-3. For USB users, see Using the Scan key (For USB or Parallel cable users) on page 2-13. Note ■ Turn on Register your computer with the “Scan To” functions at the machine and enter a...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 21 7 Using Presto! ® PageManager ® Presto! ® PageManager ® is application software for managing the documents in your computer. Since it is compatible with most image editors and word processing programs, Presto! ® PageManager ® gives you unmatched control o...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 22 7 Technical Support [For USA] [For Canada] [Germany] [UK] Company name: Newsoft America Inc. Postal Address: 4113 Clipper Court FremontCA 94538, USA Telephone: 510-4458600 Fax: 510-4458601 E-mail Address: [email protected] URL: http://www.newsoft.com/ E-m...

Using your machine with a Macintosh ® 7 - 24 7 Using ControlCenter2.0 (For Mac OS ® X 10.2.4 or greater) ControlCenter2.0 is a software utility that allows you to quickly and easily access the most frequently used applications. Using ControlCenter2.0 eliminates the need to manually launch the specif...

I I I - 1 C ControlCenter2.0 Windows ® .................................................. 3-1 D Drivers Macintosh ® printer ............................................... 7-2 , 7-4 PS ............................................................ 7-5 TWAIN ...............................................

These machines are made for use in the USA and CANADA only. We cannot recommend using them overseas because it may violate the Telecommunications Regulations of that country and the power requirements of your multi-function center may not be compatible with the power available in foreign countries. ...