Brother MFC-9880 Setup Guide download pdf (Page 2)

For Windows

95/98/98SE/Me/2000 Users

Setting Up the MFC and PC to Work Together

Before You begin

• You must set up the hardware and install the Brother Drivers before you can use your MFC as a printer and scanner in any Windows

application.

• Please purchase the appropriate cable if you intend to use USB. Bonus IEEE 1284 Bi-directional parallel cable is included. (USB cable is not included.)

Use only a shielded parallel interface cable that is IEEE 1284-compliant and/or a USB cable that is no longer than 6 feet long (1.8 meters)

Follow the instructions in this guide for your operating system and interface.

Step 1.

Unplug the MFC from the AC outlet and disconnect your MFC from your computer if

you have already connected an interface cable.

Step 2.

Turn on your computer.

For Windows

2000 Professional, you must be logged on as the Administrator.

Step 3.

Insert the CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.

*1 MFC Software Suite includes Printer Driver, Scanner Driver, ScanSoft

™

PaperPort

, ScanSoft

™

Text Bridge

, PC-FAX software, Remote Setup and

True Type fonts. PaperPort

is a document management application for

viewing scanned documents. ScanSoft

™

TextBridge

, which is integrated into

PaperPort

, is an OCR application that converts an image into text and

inserts it into your default word processor package.

2. Click Install Software.

7. When the Choose Destination

Location window displays the path

where the PaperPort

files will be

installed, either change or accept,

and then click Next.

11. The Connect Cable window will

appear.

3. Click MFC Software Suite in Main

Application. Please see Note *1.

8. When the Register Today screen

appears, click Next. This is

registration for Paper Port

. Follow

the instructions.

5. The InstallShield Wizard Setup

window will appear briefly, followed

by the PaperPort

Setup window.

Click Yes.

9. When the MFC Software Suite

Installation window appears, click

Next to begin installing the MFC

Software Suite. Please see Note *2.

6. When the PaperPort

Setup window

displays your Name and Company,

either change or accept them, and

then click Next.

10. When the Setup Type window

appears, select Standard, and then

click Next. The application files will

be copied to your computer.

*2 If an error message appears during the

installation process, or you have previously

installed MFC Software Suite or MFL Pro,

you will first have to uninstall it. From the

Start menu, select Programs, Brother,

Brother MFL Pro, Uninstall, and then

follow the instructions on the screen.

*3 Even if you select NO, later you will be able

to launch the Brother Control Centre to use

the Scan keys. See

AutoLoad the Brother

Control Centre

, Chapter 13 in the Owner’s

Manual on the CD-ROM.

For Parallel

For USB

– 2 –

1. Insert the MFC Software Suite

CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.

The CD-ROM main menu will appear.

If any window does not appear after

you insert the CD-ROM into the

CD-ROM drive, use Windows

Explorer to run the setup.exe

program from the root directory of the

Brother CD-ROM.

Please see NEXT PAGE

4. Click Install.

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