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Printer & PC-FAX Manual
FAX-1800C
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Table of Contents ® 1 Printer Driver Settings (Windows Only) .................................... 1-1 Using the Brother FAX-1800C Printer Driver........................... 1-1 Paper Tab.................................................................................... 1-1 Paper Size ............................................................................ 1-2 Orientation........................................................................... 1-2 Copy/Page Order ..................
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2 Using the Brother Machine as a Printer ....................................... 2-1 Features ...................................................................................... 2-1 Printer Driver.............................................................................. 2-1 Choosing the Right Kind of Paper ............................................. 2-2 Multi-purpose Sheet Feeder ....................................................... 2-2 Simultaneous Printing/Faxing ........
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® 4 Using the Brother Machine with a New Power Macintosh G3, G4 or iMac™/iBook™............................................................. 4-1 ® ® Set Up Your USB-Equipped Apple Macintosh G3, G4 or iMac™ or iBook™ with Mac OS 8.5/8.5.1/8.6/9.0/9.0.4/9.1/9.2.1................................ 4-1 ® ® Using Brother Printer Driver with Your Apple Macintosh .... 4-1 ® Sending a Fax from Your Macintosh Application ................... 4-3 Setting Up Your Address Book..............
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Computer Requirements Minimum System Requirements Processor Minimum Recommended Available Hard Computer Platform Minimum Speed RAM RAM Disk Space* & Operating System Version 98, 98SE Pentium 75MHz 24MB 32MB ® Windows Me Pentium 150MHz 32MB 64MB Operating 30MB 2000 Professional Pentium 133MHz Systems 64MB 128MB XP Pentium 233MHz Mac OS 8.5 – 9.2.1 Apple 32MB 64MB All base models (Printing and PC-FAX) TM TM iMac /iBook / meet minimun 30MB G3/G4 Operating Mac OS X 10.0, 10.1 requirement
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1Printer Driver Settings ® 1 (Windows Only) Using the Brother FAX-1800C 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 screens shown in this section are from Windows 98. The screens on your Note PC may vary depending on your Windows Operating System. For more information, please see the o
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Paper Size You can choose from a large selection of standard paper sizes or you can even create custom sizes ranging form 3.5" × 5" to 8.5" × 14". To select the paper size you want to use, click the icon. Orientation Orientation selects the layout of your document on the printed page (Portrait or Landscape). Copy/Page Order Copies Select the number of copies that will be printed. Collate With the collate check box selected, one complete copy of your document will be printe
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Paper Thickness This setting provides the best positioning of the paper for printing. Depending on the thickness of the paper you are using, you can improve the quality of your output by selecting the appropriate thickness: Regular Thin Thick Thicker For example if you are printing on thin paper, select Thin as the Paper Thickness to get the best paper handling and output for that paper type. Scaling The Scaling feature reduces or enlarges your document f
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Quality/Color Tab The Quality/Color tab screen provides Quality, Media type, Document type, Color/Mono settings, Bi-directional Printing settings and Fast Draft Mode. All of these selections are designed to offer the best quality output for your document. Select the Apply button to apply your selected settings. To return to the default settings, click the Default button, and then click the Apply button. Quality The quality selection allows you to choose the print re
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Media To achieve the best print results, select the media being printed on should be selected in the driver. The Brother machine changes the way it places dots, depending on the selected media type. Paper Type Recommended Print Quality Plain Paper Normal Inkjet Paper Fine Glossy Paper (4 color) Super Fine Glossy Paper (3 color) Super Fine Transparencies Fine Transparencies (mirror) Fine The print quality of black ink varies depending on the kind of glossy paper you Note are using
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Color Matching You can select the color matching method yourself. Select the best one for your document. Match Monitor Suitable for photographic images. Color is adjusted to get the closest color match to the PC monitor. Vivid Color Suitable for business graphics such as charts, graphs, and text. The color is adjusted to give more vivid color. ® ® (For Windows 98/98SE/Me) (For Windows 2000 Professional) Custom Setting You can customize your settings by selecting the type of Halftone or Co
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Cluster This is suitable for business graphics such as charts, graphs and drawings, since this creates sharper printouts. Moreover, the processing time is shorter. Color Enhance Selecting Color Enhance/True2Life ON enables the True2Life feature. This feature analyzes your image to improve quality sharpness, white balance and color density. This process may take several minutes depending on the size of the image and the speed and RAM memory of your computer. Color Enhance/True2Life ON Adj
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Color/Mono This selection allows a color document to be printed in mono only. Bi-Directional Printing When Bi-Directional Printing is selected, the print head prints in both directions and offers faster print speeds. When it is not selected the print head prints in one direction only and provides higher print quality. Fast Draft Mode You can print much more quickly, than mono draft mode, by using both black and cyan ink. Advanced Tab Select the Apply button to apply your selected settings. To
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Print Watermark The Print Watermark feature offers the following print choices: On all pages On first page only From second page Custom In Background With the In background feature checked Watermark will print on the page behind your document. If this feature is not checked then the Watermark will print on top of your document. Watermark Style You can change the Watermark’s size and position on the page by selecting the Watermark and clicking the Edit button. If you want to add a new
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Device Options Set the Print Date & Time in Printer Function: Print Date & Time When enabled, the Print Date and Time feature will print the date and time from your computer’s system clock on your document. Click the Setting button to change the Date and Time Format, Position and Font. To include a background with the Date and Time, select Opaque. When Opaque is selected, you can click the Color button to change the color of the background. The Date and Time in the selection box shows the fo
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Support The Support Tab provides driver version and setup information. In addition there are links to the Brother Solutions Center and Driver Update Web sites. Click the Support tab to display the following screen: Web Update Web Update checks the Brother web site for updated drivers, and then it downloads and updates the printer driver on your computer. Brother Solutions Center The Brother Solutions Center is a Web site offering information about your Brother product including FAQs, User Gu
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2Using the Brother Machine 2 as a Printer Features The FAX-1800C offers many features you’ll find in a high quality ink jet printer. Fast Printing Speed—Using Draft mode, you can print up to 8 pages per minute in full color, and up to 10 pages per minute in black. Brilliant High Quality Output—Printing at 2400 × 1200 dpi resolution on glossy paper gives you highest resolution output. Beautiful Elaborate Output—You can utilize 2 in 1, watermark printing, True2Life technology, and other featu
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Choosing the Right Kind of Paper To achieve high quality printing using your machine, it’s very important to select the right kind of paper. Be sure to read “About Paper” on page 3-1 of the Owner’s Manual before you select and purchase paper. Multi-purpose Sheet Feeder The multi-purpose sheet feeder can feed plain paper, inkjet paper, glossy paper, transparencies and envelopes. When the machine receives data from your computer, it begins the print process by feeding paper from the multi-purp
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Simultaneous Printing/Faxing Your machine can print data from your computer while sending or receiving a fax, or while scanning information into the computer. However, when the machine is copying or receiving a fax on paper, it pauses the PC printing operation, and then resumes printing when copying or fax receiving is finished. Fax sending will continue during PC printing. The Ink Key When you press Ink, the LCD shows: 1.CLEANING If you are having trouble with one of the 2.REPLACE INK ink
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Print Area The print area depends on the settings in the application you are using. The figures below show the unprintable areas on cut sheet paper and envelopes. Cut Sheet Paper Envelopes 3 4 34 1 1 2 2 unprintable area (inches) 2 Paper Type Paper Size 1 3 4 Fax Mono Copy Cut Sheet Letter, Legal 0.12 0.43 0.25 0.25 Color Copy Printer Executive Printer 0.12 0.43 0.13 0.13 Envelopes Printer 0.39 0.79 0.13 0.13 Printer depends on the Printer Driver. Note The above figures are approximate and
