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Copy (16) All one colour Colour misregistration Coloured lines across the page Coloured spots at 94 mm (3.7 in.) intervals or at 30 mm (1.2 in.) intervals Coloured streaks or bands down the page Completely blank or some colours are missing. Offset image Poor fixing The paper comes out of the machine curled or wavy. The printed page is wrinkled when it come out of the machine. The rainbow cursor keeps spinning when I click on Copy/PC-FAX in ControlCenter2 (For Mac OS X 10.7). Toner scatter or toner stain Uneven density appears periodically across the page. White lines, bands or ribbing across the page White spots or hollow print White streaks or bands down the page More
Error Messages (59) "MFC is Busy" or "Connection Fail" error message appears. "Offline" appears on the Status Monitor. Belt End Soon Cartridge Error Condensation Cover is Open appears on the LCD. Document Jam Drum Error (Drum!) Drum Stop Duplex Disabled I cannot scan via network getting the error "CC031" or "MTW012". (Mac OS X) I don't think I got the full yield from my high-yield toner cartridge, but the message "Toner Life End" or"Replace Toner" is displayed on the machine or the LED is on or flashing. I get an error "Print Queue is stopped" using Mac OSX 10.2-10.4 I just replaced the toner cartridge and the LCD continues to display the message "Toner Life End" or "ReplaceToner". I keep getting the error message "Authenticat Err (Authentication error)". I still receive the error message "Replace Parts Drum" or "Drum Stop" after I replace the drum unit with a new one. I try to configure "Common Name" using the IP address but cannot access the Print Server in Safari with SSL after Icreated a CSR or a Self-signed Certificate (macOS) I'm trying to install the driver with network settings, but the installation wizard is not able to locate the Brother machineon my network, I'm getting the message "No devices could be found over the network". Jam Duplex Jam Inside Jam MP Tray Jam Rear Jam Tray 1 / Jam Tray 2 My Antivirus Software gives a warning message during the installation of Web BRAdmin. No Belt Unit No Drum Unit No Paper No Toner No Tray No Waste Toner Out of Memory Print Unable XX Registration or Registration Failed. Replace Belt Replace Drum Replace Parts Replace Toner Replace WT Box Scan Unable xx Short Paper Size Error DX Size mismatch Small Paper The error message "Invalid format for short nick name" appears when printing a document. (Mac OS X 10.5 or greater) The error message "IS052 InstallNetworkDriver" appears when installing the MFL-Pro Suite from the CD-ROM or the FullDriver & Software Package is downloaded from the "Downloads" section. The error message "No Supported Devices Found" appears on the Brother iPrint&Scan screen (mobile device). The message "[file name] can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer." appears on OS X v10.8.x. The scanned data is attached to an E-mail application which I do not use regularly, or the error message indicating no defaultE-mail application is registered on my computer (CC4-121-[error code]) when trying to scan a document directly into my E-mailapplication using ControlCenter4 or the SCAN key on my Brother machine. Toner Error Toner Low Tray 2 Error Unusable Device When I install the drivers, Norton AntiVirus displays a Security Alert that a medium risk application "[file name].exe isattempting to connect to a DNS server". When I run the Firmware update tool or the I-FAX install tool, the "Program failed to run" message appears on my PCscreen. What do I do? When I send a fax from the machine, an error "not register." or "not registered." is displayed. When I try to scan to OCR I get the message "This feature is not available because there is no OCR Softwareinstalled" When I try to scan using ControlCenter4 or ControlCenter3 for Windows, I receive the error message "Error CC3-202","Error CC4-202", "Error CC3-205" or "Error CC4-205". Wrong Paper Size WT Box End Soon More
Fax (18) All one colour Colour misregistration Coloured lines across the page Coloured spots at 94 mm (3.7 in.) intervals or at 30 mm (1.2 in.) intervals Coloured streaks or bands down the page Completely blank or some colours are missing. I installed the Full Driver & Software Package, but some applications were not installed. (For Windows 10) Offset image Poor fixing The paper comes out of the machine curled or wavy. The printed page is wrinkled when it come out of the machine. The rainbow cursor keeps spinning when I click on Copy/PC-FAX in ControlCenter2 (For Mac OS X 10.7). Toner scatter or toner stain Uneven density appears periodically across the page. When I send a fax from the machine, an error "not register." or "not registered." is displayed. White lines, bands or ribbing across the page White spots or hollow print White streaks or bands down the page More
Linux (21) Can I use my Brother printer with a 64 bit Linux distribution? (Linux) Delete a network scanner entry. (Linux) Firewall port requirements of the Scan Key Tool (Linux) How to use Scan-key-tool features. (Scan-to-File, Scan-to-Image or Scan-to E-mail) (Linux) I cannot install the driver when using the Driver Install Tool. (Linux) I get the "Filter "brlpdwrapper[model name]" for printer "[model name]" not available: No such file ordirectory" error on Gentoo (Linux) I want to print using CUPS while keeping SELinux enabled. (Linux) I'm using SuSE 11.2. I cannot print to Brother monochrome machines. (Linux) Large characters are printed incorrectly. (Linux) My machine prints 2-sided when I select 1-sided printing in the driver (Linux) Print command (cupswrapper). (Linux) Print command (LPR) (Linux) Scan using XSane or GIMP (Linux) The downloaded driver's name is different from my machine's name. (Linux) The driver installation finished successfully but I cannot print. (Linux) The driver installation was successful but I cannot print on Redhat, Fedora, or CentOS (Linux) To install the printer driver easily using a tool. (Linux) Uninstall printer drivers (Linux) Uninstall Scan-key-tool. (Linux) Uninstall the scanner driver. (Linux) When I print images, the quality is not good (Linux) More
Mobile (25) A margin appears on the right side of the scanned document when using the Brother iPrint&Scan application on my Android™mobile device. Can I print all PDF formats from my device (Android™) using the Brother iPrint&Scan? Can I print from and scan to iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad? Can I print from or scan to Android™ Smartphone? Can I select paper trays from my device (Android™) using the Brother iPrint&Scan? Can I select paper trays from my device (iPhone, iPod touch and iPad) using the Brother iPrint&Scan? Can I use AirPrint with my Brother machine? I cannot view scanned images that I saved to iCloud from iPhone / iPod touch or iPad using Brother iPrint&Scan. Print a web page from Brother iPrint&Scan when using an iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Print a web page from iPrint&Scan when using an Android™ mobile device. Print data from the Clipboard in Brother iPrint&Scan when using an iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Print PDF files or documents from the Brother iPrint&Scan application when using Windows Phone. Print Photos or Documents from the Brother iPrint&Scan application when using an iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Printing documents from Brother iPrint&Scan when using an Android™ mobile device. Printing from applications other than Brother iPrint&Scan when using an Android™ mobile device. Scan from the Brother iPrint&Scan application using Windows Phone. Scan from the Brother iPrint&Scan application using your iOS supported devices including iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Scanned documents are black when I view them in Brother Image Viewer (Android™) The error message "No Supported Devices Found" appears on the Brother iPrint&Scan screen (mobile device). The scanned documents in my Android™ mobile device are not displayed in the documents list of the Brother Image Viewerapplication. Unable to print or scan when using Brother iPrint&Scan from my Android™ mobile device. Unable to print or scan when using Brother iPrint&Scan from my Windows Phone® mobile device. What is Brother iPrint&Scan? Which connection can I use to print from my device (Android™) using the Brother iPrint&Scan? Which connection can I use to print from my device (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) using the Brother iPrint&Scan? More
Others (2) I heard a beep sound from the UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) when I turned on my Brother machine. The keys on the control panel do not respond.
Paper Feed / Paper Jam (11) Document Jam Envelope creases Jam Duplex Jam Inside Jam MP Tray Jam Rear Jam Tray 1 / Jam Tray 2 Load paper in the paper tray Stop the paper feeding twice through the machine when printing single pages with 2-sided(duplex) switched to on in the printerdriver. (For Windows Only) The paper comes out of the machine curled or wavy. The printed page is wrinkled when it come out of the machine. More
Print (73) Adjust colour settings by using the custom setting in the printer driver All one colour Can I print all PDF formats from my device (Android™) using the Brother iPrint&Scan? Can I print from and scan to iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad? Can I print from DOS applications? Can I print from or scan to Android™ Smartphone? Can I select paper trays from my device (Android™) using the Brother iPrint&Scan? Can I select paper trays from my device (iPhone, iPod touch and iPad) using the Brother iPrint&Scan? Cannot print after a Windows 10 update (June 2020) Carry out calibration to improve the colour density Change the printer driver settings (Windows / macOS) Colour misregistration Coloured lines across the page Coloured spots at 94 mm (3.7 in.) intervals or at 30 mm (1.2 in.) intervals Coloured streaks or bands down the page Completely blank or some colours are missing. Envelope creases How can I create or view an XML Paper Specification document? How can I print from a Linux system? I am sharing my Brother machine from my Windows XP computer and other Windows users are not able to print. I cannot print from my computer via USB. I cannot print over a network using the XML Paper Specification Printer Driver. I cannot print using my Brother machine on a wired network. (Windows / macOS) I get an error "Print Queue is stopped" using Mac OSX 10.2-10.4 I installed drivers from the bundled CD-ROM but I cannot print. (Mac OS X 10.5 or greater) I installed the Full Driver & Software Package, but some applications were not installed. (For Windows 10) I just setup my Brother machine and my printed pages are light or faded on one side. I print mainly black and white documents. How can I stop the life of my colour toner cartridges from decreasing when I print? I'm using the BR-Script3 driver, and my Brother machine does not print my document with the Booklet option Iselected in Adobe® Acrobat® / Adobe® Reader®. I'm printing from Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 but it is not using the settings I select in the Universal Printer Driver. (ForWindows XP) Im using Mac OS X 10.2-10.4 and the Brother machine does not appear in the Print Center or Setup Utility. My printed documents are incomplete or a blue screen appears when printing or using PC-FAX after a Windows 10 update (March 2021) Offset image Poor fixing Possible solutions for print quality issues Print a web page from Brother iPrint&Scan when using an iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Print a web page from iPrint&Scan when using an Android™ mobile device. Print both sides of paper manually (For Macintosh) Print both sides of paper or a booklet automatically Print data from the Clipboard in Brother iPrint&Scan when using an iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Print PDF files or documents from the Brother iPrint&Scan application when using Windows Phone. Print Photos or Documents from the Brother iPrint&Scan application when using an iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Printing documents from Brother iPrint&Scan when using an Android™ mobile device. Printing from applications other than Brother iPrint&Scan when using an Android™ mobile device. Some characters are missing when printing PDF files from Adobe® Acrobat® /Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® / Adobe® Reader®. What can I do to correct this? Stop the paper feeding twice through the machine when printing single pages with 2-sided(duplex) switched to on in the printerdriver. (For Windows Only) The Brother machine does not appear in the "Print & Fax" or "Print & Scan" Utility. (Mac OS X 10.5 or greater) The error message "Invalid format for short nick name" appears when printing a document. (Mac OS X 10.5 or greater) The error message "No Supported Devices Found" appears on the Brother iPrint&Scan screen (mobile device). The paper comes out of the machine curled or wavy. The printed page is wrinkled when it come out of the machine. The printer status is Offline or Paused. The printout is out of alignment or the size of the printed document is reduced when printing the document from Microsoft Word2010. The Universal Printer Driver searches for the Brother devices on a single network even though my computer connects to multiplenetworks. (For Windows users) Thin lines do not print. Toner scatter or toner stain Turn the Toner Save mode on or off Unable to print or scan when using Brother iPrint&Scan from my Android™ mobile device. Unable to print or scan when using Brother iPrint&Scan from my Windows Phone® mobile device. Uneven density appears periodically across the page. Use the Universal Printer Driver for BR-Script. (PostScript language emulation) When I print a document as a booklet from Microsoft Office 2003 or later, a drawing object does not position correctly on theprinted page. (For Windows BR-Script Printer Drivers users) When I print from Microsoft Excel 2002/2003, Word 2002/2003 or PowerPoint 2002/2003, semitransparent graphics are printedincorrectly. When I print from Outlook/ Outlook Express or Internet Explorer, the page does not print as expected. For example, theright or left hand portion of the page is blank or it prints on a separate piece of paper. When I print from PowerPoint using the 2 in 1 feature, some of the borders around the document are not printed or lines areprinted that shouldn't be there. When I print using the XML Paper Specification Printer Driver, the print out result is not what I expected, it is very differentfrom the original draft. When I try to print thin colour borders in Microsoft Excel, the borders are printed in black. When printing with the BR-Script Printer Driver via Mac OSX 10.5, the Black colour is incorrect and has too much Red. Which connection can I use to print from my device (Android™) using the Brother iPrint&Scan? Which connection can I use to print from my device (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) using the Brother iPrint&Scan? White lines, bands or ribbing across the page White spots or hollow print White streaks or bands down the page More
Scan (75) "ControlCenter needs to be updated." - macOS 10.15 Catalina A margin appears on the right side of the scanned document when using the Brother iPrint&Scan application on my Android™mobile device. Can I print from and scan to iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad? Can I print from or scan to Android™ Smartphone? Can I view or edit documents on my Android™ mobile device that were scanned from my Brother machine? Change the scan settings of ControlCenter2 and your machine’s SCAN key (Mac) Change the scan settings of ControlCenter4 and your machine's SCAN key (Windows) How do I scan a document from the Windows Vista™ Photo Gallery? How do I scan an image and insert it into an Office 2007 application using Windows Vista/Windows 7 How do I start the Scanner and Camera Wizard in Windows Vista/ Windows 7? I am sharing my Brother machine. I can print but cannot scan. I am trying to use a Brother driver from the CD supplied with the machine or downloaded from the Internet, and I cannot scan fromWindows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Server 2012. I am using Scan to Email (E-mail server) function to send a scanned document directly to an E-mail address. Since our providerrequires authentication for the SMTP server, I am not able to use this function anymore. I am using Windows XP and I cannot scan with the USB cable. I can print but cannot scan via network. (For Macintosh) I can print but cannot scan via network. (For Windows) I can print but cannot scan via network. (For Windows) I cannot find the destination computer on the network when I try to scan a document using the machine's Scan key or controlpanel. I cannot scan via network getting the error "CC031" or "MTW012". (Mac OS X) I cannot scan via USB. (Mac OS X) I cannot start ControlCenter4. I installed the Full Driver & Software Package, but some applications were not installed. (For Windows 10) I keep getting the error message "Authenticat Err (Authentication error)". I'm using Mac OS X 10.5. The network scanning feature does not work when pressing the scan key on the control panel of myBrother machine. I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.x. The network scanning feature does not work when pressing the scan key on the control panel of myBrother machine. I'm unable to scan from Corel® Paint Shop Pro® X using the WIA driver, using Windows XP Professional x64 Edition/Windows Vista™ 64-bit edition. I'm using Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. I cannot scan after installing the scanner driver. I'm using Macintosh. What is the PreScan option used for? Locate files scanned with ControlCenter2 (For Macintosh) On my Brother machine I selected "Scan to Network" using the control panel or SCAN key, but I cannot find my Macintosh. Open "Scanners and Cameras" and Properties. Scan a document and e-mail it as an attachment (For Macintosh) Scan a document and e-mail it as an attachment (For Macintosh) (video instructions available) Scan a document and e-mail it as an attachment using the SCAN key on my Brother machine Scan a document and e-mail it as an attachment. (For Windows) Scan a document and e-mail it as an attachment. (For Windows) (video instructions available) Scan a document and open the scanned image with a graphics application (For Macintosh) Scan a document and open the scanned image with a graphics application (For Windows) Scan a document and open the scanned image with a graphics application using the SCAN key on my Brother machine Scan a document and save the scanned image to a folder on a local or network hard disk (For Macintosh) Scan a document and save the scanned image to a folder on a local or network hard disk (For Windows) Scan a document and save the scanned image to a folder on a local or network hard disk using the SCAN key on my Brother machine Scan a document and save the scanned image to a folder on a local or network hard disk using the SCAN key on my Brother machine(video instructions available) Scan a document from a Windows Vista application Scan a document from a Windows XP application Scan a document in Mac OS X 10.6. Scan a document in Mac OS X 10.7. Scan a document in OS X 10.8 / macOS 10.12 - 10.15. Scan a document in Windows 8 and Windows 10. Scan a document into PaperPort™ using the TWAIN driver Scan a document using "Scanner and Camera Wizard" in Windows XP Scan a text document and convert it into a text file (For Windows) Scan an image and insert it in a Windows XP application Scan and save a document in PDF format for Macintosh (Scan to File) Scan and save a document in PDF format for Windows (Scan to File) Scan and save a document in PDF format using the SCAN key on my Brother machine (Scan to File) Scan from the Brother iPrint&Scan application using Windows Phone. Scan from the Brother iPrint&Scan application using your iOS supported devices including iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Scan multiple pages into one file instead of each scan being saved as a separate file. Scanned documents are black when I view them in Brother Image Viewer (Android™) The error message "No Supported Devices Found" appears on the Brother iPrint&Scan screen (mobile device). The network scanning feature does not work when pressing the scan key on my Brother machine control panel. (For Windows) The scanned data is attached to an E-mail application which I do not use regularly, or the error message indicating no defaultE-mail application is registered on my computer (CC4-121-[error code]) when trying to scan a document directly into my E-mailapplication using ControlCenter4 or the SCAN key on my Brother machine. The scanned image is blurred, garbled, or distorted when using ControlCenter2 or the SCAN key on my Brother machine. (For Mac OS X10.5) Unable to print or scan when using Brother iPrint&Scan from my Android™ mobile device. Unable to print or scan when using Brother iPrint&Scan from my Windows Phone® mobile device. Use the Device Selector to configure your Brother machine’s scanner function (Mac) When I attempt to launch ControlCenter4, the application will not open or only opens a partial or blank window with no scanoptions. When I scan a document using ControlCenter, the scanned file size is too big. When I try to scan the document, the scanner application crashes. (OS X 10.11) When I try to scan to OCR I get the message "This feature is not available because there is no OCR Softwareinstalled" When I try to scan using ControlCenter4 or ControlCenter3 for Windows, I receive the error message "Error CC3-202","Error CC4-202", "Error CC3-205" or "Error CC4-205". Which connection can I use to print from my device (Android™) using the Brother iPrint&Scan? Which connection can I use to print from my device (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) using the Brother iPrint&Scan? Why is legal scanning not an option on my Windows XP computer when using the WIA driver? More
