Brother FAX-1800C User's Guide
Printer & PC-FAX Manual
FAX-1800C
®
Table of Contents
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Printer Driver Settings (Windows
Using the Brother FAX-1800C Printer Driver........................... 1-1
Paper Tab.................................................................................... 1-1
Paper Size ............................................................................ 1-2
Orientation........................................................................... 1-2
Copy/Page Order ................................................................. 1-2
Copies ............................................................................. 1-2
Collate ............................................................................. 1-2
Reverse Order ................................................................. 1-2
Paper Thickness................................................................... 1-3
Scaling ................................................................................. 1-3
Paper Source........................................................................ 1-3
Quality/Color Tab ...................................................................... 1-4
Quality ................................................................................. 1-4
Media................................................................................... 1-5
Document ............................................................................ 1-5
Color Matching.................................................................... 1-6
Custom Setting .................................................................... 1-6
Halftone Pattern .............................................................. 1-6
Color Enhance................................................................. 1-7
Color/Mono ......................................................................... 1-8
Bi-Directional Printing ........................................................ 1-8
Fast Draft Mode................................................................... 1-8
Advanced Tab ............................................................................ 1-8
Watermark ........................................................................... 1-8
Print Watermark.............................................................. 1-9
In Background................................................................. 1-9
Watermark Style.................................................................. 1-9
Watermark Text .............................................................. 1-9
Watermark Bitmap.......................................................... 1-9
Position ........................................................................... 1-9
Device Options .................................................................. 1-10
Print Date & Time ............................................................. 1-10
Support ..................................................................................... 1-11
Web Update .................................................................. 1-11
Brother Solutions Center............................................... 1-11
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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 .................................................... 2-3
The Ink Key................................................................................ 2-3
Stop/Exit Key ...................................................................... 2-3
Checking the Print Quality ......................................................... 2-3
Print Area ................................................................................... 2-4
Using PC-FAX (Windows
PC-FAX Sending........................................................................ 3-1
Setting Up the User Information ......................................... 3-1
Setting Up Sending.............................................................. 3-2
Outside Line Access ............................................................ 3-2
Include Header..................................................................... 3-2
Address Book File ............................................................... 3-2
User Interface ...................................................................... 3-3
Simple Style .................................................................... 3-3
Facsimile Style................................................................ 3-3
Setting Up Speed Dial ................................................................ 3-4
The Address Book ............................................................... 3-5
Setting Up a Member in the Address Book......................... 3-6
Setting Up a Group for Broadcasting .................................. 3-7
Editing Member Information............................................... 3-7
Deleting a Member or Group .............................................. 3-8
Exporting the Address Book ............................................... 3-8
Importing to the Address Book ........................................... 3-9
Setting Up a Cover Page.................................................... 3-10
To .................................................................................. 3-11
From.............................................................................. 3-11
Comment....................................................................... 3-11
Select Cover Page Form................................................ 3-11
Import BMP File ........................................................... 3-11
Count Cover Page ......................................................... 3-11
Sending a File as a PC-FAX Using the Facsimile Style ... 3-12
Redial ............................................................................ 3-13
Sending a File as a PC-FAX Using the Simple Style........ 3-13
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Using the Brother Machine with a New Power Macintosh
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G3, G4 or iMac™/iBook™............................................................. 4-1
Set Up Your USB-Equipped Apple
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Macintosh
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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
Sending a Fax from Your Macintosh
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Application ................... 4-3
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Macintosh
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.... 4-1
Setting Up Your Address Book........................................... 4-5
Adding a New Member................................................... 4-5
Adding a New Group ...................................................... 4-6
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Computer Requirements
Minimum System Requirements
Computer Platform
& Operating System Version
98, 98SE
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Systems
Apple
TM
/iBookTM/
Systems
Me
2000 Professional
XP
Mac OS 8.5 – 9.2.1
(Printing and PC-FAX)
Mac OS X 10.0, 10.1
(Printing Only)
Windows
Operating
iMac
G3/G4 Operating
* You may need more hard disk space depending on what you want to do.
Printer Driver and PC-FAX Driver can be downloaded from http://solutions. brother. com
Note: All registered trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective companies.
Processor
Minimum Speed
Pentium 75MHz
Pentium 150MHz
Pentium 133MHz
Pentium 233MHz
All base models
meet minimun
requirements
Minimum
RAM
24MB
32MB
64MB
32MB
128MB
Recommended
RAM
32MB
64MB
128MB
64MB
160MB
Available Hard
Disk Space*
30MB
30MB
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Printer Driver Settings
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(Windows
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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
Note
PC may vary depending on your Windows Operating System.
For more information, please see the on-line Help in the printer driver.
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98. The screens on your
Paper Tab
The paper tab screen allows you to set up the Paper Size, Paper Source, Paper
Thickness, Orientation, Scaling, and Copy/Page Order.
To access the Brother printer driver, select Print from the File menu. In the Print
dialog box, select
Properties button. The Brother FAX1800C on BRUSB: Properties dialog box will
appear:
Brother FAX1800C from the Name drop down list. Click the
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Select the Apply button to apply your selected settings.
To return to the default settings, click the
Apply button.
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Select the Paper Size and Orientation.
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Select number of Copies and Page Order.
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Select Paper Thickness, Scaling and Paper Source.
PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (WINDOWS® ONLY)
Default button, and then click the
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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"
you want to use, click the icon.
5" to 8.5" × 14". To select the paper size
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 printed and then repeated for the number of copies you selected. If the collate
check box is not selected, then each page will be printed for all the copies
selected before the next page in the document is printed.
Reverse Order
Reverse Order prints the pages of your document in the opposite order.
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PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (WINDOWS® ONLY)
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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 from 50% to 200%.
From the pull-down box, select from the preset settings or type a percentage
setting. You can also select 2 in 1 printing for printing two pages on one sheet
of paper.
For Windows
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2000 Professional, you can also select 4 in 1 printing.
Paper Source
From the Paper Source pull-down, choose the source of the media you are using.
Feeder
Manual Feed
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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.
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Select the
To return to the default settings, click the
Apply button.
Apply button to apply your selected settings.
Default button, and then click the
Quality
The quality selection allows you to choose the print resolution you want for your
document. Print quality and speed are related. The higher the quality the longer
it will take to print the document. The quality selections available will vary
depending on the media selection.
Draft: The fastest print mode and the lowest ink consumption. Use this mode to
print large volume documents or a document for proofing.
Normal: Recommended for ordinary printouts.
Fine: Better print quality than normal mode and faster print speed than Super
Fine.
Super Fine: Use this mode to print precise images such as photographs. Since
the print data is much larger than normal mode, the processing time, data
transfer time and print time will be longer.
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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. Black ink is used when you select Glossy Paper (4 color). If the
glossy paper you are using repels the black ink, select Glossy Paper (3 color),
which simulates black ink by combining the other three ink colors.
Document
The printer driver will select the most suitable color matching method,
depending on your document type. Generally, text and business graphics are
printed vividly and photographic images are printed softly.
Auto: The printer driver automatically selects the document type.
Photo: Use this mode for photographic images.
■ Graphics: This mode is for documents that contain text or business graphics
(charts or clip art).
■ Custom: Select this mode if you want to manually select the color matching
method and halftone method.
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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 Color
Enhance/True2Life.
Halftone Pattern
The Brother machine can use several methods to arrange where to place dots to
express halftones. There are some predefined patterns for placement of dots and
you can select which one is used for your document. Select the appropriate
method.
■ Photo
This method creates smooth halftones suitable for photographic images. It takes
more time to process data, but it expresses more levels of halftones and creates
more natural images.
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PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (WINDOWS® ONLY)
■ 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
Adjusts the color in the image for better print quality. Print time will be longer
with True2Life set to ON.
■ Sharpness
This setting enhances the detail of an image. This is similar to adjusting the fine
focus of a camera. If the focus is off a little you will not be able to clearly see
the fine details of an image.
■ Color Density
This adjusts the total amount of color in the image. You can increase or decrease
the amount of color in an image to improve a picture that may appear washed
out or weak.
■ White Balance
This adjusts the hue of the white sections of an image. Lighting, camera settings
and other influences will effect the appearance of white. The white parts of a
picture may appear to be slightly pink, yellow or some other color. By using
this adjustment you can correct this effect and bring the white sections back to
pure white.
■ Brightness
Change the brightness of the whole image. Moving the scroll bar to the left
makes your image darker and moving the scroll bar to the right makes your
image lighter.
■ Contrast
Change the contrast of an image. Darker sections will be darker and lighter
sections will be lighter as you increase the contrast. Increase the contrast when
you want an image to be clearer. Decrease the contrast when you want an image
to be more subdued.
■ Red
Increase the intensity of the Red color by adding red to the whole image.
■ Green
Increase the intensity of the Green color by adding green to the whole image.
■ Blue
Increase the intensity of the Blue color by adding blue to the whole image.
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