Network features, Network printing, Network scanning – Brother MFC-685CW User Manual
Page 10: Network pc-fax (not available for dcp models), Network photocapture center, Management utilities
Introduction
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Network features
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Your Brother machine has the following basic network functions.
Network printing
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The print server provides printing services for Windows
®
2000/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows
Vista™ supporting the TCP/IP protocols and Macintosh
®
supporting TCP/IP (Mac OS
®
X 10.2.4 or greater).
Network scanning
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You can scan documents over the network to your computer (See Network Scanning in the Software User’s
Guide).
Network PC-FAX (Not available for DCP models)
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You can directly send a PC file as a PC-FAX over your network (See Brother PC-FAX Software for Windows
®
and Sending a Fax for Macintosh
®
in the Software User’s Guide for a complete description). Windows
®
users
can also PC-FAX receive (See PC-FAX receiving in the Software User’s Guide).
Network PhotoCapture Center™
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You can view, retrieve and save data from a USB flash memory drive or a media card inserted into the Brother
machine.The software is automatically installed when you select network connection during the software
installation. For Windows
®
, choose the PhotoCapture tab of the ControlCenter3. For more information, see
ControlCenter3 in the Software User’s Guide. For Macintosh
®
, launch any web browser in which FTP is
available and enter FTP://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of your Brother machine).
Management utilities
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BRAdmin Light
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BRAdmin Light is a utility for initial setup of the Brother network connected devices. This utility can search for
Brother product on your network, view the status and configure basic network settings, such as IP address
from a computer running Windows
®
systems and Mac OS
®
X 10.2.4 or greater. For installing BRAdmin Light
on Windows
®
, please see the Quick Setup Guide we provided with the machine. For Macintosh
®
users,
BRAdmin Light will be installed automatically when you install the printer driver. If you have already installed
the printer driver, you don’t have to install it again.
For more information on BRAdmin Light, vi.