Apple hardware, software, and services work together to deliver a seamless experience that just works. You can start a project on Mac and finish it on iPad, use your screens side by side to extend your workspace, and even draw with Apple Pencil on your iPad or use your iPhone to make live updates on your Mac. The Mac OS X operating system is based on UNIX (if you’ve heard of LINUX this is his big brother). Because of this it can run many applications originally written for UNIX. The X Windows System is the graphical user interface (UI) used by UNIX for their desktop interface and GUI programs. Free brother utilities download software at UpdateStar - The Multi-Function Link Pro (MFL Pro) Suite and the MFC Software Suite are software programs designed to give the greatest flexibility, functionality and enjoyment from your Brother machine.These programs are included on the product CD-ROM.
I have a MFC-8660DN multi-function printer. There's a piece of software called the Brother Control Center that lets you initiate scans from your desktop and route the scan to a specific application. To get it..
- Visit this Brother site.
- Choose 'USA'
- Choose your model number (MFC-8660DN)
- Choose 'United States'
- Choose 'Drivers' then 'Mac OS X (10.5)' then 'English'
- Then choose the 'Scanner Driver' and download it, then install.
- You'll have to restart your computer and a dialogue will come up. You can have the printer associated by name or IP address. I chose IP address. Then I added a name of my computer so that you can use the printer interface to send things to a particular computer.
Posted by Joe on 2-21-2008
Update - A few weeks later I started having trouble accessing the scanning capabilities from the Mac. https://renewnature943.weebly.com/blog/latest-mac-apps-2016. I spoke with Brother Support and they took me thru the following re-installation steps, which solved the problem.
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- Delete the 'Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/Library/Preferences/Brother' folder.
- Delete the 'Library/Image Capture/TWAIN Data Sources/Brother TWAIN.ds' file.
- Delete the 'Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/ControlCenter' and 'Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/DeviceSelector' folders.
- Restart computer.
- Empty your trash.
- Re-install the Control Center following the steps above.
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