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9 scanning, Scanning from a macintosh, Accessing the scanner – Brother MFC-8460N User Manual

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Scanning from a Macintosh

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The Brother machine software includes a TWAIN Scanner driver for Macintosh

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. You can use this

Macintosh

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TWAIN Scanner driver with any applications that support TWAIN specifications.

Note

If you want to scan from a machine on a network, choose the networked machine in the DeviceSelector
application located in Macintosh HD/Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities or from the Model pull-down list in
the main screen of ControlCenter2.
For more information, see Configuring network scanning on page 173 or Using ControlCenter2 on page
156 (Network scanning supporte
d in Mac OS

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X 10.2.4 or greater).

Accessing the scanner

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Run your Macintosh

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TWAIN-compliant application. The first time you use the Brother TWAIN driver, set it

as the default driver by choosing Choose Source (or another menu name for choosing the default driver
depending on the application you are using). For each document you scan after this, choose Acquire Image
or Scan. The scanner setup dialog box appears.

Note

The method of choosing the default driver or choosing to scan may vary depending on the application you
are using.

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