how to scan Brother DCP-T220. DCP-T226. DCP-T420W. DCP-T425W. DCP-T426W. DCP-T428W - User's Guide - Brother Solutions Center
How to scan Brother DCP-T220. DCP-T226. DCP-T420W. DCP-T425W. DCP-T426W. DCP-T428W - User's Guide - Brother Solutions Center
Brother iPrint&Scan is only available for macOS v10.10 or later.
Brother iPrint&Scan Light is a utility application developed by Brother Industries Ltd. The software provides printing and scanning services for Brother machines. With this app, users can print documents and photos easily.
Streamlined Printing and Scanning
Brother iPrint&Scan Light allows easy access to Brother machines. Users can print, scan and manage other workflows coming from the printing machine. They must remember, however, that supported functions depend on the capabilities and specifications of the printer.
Step 1: Download Printer Driver & Scanner Driver for USB
This download only includes the printer and scanner (WIA and/or TWAIN) drivers, optimized for USB interface.
Step 2: Download and install Brother iPrint&Scan
Click Go > Application and double click the iPrint&Scan icon.
If your Brother machine is not selected, click the Select your Machine and follow the on-screen instructions to select your Brother machine.
Scan a document using Brother iPrint&Scan.
You can scan a document using Brother iPrint&Scan and save the data in a specified file format and open from specified applications.
Load the document.
Click Scan.
Change document size, color setting and resolution as required.
If you select high resolution, the scanned data will be high-quality but the file size will be large and will take a long time to scan.
If you want to change Brightness and Contrast, click All Settings and configure.
Click Scan.
Scanning will start. If you want to scan next page, load the document and click Add Pages.
After scanning all the pages, click Save to PC or Copy to Application.
Configure the File Name, Save folder, File Type, Application Name etc.
If you click Setting, you can configure the details.
Configure the scan button setting.
You can configure the scan settings (destination folder, file type, target application etc.) when using the Scan button on your Brother machine.
Click Machine Scan Settings. If the message is displayed, verify and go to next step.
Click Machine Scan Settings
Select the feature.
Change document size, color setting and resolution.
If you select high resolution, the scanned data will be high-quality but the file size will be large and take a long time to scan.
You can change the file name, destination folder, file type, application etc. for every feature as below.
File
You can change the file name, destination folder, file type.
If you click Settings, you can configure these details.
OCR
Select the file type and your default word processing application.
If you click Settings, you can select the language.
Image
Select the file type and your default graphic application.
Select the file type and your default mailer application.
Click OK and finish the settings.
Configure the scan settings.
If you have concerns of brightness or ghosting, you can correct these as below.
Click Scan or Machine Scan Settings.
If you click Machine Scan Settings, select the feature.
Click All Settings.
All Settings dialog appears, you can configure these corrections.
Document Correction
You can correct ghosting and remove background color etc.
Image Quality Correction
You can correct Brightness and Contrast etc.
Click OK and finish the setting.
Register the scan settings that are commonly used.
You can create scan settings you use most frequently by saving them as your Workflow.
Later you can scan using Workflow instead of manually changing the settings.
Click Create Workflow.
If the message is displayed, verify and click Create.
Create Workflow
Click Scan, select the features that you want to register in Workflow. After that follow the on-screen instructions.
