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Mobile Print/Scan Guide for
Brother iPrint&Scan
Version A
ENG
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Definitions of notes We use the following icon throughout this user’s guide: Notes tell you how you should respond to a situation that may arise or give Note tips about how the operation works with other features. Trademarks The Brother logo is a registered trademark of Brother Industries, Ltd. Android is a trademark of Google Inc. iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Safari are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Micr
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Table of Contents Section I For Android™ Devices 1 Introduction 2 Overview....................................................................................................................................................2 Hardware requirement...............................................................................................................................3 Supported operating systems....................................................................................................
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6Scanning 37 Scanning documents ...............................................................................................................................37 Scanning documents and saving them in your mobile device’s photo album ...................................37 Sending by E-mail .............................................................................................................................41 Opening scanned images in other applications.......................................
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Section I For Android™ DevicesI Introduction 2 Printing 6 Scanning 15
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Introduction 1 1 1 Overview 1 Brother iPrint&Scan allows you to use features of your Brother machine directly from your Android™ device, without using a computer. Brother iPrint&Scan supports the following functions: Printing Even if your machine is not connected to your computer, you can print photos, PDF, and text files directly from your mobile device. (See Printing uu page 6.) Scanning Photos and documents scanned with your Brother machine can be saved directly to the memory card of y
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Introduction Hardware requirement 1 1 Supported operating systems 1 Brother iPrint&Scan is compatible with devices running Android™ 1.6 or greater. Note Certain features of Brother iPrint&Scan may not be supported by your device. Network settings 1 In order to use Brother iPrint&Scan, your mobile device must connect using Wi-Fi to the network that your Brother machine is connected to. Brother iPrint&Scan supports wireless connections that use infrastructure mode; ad-hoc mode is not supporte
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Introduction When the Brother machine is connected to the wireless access point/router using a network cable: 1 1 2 4 3 1 Mobile device 2 Wireless access point/router 3 Network cable 4 Wireless network machine (your machine) 4
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Introduction Downloading Brother iPrint&Scan from the Android™ Market1 1 You can download and install Brother iPrint&Scan from the Android™ Market. To take advantage of all the features supported by Brother iPrint&Scan, make sure you are using the latest version. To download and install or uninstall Brother iPrint&Scan, please refer to the user’s guide for your mobile device. 5
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Printing 2 2 Printing from the mobile device’s memory card 2 2 Printing photos 2 You can print JPEG images that are saved on your mobile device’s memory card. a Make sure the memory card has been inserted into the mobile device. b Open the Launcher on the mobile device. c Tap the Brother iPrint&Scan icon. Note When the license agreement screen appears, carefully read and accept the terms of the agreement. d Tap Photo Print. e Thumbnail photos are displayed. Tap the desired photo. f Confirm the
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Printing h Make sure your machine is selected. If a different machine is selected or if No Device selected is displayed, make sure your machine is turned on and then tap Printer. 2 i The application will search your network and display a list of available machines. Tap your machine from the list. j Do one of the following: If you want to change other print settings, see Print Settings uu page 14. After changing the settings, go to stepk. If you do not want to change any settings, press
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Printing Printing PDF files 2 You can print PDF files saved on your mobile device’s memory card. Secure PDF files cannot be printed. Note 2 • Some encrypted PDF files cannot be printed. • When printing a PDF file that uses fonts that are not embedded in the file, characters may be replaced with characters of a different font, or may be garbled. • When printing a PDF that includes transparent objects, the transparency setting will be ignored and the file will be printed with that setting off.
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Printing h Make sure your machine is selected. If a different machine is selected or if No Device selected is displayed, make sure your machine is turned on and then tap Printer. 2 i The application will search your network and display a list of available machines. Tap your machine from the list. j Do one of the following: If you want to change other print settings, see Print Settings uu page 14. After changing the settings, go to stepk. If you do not want to change any settings, press
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Printing Printing from other applications 2 Documents can also be printed directly from other applications installed on your mobile device. For example, you can print photos that are attached to E-mail messages from your mobile device. 2 Printing photos 2 You can print JPEG/PNG/GIF/BMP images from other applications. a Use the desired application to select the photo that you want to print, and share the photo with Brother iPrint&Scan. For example, in some applications you can share a photo by
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Printing e The application will search your network and display a list of available machines. Tap your machine from the list. f Do one of the following: If you want to change other print settings, see Print Settings uu page 14. After changing the settings, go 2 to stepg. If you do not want to change any settings, press the Back button and go to stepg. g Tap Print. The machine will start printing. Printing PDF files 2 Note • Some encrypted PDF files cannot be printed. • When printing a PDF fil
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Printing d Make sure your machine is selected. If a different machine is selected or if No Device selected is displayed, make sure your machine is turned on and then tap Printer. 2 e The application will search your network and display a list of available machines. Tap your machine from the list. f Do one of the following: If you want to change other print settings, see Print Settings uu page 14. After changing the settings, go to stepg. If you do not want to change any settings, press
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Printing b Confirm the image on the print preview screen. Note • Tap the screen to hide or show the operation buttons. 2 • You can view different pages by tapping or . cTap . d Make sure your machine is selected. If a different machine is selected or if No Device selected is displayed, make sure your machine is turned on and then tap Printer. e The application will search your network and display a list of available machines. Tap your machine from the list. f Do one of the following: I
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Printing Print Settings 2 You can change the following print settings when you print from a mobile device. Paper Size 2 1 Media Type Copies 23 Layout 2 Color/Mono 23 Duplex 1 Displayed only when printing photos. 2 Displayed only when printing PDF files. 3 Displayed only when printing text files. Note Only settings that can be changed are displayed. a On the Print Settings screen, tap the print option that you want to change. b Choose an option. Repeat steps a and b if you want to
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Scanning 3 3 Scanning documents 3 Scanning directly to your mobile device’s memory card 3 3 Make sure there is enough available space on your mobile device’s memory card. a Make sure the memory card has been inserted into the mobile device. b Load your document on to your machine. c Open the Launcher on the mobile device. d Tap the Brother iPrint&Scan icon. Note When the license agreement screen appears, carefully read and accept the terms of the agreement. e Tap Scan. fTap . g Make sure your
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Scanning i Do one of the following: If you want to change other scan settings, see Scan Settings uu page 20. After changing the settings, go to stepj. If you do not want to change any settings, press the Back button and go to stepj. j Tap Scan. The machine will start to scan the document. The scanned image will then be displayed on the screen. 3 Confirm the scanned image. Note • Tap the screen to hide or show the operation buttons. • If the scanned document has multiple pages, you can v
