Brother International MFC 8890DW Users Manual - English - Page 143

Scanning difficulties, Software difficulties, Printing difficulties continued, Job Cancel - printer troubleshooting

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Troubleshooting and routine maintenance Printing difficulties (continued) Difficulties Suggestions The headers or footers appear There is an unprintable area on the top and bottom of the page. Adjust the top and when the document displays on the bottom margins in your document to allow for this. screen but they do not show up when it is printed. C The machine does not print on both Check the paper size setting in the printer driver. You need to choose A4, Letter, sides of the paper even though the Legal or Folio [16 to 28 lb (60 to 105 g/m2)]. printer driver setting is Duplex. The machine is not printing or has stopped printing and the machine's status LED is yellow. Press Job Cancel. As the machine cancels the job and clears it from the memory it may produce an incomplete printout. Scanning difficulties C Difficulties TWAIN errors appear while scanning. OCR does not work. Network scanning does not work. Suggestions Make sure that the Brother TWAIN driver is chosen as the primary source. In PaperPort™ 11SE, click File, Scan or Get Photo and choose the Brother TWAIN driver. Try increasing the scanning resolution. See Network difficulties on page 128. Software difficulties C Difficulties Cannot install software or print. Cannot perform '2 in 1' or '4 in 1' printing. The machine does not print from Adobe® Illustrator®. Suggestions Run the Repair MFL-Pro Suite program on the CD-ROM. This program will repair and reinstall the software. Check that the paper size setting in the application and in the printer driver are the same. Try to reduce the print resolution. (See Advanced tab in the Software User's Guide on the CD-ROM.) 127

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Troubleshooting and routine maintenance
127
C
Scanning difficulties
C
Software difficulties
C
The headers or footers appear
when the document displays on the
screen but they do not show up
when it is printed.
There is an unprintable area on the top and bottom of the page. Adjust the top and
bottom margins in your document to allow for this.
The machine does not print on both
sides of the paper even though the
printer driver setting is Duplex.
Check the paper size setting in the printer driver. You need to choose A4, Letter,
Legal or Folio [16 to 28 lb (60 to 105 g/m
2
)].
The machine is not printing or has
stopped printing and the machine’s
status LED is yellow.
Press
Job Cancel
.
As the machine cancels the job and clears it from the memory it may produce an
incomplete printout.
Difficulties
Suggestions
TWAIN errors appear while
scanning.
Make sure that the Brother TWAIN driver is chosen as the primary source. In
PaperPort™ 11SE, click
File
,
Scan or Get Photo
and choose the
Brother TWAIN driver
.
OCR does not work.
Try increasing the scanning resolution.
Network scanning does not work.
See
Network difficulties
on page 128.
Difficulties
Suggestions
Cannot install software or print.
Run the
Repair MFL-Pro Suite
program on the CD-ROM. This program will repair
and reinstall the software.
Cannot perform ‘2 in 1’ or ‘4 in 1’
printing.
Check that the paper size setting in the application and in the printer driver are the
same.
The machine does not print from
Adobe
®
Illustrator
®
.
Try to reduce the print resolution. (See
Advanced tab
in the
Software User’s Guide
on the CD-ROM.)
Printing difficulties (continued)
Difficulties
Suggestions