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.
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Posted by Joe on 2-21-2008
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Step 1: Select the category of your product. Inkjet Printer / Fax / MFC / DCP; Monochrome Laser Printer; Color Printer (Laser / LED) Monochrome Laser Fax / MFC / DCP. Most Brother models offer support for macOS Catalina (macOS v10.15.x). The charts below indicate that models offer support for macOS v10.15.x including drivers and utilities available for download. If you are using a recently released operating system on your computer, download and install the latest driver from the Downloads section.
Control Center Update For Mac
Update - A few weeks later I started having trouble accessing the scanning capabilities from the Mac. I spoke with Brother Support and they took me thru the following re-installation steps, which solved the problem.
- 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.
Brother Control Center 3 Download Mac
Brother has recommended that customers use iPrint&Scan application or Image Capture. But you might also want to use VueScan Scanner Software. But you might also want to use VueScan Scanner Software. VueScan works on over 6000 scanners, even scanners that are no longer supported by their scanner vendor, so you can use VueScan with any scanner. Hold down the Control-key and click the installer package file. Choose Open again. The installation will begin. For more information, refer to: 'xxxxxxx.xxx (file name) can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer on Macintosh OSX 10.8 or 10.9' when installing Brother software' 4. On the welcome screen click CONTINUE. Most browsers will download the file into your default 'Downloads' folder and the package will automatically run. If you are prompted to Save the file, then browse to a location that will be easy to find and save the package. Once the download is complete, the installation should start automatically. Follow the onscreen instructions.
Brother Control Center App
Posted by Joe on 3-12-2008