Chapter 1
2
Accessing the 
Advanced User’s 
Guide, Software User’s 
Guide and Network 
User’s Guide
1
This Basic User's Guide does not contain all 
the information about the machine such as 
how to use the advanced features for Fax, 
Copy, Printer, Scanner, PC-Fax and 
Network. When you are ready to learn 
detailed information about these operations, 
read the Advanced User's Guide, 
Software User’s Guide and 
Network User’s Guide that are on the 
Installer CD-ROM.
Viewing Documentation 1
Viewing Documentation (Windows
®
) 1
To view the documentation, from the Start 
menu, select Brother, MFC-XXXX (where 
XXXX is your model name) from the 
programs group, and then choose 
User’s Guides.
If you have not installed the software, you can 
find the documentation on the Installer 
CD-ROM by following the instructions below:
a Turn on your computer. Insert the 
Installer CD-ROM into your CD-ROM 
drive.
If the Brother screen does not appear 
automatically, go to My Computer 
(Computer), double-click the CD-ROM 
icon, and then double-click start.exe.
 
b If the model name screen appears, click 
your model name.
c If the language screen appears, click 
your language. The CD-ROM Top Menu 
will appear.
 
d Click Documentation.
e Click PDF documents. If the country 
screen appears, choose your country. 
After the list of User’s Guides appears, 
choose the Guide you want to read.
Viewing Documentation (Macintosh) 1
a Turn on your Macintosh. Insert the 
Installer CD-ROM into your CD-ROM 
drive. The following window will appear.
 
b Double-click the Documentation icon.
c If the model name screen appears, 
choose your model name and click 
Next.
d If the language screen appears, double-
click your language folder.