The network printer component of the MFC-7820N is easy in leopard– it’s detected by the mDNS (bonjour), and the drivers are preinstalled. Everything there should be smooth sailing.
However, we wanted this printer partly because it’s a network scanner, as well. Getting the network scanner component working under Leopard turned out to have a slight trick.
First, install the drivers:
- Go to the brother download site
- choose Drivers -> Mac OS/X 10.5 -> English then hit submit
- Install this driver, it’s the scanner TWAIN driver. It’s universal too
- This driver will make you reboot. Whee.
- Go back to the download site, and this time, do Utilities -> Mac OS/X 10.5 -> English
- Install the provided “Remote Setup Software”
Now, here’s the fun trick. Open your hard drive, and go to the folder /Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/DeviceSelector. In this dir is a program called DeviceSelector . Run it.
Tell the DeviceSelector (and the scanner driver) to “Specify your machine by address”, and enter the IP address of your printer. (Mine was preset to specify by ‘name’, which is using mDNS).
From there, I could now scan through the control center applet or in a standard Twain app, like Image Capture in the /Applications folder.
smith
8/17/2009 | 5:50 pm1
Hooray!!! I can scan! So thankful for your help.
Jay
4/15/2009 | 7:09 am2
I downloaded the latest software, and I was able to find and use the colorcenter. Scanning was possible, however the fax and printing function do not work. Any idea of what I am doing wrong? Thanks.
MOMEMOR
3/27/2009 | 7:56 am3
Thank you so much for this tip. It has solved a problem I had for months. Brother customer service could not give me a straight answer about it.
Now the scanner gets back to normal.
Thanks again!
JC
Vlad
2/25/2009 | 7:25 am4
I had no luck with this method. Any further ideas?
Martin
2/9/2009 | 11:30 am5
perhaps I’d better add: MFC-8870DW used wireless
Martin
2/9/2009 | 11:25 am6
brother twain works perfect with Word, but not with Image Capture (Digitale Bilder). Followed everything described here (Device Selector to IP); it does not help.
Rachel
2/7/2009 | 8:17 pm7
Thank you so much! I haven’t been able to figure this out and gave up months ago. Now I don’t have to buy another scanner, as I thought I’d have to do.
JAM
2/6/2009 | 5:17 pm8
Followed the steps per your instructions, works just like it did in 10.4. Thanks for saving me a couple hundred bucks on a new MFP. BTW, the 10.5 upgrade did not cause a problem, it was when I was trying to install “Control Center” on my new MacBook Pro.
smg
10/29/2008 | 10:42 pm9
Hi,
I know this is an old post, but hopefully you don’t mind a new comment. I followed your directions, but there is no DeviceSelector in the Utilities folder. I actually ran the install twice with no luck. Any ideas?
MR Ram
10/13/2008 | 4:09 pm10
I have similar scanning problems on 10.5.2 with a brother MFC-465.
Scanning via LAN works o.k. through Brother’s Control Center.
However the TWAIN plug-In will only be recognized by certain applications and will be ignorde by others. Photoshop CS2 can open the TWAIN interface, as well as iCalamus. Ragtime 6 finds the TWAIN module but only produces error messages, Graphic Converter and Photoscore cannot find the TWAIN driver.
This is regardless of whether I choose specify by IP-adress or by mDNS in the Device chooser.
what a pain! any ideas for relief?
How do I find the IP address???
8/14/2008 | 9:12 pm11
Please help!
Anonymous
7/31/2008 | 9:30 pm12
Worked for me on my 5440-CN!
The Remote Connect and Quick Dial did not show up until I selected the USB printer, just like you said.
MaLöhr
7/19/2008 | 2:12 pm13
Excellent! Solved my problem at an instant
Andrei Bernovski
7/1/2008 | 8:12 am14
Thanks! It helped a lot!
jimy
6/28/2008 | 11:09 pm15
first i had to download all the Brother Mac OSX printer software and installed it from website plus i installed the Brother Mac OSX Disc came with printer on the DVD drive. Need to Restart computer and i turned off and on the printer. Next, went to main Library (not user Library) scrolled to printer folder, to Brother folder to Utilities folder. Clicked on Control Center App adjusted settings to my preferences. Clicked Device Selector App for USB connection Clicked Remote Setup App for my Quick Dial Fax settings. Have not tried using Server App.
Dan
6/24/2008 | 8:30 am16
actually, i found the control center app but it doesn’t appear to work. I starts up automatically when I restart the machine (there is a splash screen) but that’s it.
Second - i tried your trick but it doesn’t work for me.
Dan
6/24/2008 | 7:18 am17
Hi there,
Just wondering if you could elaborate on what you meant by “control center applet”
…”From there, I could now scan through the control center applet”
I don’t seem to have this applet and haven’t been able to find it on the net.
Cheers,
D
Len
3/27/2008 | 1:25 pm18
Perfect.
You saved my sanity.
brother mfc7820n drivers
6/21/2008 | 1:43 am19
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