How do you scan from Brother HL-2280DW in OS X 10.9

How do you scan from Brother HL-2280DW in OS X 10.9.1?

Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Feb 5, 2014 1:48 PM

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May 22, 2014 12:43 PM in response to rountrjf

I had a different problem which is maybe what the first poster was experiencing. When you open the scanner window, it has a "scan" button, but the utility will just say "already scanned" when you hit it.


You have to click and drag a selection area in order to scan to a file (or to a document if you're using Preview). You can click and drag to select the entire page if you want to scan the entire page.


It's a bit odd, but once you figure it out it works.


This doesn't help with the "reported an error" problem.

Jun 9, 2014 6:39 PM in response to rountrjf

I solved this problem (the same problem you are having) on my computer, running 10.9.


I downloaded the current scanner drivers from brother. The "Scanner Driver(TWAIN) 3.9.1 -433", not the printer driver.


it's here:


http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=hl2280dw_u s&os=132


or


http://www.brother-usa.com/support/ModelInfo.aspx?R3ModelID=hl2280dw



At first it didn't affect any changes, but after restarting my computer it now works a charm!

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