Operational And Software Difficulties - Brother ADS-2400N User Manual

Troubleshooting

Operational and Software Difficulties

IMPORTANT
For technical help, you must contact Brother customer support.
If you think there is a problem with your machine, check the table below and follow the troubleshooting tips.
You can resolve most problems yourself. If you need additional help, the Brother Solutions Center offers the
latest FAQs and troubleshooting tips, visit support.brother.com
Using non-Brother supplies may affect the scan quality, hardware performance, and machine reliability.
Scanning Difficulties
Difficulty Cause
TWAIN or WIA errors
The TWAIN or WIA driver has not been
appear when starting selected as the primary source in your
®
to scan. (Windows ) scanning application.
TWAIN errors appear The TWAIN driver has not been
when starting to scan. selected as the primary source in your
(Macintosh) scanning application.
OCR does not work. The scanner resolution is too low.
Vertical lines are seen Paper dust has accumulated on the
in the scanned image. surface of the glass strips.
The scanned image is 
missing.
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The Paper Guides are not adjusted
to fit the width of the document.
The Auto Deskew feature was set to
On when the document was
scanned.
The settings are not suitable for your
document. For example, a Letter/A4
size document was fed when
Executive/A5 was selected as
document size.
Suggestions
Make sure the Brother TWAIN or WIA driver is
selected as the primary source in your scanning
application. For example, in Nuance™
PaperPort™ 14SE, click Scan Settings, and then
Select to select the Brother TWAIN/WIA driver.
Make sure the Brother TWAIN driver is selected as
the primary source in your application.
You can also scan documents using the
ICA Scanner Driver.
Increase the scanner resolution.
Clean the glass strips inside the machine.
See Clean the Scanner and Rollers on page 235.
 Adjust the Paper Guides to fit the width of the
document. When Scan Size is set to Auto and
you are scanning a document that contains
multiple page sizes, insert narrow pages straight
and as close to the centre of the machine as
possible. If the document does not stay straight
while feeding, use Continuous Scanning.
 Set Auto Deskew to Off.
 Make sure the document size settings are
suitable for your document.
Configure the margin settings and adjust the
scanning position. For more information, see
Adjust the Scanning Position on page 222.
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