Brother CP-1800 User manual

User’s Manual
CopyPoint PC Link

INTRODUCTION
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Introduction
Brother®CopyPoint PC Link software has been developed to expand the
capabilities of your Brother copyboard. You can connect the copyboard to a
personal computer and copy the writing on the board to the PC’s memory.
Best of all, CopyPoint PC Link does all this without taking over your personal
computer. CopyPoint PC Link functions run in the background of your PC
memory, keeping your personal computer free for other tasks.
Technical Support
If you have a working knowledge of Windows®and have read this Owner's
Manual, you can call our Customer Service Center CopyPoint PC Link Support
staff with questions. If you need help, call 1-800-276-7746 from the USA during
normal working hours, Monday through Friday. You can fax inquiries to 1-949-859-
2272 (be sure to provide a full explanation, model number, warranty information,
and details on how to reach you by telephone and fax).
Brother’s Bulletin Board number is 1-888-298-3616.
You may visit the Internet Brother Home Page on the World Wide Web at http://
www.brother.com
For Technical Support within Canada, call 1-800-853-6660, 8:00 AM - 10:00 PM
E.S.T., Monday through Friday. From within Montreal, call 1-514-685-6464 or FAX
1-514-685-3989, Monday through Friday.

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Convenient Scanning of what you write on the writing surface
Brother CopyPoint PC Link allows you to use the copyboard scanning mechanism
to scan in what you write on the writing surface into your PC. You can then store
and print these images at any time.
About This Manual
This manual assumes that you are familiar with the conventions in operating any
Windows®application, including how to use a mouse and Windows®filing
terminology. PLEASE READ THE MANUAL AND SET UP YOUR BROTHER
COPYBOARD BEFORE YOU INSTALL COPYPOINT PC LINK.
We suggest that you carefully read Chapter 1: Setting Up the Copyboard and
Computer to Work Together and Chapter 2: Using ScanSoftTM PaperPort®and
ScanSoftTM TextBridge®before you try to use CopyPoint PC Link.
Brother fax-back system
Brother Technical Support has installed an easy to use fax-back system so you
can get instant answers to common technical questions and product information
on all Brother products. This system is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
You can use this system to send faxes to any fax machine, not just to the one from
which you are calling.
Please call 1-800-521-2846 and follow the voice prompts to receive faxed
instructions on how to use the system and the Index of Fax-BackSM subjects.
Connecting the Brother Copyboard to the computer
Follow the instructions below to hook up the CopyPoint PC Link Cable.
1) Position your Brother Copyboard near your personal computer CPU
(maximum distance of approximately 5-6 feet).
2) Make sure the power to both machines is switched off.
3) Remove the black cover on the PC I/F terminal at the left side of your
Brother Copyboard. Connect the RJ-8 connector of the CopyPoint PC Link
Cable in the jack.
4) Connect the 25-pin female RS-232 connector of the Cable to your PC in
an available male serial communications port. Use the 9-pin adapter if
your PC requires it. (See your PC owner's manual for the correct interface
port for connection.) NOTE: If your PC is an IBM Aptiva, an MWAVE
card is using COM1. You must connect the CopyPoint PC Link Cable
to another COM serial port that is available.

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5) Turn on the computer, then turn on the copyboard.
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FCC COMPLIANCE
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a
Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits
are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interfer-
ence in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can
radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in
accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio
communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not
occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful
interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by
turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct
the interference by one or more of the following measures:
• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
• Increase the separation between the equipment and the receiver.
• Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to
which the receiver is connected.
• Consult with the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

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1. Installation and Setup Before Use
This chapter takes you through each step of the installation process. Read it
carefully to ensure a problem-free installation.
Package Contents
Before you begin the CopyPoint PC Link installation, please check the contents of
your package:
One (1) set Software Installation CD-ROM
CopyPoint PC Link Cable with 25-pin and 9-pin connector
Warranty and Licensing Materials
Brother Manual
Computer Requirements
The following are the minimum computer requirements you need to set up and
operate the Copyboard when it is attached to your PC.
CPU Pentium 75 or Higher
RAM 8MB or greater for Windows®95
(16MB recommended)
16MB or greater for Windows® 98 and
Windows NT®Workstation Version 4.0 (SP3 or later)
(32MB recommended)
24MB or greater for Windows® 98 second Edition
(32MB recommended)
Hard Disk Drive 50MB Full Installation
10MB Twain Driver Installation
Operating System Windows®95/98 or NT®Workstation Version 4.0
Interface RS-232C serial port (9-pin or 25-pin connection)
CD-ROM Drive 2X Speed or Higher

SETTING UP COPYBOARD
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Setting Up the Copyboard
and Computer to Work
Together
BeforeYou Install Software
Your Copyboard and computer can work together only if you install the
Brother Software. Operations run in the background of your PC memory,
keeping your personal computer free for other tasks.
WARNING
It is important that you connect your Copyboard to your computer before
you install the software.
Before you install the software, you must read the
README.WRI file in the root directory of the
CD-ROM for important installation and
troubleshooting information.
Installing Software
IMPORTANT
To install and use the software on Windows NT®Workstation version
4.0, you must be logged on as the Administrator. If you are not the
Administrator, first log in as the Administrator, then change the
registry. Once the registry is changed both the Administrator and
other users can access the software. For more details, read the
README.WRI file in the root directory of the CD-ROM.
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Installing the Brother Software
1
Insert the Brother CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.
2
The Software Installation program appears automatically when you
insert the Brother CD-ROM.
■If the Software Installation program doesn’t appear automatically,
select Start from the desktop, Run and then enter x:\SETUP.EXE.
(“x” is the drive letter for your CD-ROM drive.)
A window will appear listing the options:
3
Install the Software.
Click on Install Scanner Driver to install the driver software. You must
install this driver in order to scan the data on the whiteboard.
Click on Install PaperPort®Software to install the PaperPort®software
application. If you have previously installed PaperPort®Software, do not
re-install it. You can use the PaperPort®software that you already have on
your PC.
When installing both the Scanner Driver and PaperPort®Software, be sure
to install the Driver software first, then the PaperPort®Software. After all
installations are complete, restart your computer.
CopyPoint Scanner Driver can work with other TWAIN compliant
applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker, CorelDraw and
many more.

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Other Options
Install Acrobat Reader
If you don’t have Acrobat Reader installed, you should install it now. You
will need this to see the Online Manual.
View Online Manual
The PaperPort®instructions and help files are in the online documentation
on the CD-ROM.
Product Support
This page will give you information regarding Brother Support phone
numbers and services available.
Brother Home Page/The Brother Mall
If you have internet access, this selection will bring you to the Brother
Home Page or Brother Mall for purchasing product accessories. You can
find additional information about this and many other fine Brother
products on the Brother Home Page. In order to access these pages you
must have internet access through an Internet service provider.
Exit
Click Exit to exit the CD-ROM window, or click Return to return to the
previous window.

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2 - 1 USING PAPERPORT
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AND TEXTBRIDGE
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Using ScanSoft™ PaperPort®
and ScanSoft™ TextBridge®
PaperPort®for Brother is a document management application. You will
use PaperPort®to view incoming images. PaperPort®has a sophisticated,
yet easy-to-use, filing system that will help you organize your files. It
allows you to combine or “stack” documents of different formats for
printing, faxing or filing. PaperPort®can be accessed through the
PaperPort®program group.
The complete PaperPort®Owner’s Manual, including ScanSoft™
TextBridge®OCR, is in the On-Line Documentation on the CD-ROM.
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USING PAPERPORT
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AND TEXTBRIDGE
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Viewing Items in ScanSoft™ PaperPort®
PaperPort®provides several ways to view items: Desktop View displays a
thumbnail, a small graphic that represents each item in a Desktop or
folder. Items in the selected folder appear on the PaperPort®Desktop. You
can see PaperPort®items (MAX files) and non-PaperPort®items (files
created using other applications). Non-PaperPort®items include an icon
that indicates the application that was used to create the item; a non-
PaperPort®item is represented by a small rectangular thumbnail and not
an actual image.
Page View displays a close-up of a single page and you can open a
PaperPort®item by double-clicking on it. As long as you have the
appropriate application on your computer to display it, you can also
double-click a non-PaperPort®item to open it.
Desktop View displays items Page View displays each item
as thumbnails as a full page
OrganizingYour Items in Folders
PaperPort®has an easy-to-use filing system for organizing your items. The
filing system consists of folders and items that you select to view in
Desktop View. An item can be a PaperPort®item or a non-PaperPort®item:
■Folders are arranged in a “tree” structure in the Folder View. You use this
pane to select folders and view their items in Desktop View.
■You can simply drag and drop an item onto a folder. When the folder is
highlighted, release the mouse button and the item is stored in that folder.
■Folders can be “nested”—that is, stored in other folders.
■When you double-click a folder, its items (both PaperPort®MAX files and
other files) appear on the Desktop.
■You can also use Windows®Explorer to manage the folders and items
shown in Desktop View.

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AND TEXTBRIDGE
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Links to Many Other Applications
PaperPort®automatically recognizes many other applications on your
computer and creates a “working link” to them. The Link Bar at the bottom
of Desktop view shows icons of those linked applications. To use a link,
drag an item onto one of the icons to start the application represented by the
icon. A typical use of the Link Bar is to select an item and then fax it.
This sample Link Bar shows several applications with links to PaperPort®.
If PaperPort®does not automatically recognize one of the applications on
your computer, you can manually create a link using the Create New Link
command. (See PaperPort®Help for more information about creating new
links.)
Using ScanSoft™ TextBridge®OCR
(Converting Image Text to Text You Can Edit)
Software by: ScanSoft™
Images created on your copyboard and scanned into your computer cannot
be converted to text using TextBridge®OCR software, the handwritten
image on the board is saved as an image file.
TextBridge®OCR is automatically installed when you install PaperPort®
on your computer.
PaperPort®can quickly convert the text on a PaperPort®item (which is
really just a picture of the text) into text that you can edit with a word
processing application. PaperPort®uses the optical character recognition
application TextBridge®, which comes with PaperPort®—OR—PaperPort®
uses your application if it is already on your computer. You can convert the
entire item, or by using the Copy As Text command, you can select only a
portion of the text to convert.
Dragging an item onto a word-processing link icon starts PaperPort®’s
built-in OCR application, or you can use your own OCR application.

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Importing Items from Other Applications
In addition to scanning items, you can bring items into PaperPort®in a
variety of ways and convert them to PaperPort®(MAX) files in several
different ways:
■Print to the Desktop View from another application, such as Microsoft
Excel.
■Import files saved in other file formats, such as Windows®Bitmap (BMP)
or Tag Image File Format (TIFF).
Exporting Items in Other Formats
You can export or save PaperPort®items in several popular file formats,
such as BMP, JPEG, TIFF, or self-viewing. For example, to create a file
for an Internet Web site, export it as a JPEG file. Web pages often use
JPEG files for displaying images.
Setting up your port
TWAIN COMPLIANT
The Brother CopyPoint PC Link software includes a TWAIN compliant
scanner driver. TWAIN drivers meet the standard universal protocol for
communicating between copyboard scanners and software applications.
This means that not only you can scan images directly into the PaperPort®
viewer, but you can also scan images directly into hundreds of other
software applications that support TWAIN scanning. These applications
include popular programs like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker,
CorelDraw and many more.
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To choose TWAIN_32 Brother CopyPoint PC Link as your scanner driver,
select it under the Select scanner—or—Select source option in your
software.
Select File from PaperPort®menu, select Select Source.

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AND TEXTBRIDGE
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Click the Twain button on the Tool Bar, then you can find the following
window and click O.K. button.
3
Click OK until you find the screen below.
4
Click on Auto Detect. The most suitable port is selected automatically.
If you connect your PC COM ports to the Brother Copyboard and other
device such as Brother MFC, select the COM port that the copyboard is
connected to on the PC manually. If you set the COM port manually, select
Speed 19200bps or 38400bps.
5
Select O.K. to return to the twain dialog box on the Scanner window. If
you cannot return, make sure that the cable between the copyboard and PC
are connected and the power of the copyboard is switched on.

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AND TEXTBRIDGE
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Scanning what you write on the writing
surface
Accessing the Scanner
From the PaperPort®window, select the Scan or Twain button or from the
File drop-down menu choose Acquire. CopyPoint PC Link’s Twain dialog
box will appear:
Scanning what you write on the copyboard writing
surface into the PC
Make sure the cable between the copyboard and PC are connected.
1
Press Feed to make the page you want to scan appear.
2
Select the Start button from the Twain dialog box on the scanner window.
When scanning is completed, press Cancel to return to the PaperPort®
window.
PreScanning an Image
PreScanning allows you to scan an image just to view. A thumbnail
version of the image will appear in the Scanning Area. This is only a
preview of the image so you can see how it will look. The PreScan button
is used to preview an image for cropping any unwanted portions from the
image. When you are satisfied with the preview, select the Start button
from the scanner window to scan the image.

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How to use PreScan to adjust an Image:
1
Press Feed to make the page you want to scan appear on the copyboard.
2
Select the PreScan button from the twain dialog box.
The entire image on the writing surface will be scanned into the PC and
will appear in the Scanning Area of the Scanner window.
3
To crop a portion of the image scanned, drag any side or corner of the
dotted outline in the Scanning Area with the left mouse button. Adjust the
dotted outline until it surrounds only the portion of the document you wish
to scan.
4
Press Feed on your copyboard to make the page you want to scan appear
again.
5
Select the Start button from the Twain dialog box on the scanner window.
When scanning is completed, press Cancel to return to the PaperPort®
window.
Make sure that the copyboard has stopped feeding before you select Start.
This time only the selected area of the document will appear in the
PaperPort®window.
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In the PaperPort®window, use the options available to refine the image.
(See PaperPort®for Brother online documentation for details.)

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AND TEXTBRIDGE
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Changing Port setting
When you reconnect or change the plug on your PC, set the port again.
1
Click on Twain, then click OK until you find the screen as below.
2
Click on Auto Detect. The most suitable port is selected automatically.
If you connect your PC COM ports to the Brother Copyboard and other
device such as Brother MFC, select the COM port that the copyboard is
connected to on the PC manually. If you set the COM port manually, select
Speed 19200bps or 38400bps.

LE2995001
Printed in Japan
Brother International Corporation
100 Somerset Corporate Boulevard
P.O. Box 6911
Bridgewater, NJ 08807-0911 USA
Brother International Corporation (Canada), Ltd.
1 rue Hotel de Ville,
Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC, CANADA H9B 3H6
Visit us on the World Wide Web at:
http://www.brother.com
This machine is made for use in the USA and Canada only. We
cannot recommend using it overseas because the power
requirements of your copyboard may not be compatible with
the power available in foreign countries. Using USA or
Canadian models overseas is at your own risk and will
void the warranty.