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SETUP BROTHER MACHINE WITH PC
Before You Install Brother Printer Driver
If You Don’t Have a CD-ROM Drive
All software is supplied on CD-ROM. If you need a Floppy Disk
version for the MFC 8300’s Printer Driver (DSK8331 for Windows
®
3.1x
or DSK8395 for Windows
®
95/98), call Brother at
USA: 1-888-879-3232
From within Canada: 1-800-668-2768
From within Montreal: 1-514-685-6464
To order the appropriate set of disks, you must tell the Brother
Representative the version of Windows
®
you are using and your Brother
model number.
Computer Requirements
The following are the minimum computer requirements you need to set up
and operate the MFC as a printer. Use only a shielded interface cable that
is IEEE-1284 compliant, and that is less than 6 feet (1.8 meters) long, or
USB cable.
CPU 80486/66MHz or higher (Windows
®
3.1x or 95)
Pentium 75 or Higher (Windows
®
98 or Windows
NT
®
Workstation Version 4.0)
RAM 8MB or greater for Windows
®
3.1x
8MB or greater for Windows
®
95
(16MB recommended)
16MB or greater for Windows
®
98 or Windows NT
®
Workstation Version 4.0 (32MB recommended)
Hard Disk Drive 10MB Available Disk Space
Operating System Windows
®
3.1x, 95/98 or NT
®
Workstation Version
4.0, DOS environment compatible with your
Windows
®
version