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From: Salmon Egg on 11 Jul 2010 19:13
I am still trying to get back where I was wrt scanning on my Brother
MFC-8940D. I am now using Snow Leopard. Earlier, I was able to use
Brother's ControlCenter2 without any problems. I just downloaded and
installed the latest driver. Among other things, there are two menulet
icons on the menu. They seem functional as menues, but the control
center is not. How do I remove them?

I find the new way to use the printer/fax preference for scanning
awkward at best. What am I missing if anything?

Bill

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An old man would be better off never having been born.
From: David Empson on 12 Jul 2010 01:22
Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I am still trying to get back where I was wrt scanning on my Brother
> MFC-8940D. I am now using Snow Leopard. Earlier, I was able to use
> Brother's ControlCenter2 without any problems. I just downloaded and
> installed the latest driver. Among other things, there are two menulet
> icons on the menu. They seem functional as menues, but the control
> center is not. How do I remove them?

What are these particular "menulets"?

There are two ways for menulets to be created:

(a) Via SystemUIServer, which is a standard facility provided with Mac
OS X. It is used by Apple for all their menu bar icons controlled by
various items in System Preferences. (Spotlight is handled separately.)

(b) Third party applications can add their own menulets. These always
appear to the left of the ones created by SystemUIServer, and the way
you deal with them is different.

For all the ones in group (a), you can rearrange them (within that
group) by holding down the Command key and dragging the icon left or
right. You can get rid of one by holding down the Command key and
dragging it off the menu bar, or by locating the appropriate setting in
System Preferences and unchecking it. (To bring it back again, you need
to find the checkbox in System Preferences to enable that menulet.)

For all the ones in group (b), you need to identify which application is
creating the menulet, and deal with it in that application, either by
not running that application, or changing an application-specific
preference not to display the menu. These ones can't be manually removed
from the menu bar with a keyboard shortcut (unless the third party
developer has implemented a method similar to that used by
SystemUIServer), and these icons can't be dragged around relative to
each other (order is set by order in which the application support files
are loaded at login time).

> I find the new way to use the printer/fax preference for scanning
> awkward at best. What am I missing if anything?

I use Image Capture to do scanning with my networked Brother MFC under
Snow Leopard. Put it in your Dock if you need to scan often enough.
Easier to locate the relevant scanner by clicking in the Image Capture
sidebar, rather than hunting through System Preferences.

I always found Brother Control Center to be an annoyance so I'm glad I
don't need it darkening my door any more under Snow Leopard.
--
David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Salmon Egg on 13 Jul 2010 22:54
In article <SalmonEgg-898738.16132911072010(a)news60.forteinc.com>,
Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I am still trying to get back where I was wrt scanning on my Brother
> MFC-8940D. I am now using Snow Leopard. Earlier, I was able to use
> Brother's ControlCenter2 without any problems. I just downloaded and
> installed the latest driver. Among other things, there are two menulet
> icons on the menu. They seem functional as menues, but the control
> center is not. How do I remove them?
>
> I find the new way to use the printer/fax preference for scanning
> awkward at best. What am I missing if anything?
>
> Bill

The second icon went away.

The OS 10.6.4 upgrade seem to make the scanning work more to my liking.
Of course, I have no idea of what actually took place, For me, the
characters that are scanned seem to be a bit bolder and with more
contrast so as to be easier to read.

Bill

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An old man would be better off never having been born.
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