Brother MFC8460N was working great and now today the scanner won't work. Printer and fax work fine. When I try to scan I get the message "MFC-8460N cannot be found. Please make sure your device is ON and interface cable is connected properly (CC027). I have disconnected and reconnected, turned off, rebooted....I'm at a lose of what to do. Please help.

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if the message refers to the scanner, open the cover of the feeding unit on top of the printer and clean it with compressed air. Most probably an insect got stuck somewhere

John Tuminaro

• 56 Answers
• Posted on Jan 15, 2009

SOURCE: Need to reset 'Drum near end' warning on Brother MFC-8460N.

Open the front door
Press clear
then press 1

SOURCE: how to connect my brother mfc-8460N scanner can't

You will need to use a cable to use the scanner.

Either a USB cable to connect directly to computer or an ethernet cable directly to router, then you will need to install the driver software.

SOURCE: Home | Printers | Brother MFC 846CN error...

Try the Control Center update tool.

For Windows XP
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/ca/en/dlf/dlf/000000/003200/dlf003221.html?reg=us&c=ca&lang=en&prod=mfc8460n_all&type2=2&os=7&flang=8&dlid=dlf003221

For Windows Vista
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/ca/en/dlf/dlf/000000/003500/dlf003530.html?reg=us&c=ca&lang=en&prod=mfc8460n_all&type2=2&os=74&flang=8&dlid=dlf003530

SOURCE: Brother MFC-8460N network printing, local scanning

Yes this is possible. Depending on the type of installation that has been done on the computer, you can even scan documents to your computer as a network scanner.

You can check and see if all the features have been installed on your computer. Click on start, all programs, and look for the folder called brother. If you can find brother you can look for the sub category for Conrtrol Center. From Control Center you can scan by clicking on one of the icons. Like file or image.

If none of this is installed, get your installation disk and install the software, you can do a network installation or a Local (USB) installation.

If you decide to do a Local installtion remember to only plug in the USB cable when promted to.

If you decide to do a network installation, the machine should already be installed on the network, which I assume it is since its being used as a network Printer.

Please let me know if any of this info was usefull, and if you require more info about this.