User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- USER’S GUIDE MFC-790CW 990CW
- Brother numbers
- Ordering accessories and supplies
- Notice - Disclaimer of Warranties (USA and Canada)
- Compilation and Publication Notice
- Brother® One-Year Limited Warranty and Replacement Service (USA Only)
- BROTHER MULTIFUNCTION CENTER / FAX MACHINE LIMITED WARRANTY (Canada only)
- Table of Contents
- Section I: General
- 1 General Information
- 2 Loading paper and documents
- 3 General setup
- 4 Security features
- Section II: Fax
- 5 Sending a Fax
- Entering Fax mode
- Broadcasting (Black & White only)
- Additional sending operations
- Sending faxes using multiple settings
- Contrast
- Changing fax resolution
- Dual access (Black & White only)
- Real time transmission
- Overseas Mode
- Delayed Faxing (Black & White only)
- Delayed Batch Transmission (Black & White only)
- Checking and canceling waiting jobs
- Setting your changes as the new default
- Restoring all settings to the factory settings
- Sending a fax manually
- Sending a fax at the end of a conversation
- Out of Memory message
- 6 Receiving a Fax
- 7 Telephone Services and External devices
- Voice operations
- Telephone services
- Connecting an external TAD (telephone answering device)
- External and extension telephones
- 8 Dialing and storing numbers
- 9 Message Center
- 10 Printing Reports
- 11 Polling
- 5 Sending a Fax
- Section III: Copy
- Section IV: Walk-up Photo Printing
- 13 PhotoCapture Center®: Printing photos from a memory card or USB Flash memory drive
- 14 Printing photos from a camera
- 15 Wireless photo printing (MFC-990CW only)
- Section V: Software
- Section VI: Appendixes
- A Safety and Legal
- Choosing a location
- To use the machine safely
- Important safety instructions
- Standard telephone and FCC Notices (These notices are in effect on models sold and used in the United States only.)
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Declaration of Conformity (USA only)
- Industry Canada Compliance Statement (Canada only)
- LAN connection
- International ENERGY STAR® Compliance Statement
- Legal limitations for copying
- Trademarks
- B Troubleshooting and Routine Maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- Error and Maintenance messages
- Routine maintenance
- Replacing the ink cartridges
- Cleaning the outside of the machine
- Cleaning the scanner
- Cleaning the machine’s printer platen
- Cleaning the paper pick-up roller
- Cleaning the print head
- Checking the print quality
- Checking the print alignment
- Checking the ink volume
- Uninstalling and installing the handset and handset cradle (MFC-790CW only)
- Machine Information
- Packing and shipping the machine
- C Menu and Features
- D Specifications
- E Glossary
- A Safety and Legal
- Index
- brother USA/CAN
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Error animation B
Error animation displays step-by-step
instructions when paper gets jammed. You
can read the steps at your own pace by
pressing c to see the next step and d to go
backward. If you do not press a key after 1
minute the animation starts running
automatically again.
Note
You can press d or c to pause the auto-
animation and go back to step-by-step
mode.
Transferring your faxes or
Fax Journal report B
If the LCD shows:
Unable to Clean XX
Unable to Init. XX
Unable to Print XX
Unable to Scan XX
Unable to use Phone XX
We recommend transferring your faxes to
another fax machine or to your PC. (See
Transferring faxes to another fax machine
on page 157 or Transferring faxes to your PC
on page 157.)
Unable to Clean XX
Unable to Init. XX
Unable to Print XX
Unable to Scan XX
Unable to use Phone XX
(If the LCD shows error
number 46, see the error
message Unable to
Clean 46 in this table.)
The machine has a mechanical
problem.
—OR—
A foreign object such as a clip or
ripped paper is in the machine.
Open the scanner cover and look inside
the machine for foreign objects and paper
scraps. If the error message continues,
disconnect the machine from the power for
several minutes, then reconnect it. (The
machine can be turned off for
approximately 24 hours without losing
faxes stored in the memory. See
Transferring your faxes or Fax Journal
report on page 156.)
Unable to Clean 46
Unable to Init. 46
Unable to Print 46
The Ink absorber box or Flushing
box is full of ink.
The Ink absorber box or Flushing box
needs to be replaced. Call Brother
Customer Service. (See Brother numbers
on page i.)
Unsupported file type
The file you sent has an
unsupported file extension for
printing with Bluetooth
®
wireless
technology.
Send a suppported file type, with a JPG or
VNT extension.
Unusable Device
Disconnect device
from front
connector & turn
machine off & then
on
A broken device has been
connected to the USB direct
interface.
Unplug the device from the USB direct
interface, then press On/Off to turn the
machine off and then on again.
Unusable Device
Please Disconnect
USB Device.
A USB device or USB Flash
memory drive that is not
supported has been connected to
the USB direct interface.
For more information, visit us at
http://solutions.brother.com.
Unplug the device from the USB direct
interface.
Wrong Paper Size Paper is not the correct size. Check that the machine's Paper Size
setting matches the size of paper in the
tray. (See Paper Size on page 26)
Error Message Cause Action