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
Sending a Fax
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5
Faxing from the scanner glass5
You can use the scanner glass to fax pages
of a book one at a time. The document can be
up to Letter or A4 size.
You cannot send color faxes with multiple
pages.
Note
Since you can only scan one page at a
time, it is easier to use the ADF if you are
sending a multiple page document.
a Press (Fax).
b Load your document face down on the
scanner glass. (See Using the scanner
glass on page 21.)
c Enter the fax number using the dial pad
or Speed Dial.
Note
You can preview a fax message before
sending it by pressing Preview. For
details, see How to preview an outgoing
fax on page 38.
d Press Black Start or Color Start.
If you press Black Start, the
machine starts scanning the first
page. Go to step e.
If you press Color Start, the
machine starts sending the
document.
e When the LCD asks you Next Page?,
do one of the following:
To send a single page, press No (or
press Black Start again).
The machine starts sending the
document.
To send more than one page, press
Yes and go to step f.
f Place the next page on the scanner
glass.
Press Black Start or Color Start.
The machine starts scanning the page.
(Repeat steps e and f for each
additional page.)
Faxing A4 size documents
from the scanner glass 5
When documents are A4 size, you need to
set Glass ScanSize to A4. If you do not,
the bottom portion of the faxes will be
missing.
a Press (Fax).
b Press d or c to display
Glass ScanSize.
c Press Glass ScanSize.
d Press A4.
Note
You can save the setting you use most
often by setting it as default. (See Setting
your changes as the new default
on page 43.)
Color fax transmission 5
Your machine can send a color fax to
machines that support this feature.
Color faxes cannot be stored in the memory.
When you send a color fax, the machine will
send it in real time (even if Real Time TX is
set to Off).