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
Telephone Services and External devices
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7
External and extension
telephones
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Connecting an external or
extension telephone 7
You can connect a separate telephone or
telephone answering device directly to your
machine as shown in the diagram below.
Connect the telephone line cord to the jack
labeled EXT.
Before you connect the external telephone
answering machine, remove the protective
cap (3) from the EXT. jack on the machine.
1 Extension telephone
2 External telephone
When you are using an external or extension
telephone, the LCD shows
Ext. Tel in Use.
Using external and extension
telephones 7
Using extension telephones 7
If you answer a fax call on an extension
telephone, you can make your machine
receive the fax by pressing the Fax Receive
Code l 51.
If the machine answers a voice call and
pseudo/double-rings for you to take over, use
the Telephone Answer Code #51 to take the
call at an extension telephone. (See F/T Ring
Time (Fax/Tel mode only) on page 48.)
Using an external telephone
(connected to the EXT. jack of the
machine)
7
If you answer a fax call at the external
telephone, you can make the machine
receive the fax by pressing Speaker Phone
followed by Black Start.
If you answer a call and no one is on
the line:
7
You should assume that you're receiving a
manual fax.
Press l 51 and wait for the chirp or until the
LCD shows Receiving, and then hang up.
Note
You can also use the Easy Receive
feature to make your machine
automatically take the call. (See Easy
Receive on page 49.)
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