User Manual
Table Of Contents
- USER’S GUIDE MFC-685CW MFC-885CW
- 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 MACHINE LIMITED WARRANTY (Canada only)
- Table of Contents
- Section I: General
- 1 General Information
- 2 Loading documents and paper
- 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
- 8 Dialing and storing numbers
- 9 Message Center
- 10 Advanced fax operations (Black & White only)
- 11 Printing Reports
- 12 Polling
- 5 Sending a fax
- Section III: Copy
- 13 Making copies
- How to copy
- Copy settings
- ‘Out of Memory’ message
- 13 Making copies
- Section IV: Walk-up Photo Printing
- Section V: Software
- Section VI: Appendixes
- A Safety and Legal
- B Troubleshooting and Routine Maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- Error messages
- Routine maintenance
- Replacing the ink cartridges
- Cleaning the outside of the machine
- Cleaning the scanner
- Cleaning the machine 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-685CW only)
- Machine Information
- Packing and shipping the machine
- C Menu and Features
- D Specifications
- E Glossary
- Index
- brother USA/CAN
Troubleshooting and Routine Maintenance
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B
Error animation B
Error animation displays step-by-step
instructions when paper gets jammed or ink
cartridges become empty. 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, c or OK 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 142 or Transferring faxes to your PC
on page 142.)
You can also transfer the Fax Journal report
to see if there are any faxes you need to
transfer. (See Transferring Fax Journal report
to another fax machine on page 142.)
Note
If there is an error message on the
machine's LCD, after the faxes have been
transferred, disconnect the machine from
the power source for several minutes, and
then reconnect it.
Unusable Device
Disconnect device
from front connect
or & turn machine
off&thenon
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. Load the correct size of paper (Letter,
Legal or A4), and then press Black Start
or Color Start.
Error Message Cause Action