User Guide
Table Of Contents
- USER’S GUIDE MFC-8460N/MFC-8860DN/MFC-8870DW
- Approval Information and Compilation and Publication Notice
 - EC Declaration of Conformity under the R & TTE Directive
 - Table of Contents
 - Section I: General
- 1 General information
- Using the documentation
 - Accessing the complete User’s Guide
- Viewing documentation
- Viewing documentation (Windows®)
 - How to find Scanning instructions
 - Software User's Guide:
 - PaperPort® User's Guide:
 - How to find Internet FAX instructions (MFC-8860DN and MFC-8870DW only)
 - Viewing Documentation (Macintosh®)
 - How to find Scanning instructions
 - Software User's Guide:
 - Presto!® PageManager® User's Guide:
 - How to find Internet FAX instructions (MFC-8860DN and MFC-8870DW only)
 
 
 - Viewing documentation
 - Control panel overview
 
 - 2 Loading documents and paper
 - 3 General setup
 - 4 Security features
 
 - 1 General information
 - Section II: Fax
- 5 Sending a fax
- How to fax
 - Broadcasting
 - Additional sending operations
 
 - 6 Receiving a fax
 - 7 Phone and external devices
 - 8 Dialling and storing numbers
 - 9 Remote fax options
 - 10 Printing reports
 - 11 Polling
 
 - 5 Sending a fax
 - Section III: Copy
 - Section IV: Software
 - Section V: Appendices
- A Safety and Legal
 - B Options
 - C Troubleshooting and routine maintenance
 - D Menu and Features
 - E Specifications E
 - F Glossary
 
 - Index
 - brother UK/IRE/SAF
 
 
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ADF (automatic document feeder)
The document can be placed in the ADF 
and scanned one page at a time 
automatically.
Auto Reduction
Reduces the size of incoming faxes.
Automatic fax transmission
Sending a fax without picking up the 
handset of the external phone or pressing 
Tel/R.
Automatic Redial
A feature that enables your machine to 
redial the last fax number after five 
minutes if the fax did not go through 
because the line was busy.
Backup Print
Your machine prints a copy of every fax 
that is received and stored in memory.This 
is a safety feature so you will not lose 
messages during a power failure.
Batch Transmission
As a cost saving feature, all delayed faxes 
to the same fax number will be sent as one 
transmission.
Beeper Volume
Volume setting for the beep when you 
press a key or make an error.
Broadcasting
The ability to send the same fax message 
to more than one location.
BT Call Sign
A subscriber service purchased from the 
telephone company in U.K. that gives you 
another phone number on an existing 
phone line. The Brother machine uses the 
new number to simulate a dedicated fax 
line.
Caller ID
A service purchased from the telephone 
company that lets you see the number (or 
name) of the party calling you.
Cancel Job
Cancels a programmed job, like Delayed 
Fax or Polling.
CNG tones
The special tones (beeps) sent by fax 
machines during automatic transmission 
to tell the receiving machine that a fax 
machine is calling.
Coding method
Method of coding the information 
contained in the document. All fax 
machines must use a minimum standard 
of Modified Huffman (MH). Your machine 
is capable of greater compression 
methods, Modified Read (MR), Modified 
Modified Read (MMR) and JBIG, if the 
receiving machine has the same 
capability.
Communication error (or Comm. Error)
An error during fax sending or receiving, 
usually caused by line noise or static.
Compatibility group
The ability of one fax unit to communicate 
with another. Compatibility is assured 
between ITU-T Groups.
Contrast
Setting to compensate for dark or light 
documents, by making faxes or copies of 
dark documents lighter and light 
documents darker.
Delayed Fax
Sends your fax at a specified later time 
that day.
Dual Access
Your machine can scan outgoing faxes or 
scheduled jobs into memory at the same 
time it is sending a fax or receiving or 
printing an incoming fax.
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