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
 
 
Chapter 3
18
Paper Size 3
You can use nine sizes of paper for printing 
copies: A4, Letter, Legal, Executive, A5, A6, 
B5, B6 and Folio, and four sizes for printing 
faxes: A4, Letter, Legal or Folio. 
When you change the type of paper you load 
in the machine, you will also need to change 
the setting for paper size at the same time. 
This is so your machine can fit an incoming 
fax onto the page.
a Choose one of the options below:
 To set the paper size for the 
MP Tray press Menu, 1, 3, 1. 
 To set the paper size for Tray#1 
press Menu, 1, 3, 2. 
 To set the paper size for Tray#2 
press Menu, 1, 3, 3 if you installed 
the optional tray.
13.Paper Size
1.MP Tray
a A4
b Letter
Select 
ab & OK
b Press a or b to select A4, Letter, 
Legal, Executive, A5, A6, B5, B6, 
Folio or Any.
Press OK.
c Press Stop/Exit.
Note
• Legal, Folio and Any appear only when 
you select the MP tray (Menu, 1, 3, 1).
• A6 size is not available for the optional 
Tray #2.
• If you select Any for the MP Tray Paper 
Size: You must choose MP Only for the 
Tray Use setting. You cannot use the Any 
Paper Size selection for the MP tray when 
making N in 1 copies. You must choose 
one of the other available Paper Size 
selections for the MP tray.
Tray use in Copy mode 3
You can change the default tray priority that 
the machine will use for printing copies. 
When you select Tray#1 Only, MP Only or 
Tray#2 Only
 1
, the machine takes paper 
only from that tray. If the selected tray is out 
of paper, No Paper will appear on the LCD. 
Insert the paper in the empty tray.
When you select T1>T2>MP, the machine 
takes paper from Tray #1 until it is empty, 
then from Tray #2, then from the MP tray. 
When you select MP>T1>T2, the machine 
takes paper from the MP tray until it is empty, 
then from Tray #1, then from Tray #2.
To change the tray settings follow the 
instructions below:
a Press Menu, 1, 7, 1.
17.Tray Use
1.Copy
a Tray#1 Only
b MP Only
Select ab & OK
b Press a or b to select Tray#1 Only, 
Tray#2 Only
 1
, MP Only, 
MP>T1>T2
 1
 or T1>T2
 1
>MP. Press OK.
1
Tray#2 Only and T2 appear only if the 
optional tray is installed.
c Press Stop/Exit.
Note
• When loading the documents from the 
ADF and MP>T1>T2 or T1>T2>MP is 
selected, the machine looks for the tray 
with the most suitable paper and takes 
paper from that tray. If no tray has suitable 
paper, the machine takes paper from the 
tray with the highest priority.
• When using the scanner glass, your 
document is copied from the tray with the 
highest priority even if more suitable paper 
is in another paper tray.










