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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Table of Contents
Section I General
1 General information
Using the documentation.......................................................................................2
Symbols and conventions used in the documentation ....................................2
Accessing the complete User’s Guide...................................................................2
Viewing documentation ...................................................................................2
Control panel overview ..........................................................................................5
Status LED indications ....................................................................................8
2 Loading documents and paper
Loading documents .............................................................................................10
Using the ADF ...............................................................................................10
Using the scanner glass ................................................................................11
Acceptable paper and other media......................................................................11
Recommended media ...................................................................................11
Handling and using media .............................................................................12
Loading paper, and other media..........................................................................14
Loading paper................................................................................................14
Loading envelopes and other media .............................................................15
Printable Area................................................................................................16
3 General setup
Mode timer...........................................................................................................17
Paper settings......................................................................................................17
Paper Type ....................................................................................................17
Paper Size .....................................................................................................18
Tray use in Copy mode .................................................................................18
Tray use in Fax mode....................................................................................19
Tray use in Print mode ..................................................................................19
Volume Settings...................................................................................................20
Ring volume...................................................................................................20
Beeper volume ..............................................................................................20
Speaker volume.............................................................................................20
Automatic daylight savings time ..........................................................................21
Ecology features..................................................................................................21
Toner save.....................................................................................................21
Sleep time......................................................................................................22
Turning off the scanner lamp.........................................................................22
LCD Contrast.......................................................................................................22










