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 6
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Setting the Fax Receive 
Stamp 6
You can set the machine to print the received 
date and time in the top centre of each 
received fax page.
a Make sure you are in Fax mode  .
b Press Menu, 2, 1, 9.
21.Setup Receive
 9.Fax Rx Stamp
a On
b Off
Select 
ab & OK
c Press a or b to choose On or Off. 
Press OK.
d Press Stop/Exit.
Note
• The received time and date will not appear 
when using Internet Fax* (*MFC-8860DN 
and MFC-8870DW only).
• Make sure you have set the current date 
and time in the machine.
Receiving faxes into memory 6
As soon as the paper tray becomes empty 
during fax reception, the screen will display 
No Paper, asking you to put paper in the 
paper tray. (See Loading paper, and other 
media on page 14.) If you are unable to put 
paper in the paper tray the following will 
happen:
If Memory Receive is On: 6
The machine will carry on receiving the fax, 
with the remaining pages being stored in 
memory, if enough memory is available. 
Further incoming faxes will also be stored into 
memory until the memory is full. When the 
memory is full the machine will stop 
automatically answering calls. To print the 
faxes, put fresh paper in the tray.
If Memory Receive is Off: 6
The machine will carry on receiving the fax, 
with the remaining pages being stored in 
memory, if enough memory is available. The 
machine will then stop automatically 
answering calls until fresh paper is put in the 
paper tray. To print the last fax you received, 
put fresh paper in the tray.
a Make sure you are in Fax mode  .
b Press Menu, 2, 1, 6.
c Use a or b to select On or Off. Press 
OK.
d Press Stop/Exit.










