User Manual
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
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Tray use in Fax mode 3
You can change the default tray priority that 
the machine will use for printing received 
faxes.
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.
Note
• You can use four sizes of paper for 
printing faxes: A4, Letter, Legal or Folio. 
When a suitable size is not in any of the 
trays received faxes will be stored in the 
machine
’s memory and 
Check Paper Size will appear on the 
LCD. For details, see Check Paper Size 
on page 106.
• If the tray is out of paper and received 
faxes are in the machine
’s memory, 
No Paper will appear on the LCD. Insert 
paper in the empty tray.
a Press Menu, 1, 7, 2.
17.Tray Use
2.Fax
a MP>T1
b T1>MP
Select 
ab & OK
b Press a or b to select Tray#1 Only, 
Tray#2 Only, 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.
Tray use in Print mode 3
You can change the default tray the machine 
will use for printing from your computer.
a Press Menu, 1, 7, 3.
17.Tray Use
3.Print
a MP>T1
b T1>MP
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.
Note
• The setting in the printer driver will take 
priority over the setting made on the 
control panel. 
• If the control panel is set to 
Tray#1 Only, Tray#2 Only, MP Only 
or MP>T1>T2 and you choose ‘Auto 
Select’ in the printer driver, the tray use 
will be MP>T1>T2.
If the control panel is set to T1>T2>MP and 
you choose ‘Auto Select’ in the printer 
driver, the tray use will remain T1>T2>MP.










