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
 
 
Sending a fax
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5
Additional sending 
operations
5
Sending faxes using multiple 
settings 5
Before you send a fax, you can change any 
combination of these settings: contrast, 
resolution, overseas mode, delayed fax timer, 
polling transmission, real time, transmission 
or cover page settings.
a Make sure you are in Fax mode  .
After each setting is accepted, the LCD 
asks if you want to enter more settings:
22.Setup Send
Next?
a 1.Yes
b 2.No
Select ab & OK
b Do one of the following:
 To choose more settings, press 1. 
The LCD returns to the Setup Send 
menu.
 If you have finished choosing 
settings, press 2 and go to the next 
step.
Electronic cover page 5
This feature will not work unless you have 
already programmed your Station ID. (See 
the Quick Setup Guide.) 
You can automatically send a cover page 
with every fax. Your cover page includes your 
Station ID, a comment, and the name stored 
in the One-Touch or Speed-Dial memory.
By choosing Next Fax:On you can also 
display the number of pages on the cover 
page.
You can choose one of the following preset 
comments, or you can store two personal 
comments, up to 27 characters long:
 Comment Off
 Please Call
 Urgent
 Confidential
Composing your own comments 5
You can set up two comments of your own.
a Make sure you are in Fax mode  .
b Press Menu, 2, 2, 8.
22.Setup Send
8.Coverpage Note
a 5.
b 6.
Select ab & OK
c Press a or b to choose 5 or 6 to store 
your own comment. Press OK.
d Enter your own comment using the dial 
pad. Press OK.
Use the chart on page 146 for help entering 
characters. 










