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
 
 
Receiving a fax
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6
Additional receiving 
operations
6
Printing a reduced incoming 
fax 6
If you choose On, the machine automatically 
reduces each page of an incoming fax to fit on 
one page of A4, Letter, Legal or Folio size 
paper.
The machine calculates the reduction ratio by 
using the page size of the fax and your Paper 
Size setting (Menu, 1, 3).
a Make sure you are in Fax mode  .
b Press Menu, 2, 1, 5. 
21.Setup Receive
5.Auto Reduction
a On
b Off
Select 
ab & OK
c Press a or b to select On or Off. Press 
OK.
d Press Stop/Exit.
Duplex printing for Fax mode 
(MFC-8860DN and 
MFC-8870DW only) 6
If you set Duplex to On for fax receive the 
machine will print received faxes on both 
sides of the paper.
You can use A4, Letter, Legal or Folio size of 
paper for this function. 
a Make sure you are in Fax mode  .
b Press Menu, 2, 1, 0.
21.Setup Receive
0.Duplex
a On
b Off
Select 
ab & OK
c Press a or b to choose On or Off. 
Press OK.
d Press Stop/Exit.
Note
When you turn Duplex on the auto 
reduction feature is also turned on.










