Advanced User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Advanced User’s Guide MFC-J650DW MFC-J870DW MFC-J875DW
- User's Guides and where do I find them?
 - Table of Contents
 - 1 General setup
 - 2 Security features
 - 3 Sending a fax
- Additional sending options
 - Additional sending operations
 - Polling overview
 
 - 4 Receiving a fax
 - 5 Dialing and storing numbers
 - 6 Printing reports
 - 7 Making copies
- Copy options
- Stop copying
 - Improving copy quality
 - Enlarging or reducing copies
 - Making N in 1 copies or a poster (Page Layout)
 - 2 in 1 ID Copy (Page Layout)
 - Sorting copies
 - Adjusting Density
 - Ink Save Mode (MFC-J870DW and MFC-J875DW)
 - Thin Paper Copy (MFC-J870DW and MFC-J875DW)
 - Book Copy (MFC-J870DW and MFC-J875DW)
 - Watermark Copy (MFC-J870DW and MFC-J875DW)
 - Remove Background Color
 - 2-sided copying
 - Setting your changes as the new default
 - Restoring all settings to the factory settings
 - Saving copy options as a Shortcut
 
 
 - Copy options
 - 8 PhotoCapture Center™: Printing photos from a memory card or USB Flash drive
 - 9 Printing photos from a camera
 - A Routine maintenance
 - B Glossary
 - Index
 - brother USA/CAN
 
 
Chapter 4
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Remote Retrieval 4
You can call your machine from any 
touch-tone telephone or fax machine and 
then use the Remote Access Code and 
remote commands to retrieve fax messages.
Setting a Remote Access 
Code 4
The Remote Access Code lets you access 
the remote retrieval features when you are 
away from your machine. Before you can use 
the remote access and retrieval features, you 
have to set up your own code. The factory 
default code is the inactive code (--- ).
a Press (Settings).
b Press All Settings.
c Press a or b to display Fax.
d Press Fax.
e Press a or b to display 
Remote Access.
f Press Remote Access.
g Enter a three-digit code using numbers 
0 to 9, l, or # using the keyboard on the 
Touchscreen.
Press OK. 
(The preset ‘l’ cannot be changed.)
NOTE
Do not use the same code as your Fax 
Receive Code (l 51) or Telephone 
Answer Code (#51). (See Basic User’s 
Guide: Using external and extension 
telephones.)
h Press .
NOTE
You can change your code at any time by 
entering a new one. If you want to make 
your code inactive, press and hold   in 
step g to restore the inactive setting (---l) 
and press OK.
Using your Remote Access 
Code 4
a Dial your fax number from a touch-tone 
telephone or another fax machine.
b When your machine answers, enter 
your Remote Access Code (3 digits 
followed by  ) at once.
c The machine signals if it has received 
messages:
 1 long beep — Fax messages
 No beeps — No messages
d When the machine gives two short 
beeps, enter a command.
The machine will hang up if you wait 
longer than 30 seconds to enter a 
command. 
The machine will beep three times if you 
enter an invalid command.
e Press 90 to stop Remote Access when 
you have finished.
f Hang up.
NOTE
• If your machine is set to Manual mode 
and you want to use the remote retrieval 
features, wait for about 100 seconds after 
it starts ringing, and then enter the remote 
access code within 30 seconds.
• This function may not be available in some 
countries or supported by your local 
telephone company.










