Brother FAX-2840 Copying difficulties, Printing difficulties (For MFC-7240)

Copying difficulties

Difficulties	Suggestions
Cannot make a copy.	Make sure that COPY	is illuminated. (See How to copy uu page 45.)
Vertical black line appears in	Black vertical lines on copies are typically caused by dirt or correction fluid on the
copies.	glass strip, or the corona wire is dirty. (See Cleaning the scanner glass

uupage 66 and Cleaning the corona wire uu page 60.)

Copies are blank.	Make sure you are loading the document properly. (See Using the automatic
	document feeder (ADF) uu page 22.)

Printing difficulties (For MFC-7240)

Difficulties	Suggestions
No printout.	 Check that the machine is plugged in and the power switch is turned on.
	 Check that the toner cartridge and drum unit are installed properly. (See
	Replacing the drum unit uu page 62.)
	 Check the interface cable connection on both the machine and your computer.
	(See Quick Setup Guide.)
	 Check that the correct printer driver has been installed and chosen.
	 Check to see if the LCD is showing an error message. (See Error and
	maintenance messages uu page 69.)
	 Check that the machine is online:
	(Windows® 7) Click the Start button and Devices and Printers. Right-click
	Brother MFC-XXXX Printer and click See what’s printing. Click Printer in
	the menu bar. Make sure that Use Printer Offline is unchecked.
	(Windows Vista®) Click the Start button, Control Panel, Hardware and
	Sound, and then Printers. Right-clickBrother MFC-XXXX Printer. Make
	sure that Use Printer Offline is unchecked.
	(Windows® XP) Click the Start button and choose Printers and Faxes.
	Right-clickBrother MFC-XXXX Printer. Make sure that Use Printer Offline
	is unchecked.
The machine prints unexpectedly	 Press Stop/Exit to cancel print jobs.
or it prints garbage.	 Check the settings in your application to make sure it is set up to work with
	your machine.
	 Pull out the paper tray and wait until the machine stops printing. Then turn off
	the machine’s power switch and disconnect from the power for several
	minutes.
	The faxes stored in the machine memory will be deleted. See Transferring
	your faxes or Fax Journal report uu page 74 before disconnecting the
	machine so you will not lose any important messages.
The machine prints the first couple	 Check the settings in your application to make sure that it is set up to work with
of pages correctly, then some	your machine.
pages have text missing.	 Your computer is not recognizing the machine’s input buffer’s full signal. Make
	sure that you connected the interface cable correctly. (See Quick Setup
	Guide.)
The headers or footers appear	There is an unprintable area on the top and bottom of the page. Adjust the top and
when the document displays on the	bottom margins in your document to allow for this. (See Unscannable and
screen but they do not show up	unprintable areas uu page 15.)
when it is printed.

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