Brother FAX-2900, FAX-3800 owner manual

Contrast A setting that compensates for dark or light originals, by lightening dark documents or darkening light documents.

Cover Page Prints a page at the other party’s machine that contains the sender and recipient’s name and fax number, number of pages and comment. You can generate an electronic cover page at the other end with pre-programmed information from memory, or you can print a sample cover page to fax with your document.

Cover Page Message The comment that is on the Cover Page. This is a programmable feature.

Delayed Fax Sends your fax at a later time that day.

Delayed Timer You can program a certain time each day that all delayed faxes will be sent on a first come first served basis.

Distinctive Ring A service purchased from the Telephone Company that provides another phone number on an existing phone line. The Brother FAX/MFC uses the new number to simulate a dedicated fax line.

drum unit A printing device for your FAX/MFC.

Dual Access (Not available for color fax) Your FAX/MFC can scan outgoing faxes or scheduled jobs into memory at the same time it is sending a fax or receiving or printing an incoming fax.

Easy Receive Enables your FAX/MFC to respond to CNG tones if you interrupt a fax call by answering it.

ECM (Error Correction Mode) Detects errors during fax transmission and resends the page(s) that had an error.

Electronic Cover Page A preprogrammed cover page that is transmitted from the FAX/MFC’s memory, eliminating the need for making up cover pages manually.

extension phone A telephone on the fax number that is plugged into a separate wall jack.

external phone A TAD (telephone answering device) or telephone that is plugged into the EXT jack of your FAX/MFC.

F/T Ring Time The length of time the FAX/MFC rings (when the answer mode setting is FAX/ TEL) to notify you to pick up a voice call that it answered.

FAX/TEL mode You can receive faxes and telephone calls. Do not use FAX/TEL if you are using an external answering machine.

Fax Activity Report Lists information about the last 200 incoming and outgoing faxes. TX means Transmit. RX means Receive.

Fax Forwarding Sends a fax received in memory to another preprogrammed fax number.

Fax Storage You can print stored faxes later, or retrieve them from another location using Fax Forwarding, Paging, or Remote Retrieval functions.

fax tones The signals sent by sending and receiving fax machines while communicating information.

Fine Mode Resolution is 203 ⋅ 196 dpi. It is used for small print and graphs.

gray scale The shades of gray available for copying and faxing photographs.

Group number A combination of One Touch (FAX models only) and Speed Dial numbers that are stored in a Speed Dial location (or One Touch key for FAX models only) for Broadcasting.

Interval The preprogrammed time period between automatically printed Fax Activity Reports. You can print Activity Reports on demand without interrupting this cycle.

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