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Sending Faxes
Difficulty Suggestions
Cannot send a fax. Check all line cord connections.
Make sure that the Fax key is illuminated. (See Entering Fax
mode on page 32.)
Ask the other party to check that the receiving machine has paper.
Print the Transmission Verification Report and check for an error. (See
Reports on page 75.)
Transmission Verification Report
says ‘Result:ERROR’.
There is probably temporary noise or static on the line. Try sending the fax again.
If you send a PC FAX message and get ‘Result:ERROR’ on the Transmission
Verification Report, your machine may be out of memory. To gain extra memory,
you can turn off Advanced Fax Operation (see Turning off Advanced Fax
Operations on page 70), print fax messages in memory (see Printing a fax from
the memory on page 44) or cancel a Delayed Fax or Polling Job (see Cancelling
a fax in progress on page 33 or Checking and cancelling waiting jobs on page 37).
If the problem continues, ask the telephone company to check your telephone line.
If you often get transmission errors due to possible interference on the telephone
line, try changing the menu setting of Compatibility to Basic. (See Telephone line
interference on page 135.)
If you connect your machine to PBX or ISDN, set the menu setting of Telephone
Line Type to your telephone type. (See Setting the Telephone Line
Type on page 48.)
Poor fax send quality. Try changing your resolution to Fine or S.Fine. Make a copy to check your
machine's scanner operation. If the copy quality is not good, clean the scanner.
(See Cleaning the scanner on page 139.)
Vertical black lines when sending. Black vertical lines on faxes you send are typically caused by dirt or correction
fluid on the glass strip. Clean the glass strip. (See Cleaning the
scanner on page 139.)
Handling Incoming Calls
Difficulty Suggestions
The machine ‘Hears’ a voice as a
CNG Tone.
If Fax Detect is set to on, your machine is more sensitive to sounds. It may
mistakenly interpret certain voices or music on the line as a fax machine calling
and respond with fax receiving tones. Deactivate the machine by pressing
Stop/Exit. Try avoiding this problem by turning Fax Detect to off. (See Fax
Detect on page 42.)
Sending a fax call to the machine. If you answered on an external or extension telephone, press your Remote
Activation Code (the factory setting is l 5 1). When your machine answers, hang
up.
Custom features on a single line. If you have Call Waiting, Call Waiting/Caller ID, an alarm system or other custom
feature on a single telephone line with your machine, it may create a problem
sending or receiving faxes.
For example: If you subscribe to Call Waiting or some other custom service and
its signal comes through the line while your machine is sending or receiving a fax,
the signal can temporarily interrupt or disrupt the faxes. Brother's ECM feature
should help overcome this problem. This condition is related to the telephone
system industry and is common to all devices that send and receive information
on a single, shared line with custom features. If avoiding a slight interruption is
crucial to your business, a separate telephone line with no custom features is
recommended.