Sending Faxes

Difficulty

Suggestions

 

Cannot send a fax.

Check all line cord connections. Make sure the telephone line cord is plugged into

 

the telephone wall jack and the LINE jack of the machine.

 

 

 

 

Make sure that the Fax

key is illuminated. (See Entering Fax mode

 

on page 34.)

 

 

 

 

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 89.)

 

 

 

Transmission Verification Report

There is probably temporary noise or static on the line. Try sending the fax again.

says ‘RESULT:NG’.

If you send a PC FAX message and get ‘Result:NG’ on the Transmission

 

Verification Report, your machine may be out of memory. To gain extra memory,

 

you can turn off Memory Receive (see Turning off Memory Receive Operations

 

on page 52), print fax messages in memory (see Printing a fax from the memory

 

on page 57) or cancel a Delayed Fax or Polling Job (see Canceling a fax in

 

progress on page 36 or Checking and canceling waiting jobs on page 41). 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(for VoIP). (See

 

Telephone line interference on page 150.)

Sent faxes are blank.

Make sure you are loading the document properly. (See Loading documents

 

on page 21.)

 

 

 

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 165.)

 

 

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 165.)

 

 

 

Handling Incoming Calls

Difficulty

Suggestions

The machine ‘Hears’ a voice as a

If Easy Receive is set to On, your machine is more sensitive to sounds. It may

CNG Tone.

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 Easy Receive to Off. (See Easy

 

Receive on page 48.)

 

 

Sending a fax call to the machine.

If you answered on an external or extension telephone, press your Fax Receive

 

Code (the factory setting is l 5 1). If you answered on the external telephone

 

(connected to the EXT jack), press Start to receive the fax. When your machine

 

answers, hang up.

 

 

Custom features on a single line.

If you have Call Waiting, Call Waiting/Caller ID, Voice Mail, 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 (Error

 

Correction Mode) 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.

 

 

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