Brother MFC-8500 PC-Fax, RX Setup, Ring Delay, File Format, Save file to, Setting Up Your PC, Add to Startup folder, Viewing New PC FAX Messages

Setting Up Your PC

1Right-click the PC-FAX icon on your PC Task Bar, and then click PC-Fax RX Setup.

2The PC-Fax RX Setup dialog box will appear:

3In Ring Delay, select the number of rings before your PC answers incoming calls.

4In Save file to, use the Browse button if you want to change the path where PC- FAX files will be saved.

5Make sure File Format is checked for .max (Default Required to use with PaperPort).

6If you want to, you can check the Play wave file when receiving FAX check box, and then enter the path.

7To load PC FAX receiving automatically when you statup Windows®, select the Add to Startup folder check box.

Viewing New PC FAX Messages

Each time you start to receive a PC FAX, the Blue and Red icons will blink on the PC Task Bar. The Red icon will remain.

1Run PaperPort.

2Open the Fax Received folder.

3Double-click any of the new faxes to open and view them.

The title example of your unread PC message. “Fax 2-20-2002 16:40:21 max”

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