Dual Access

You can scan up to 50 documents into the fax memory, even while the machine is receiving or sending another fax (from memory). You can set temporary settings for each fax you're scanning, except Timer and Polling.

If you try to scan in and store a 51st fax, the machine will send it immediately, without storing it in memory.

If you get a MEMORY FULL message while scanning the first page of a fax, press Stop to cancel scanning. If you get a MEMORY FULL message while scanning in a subsequent page, you'll have the option to press Start to transmit the pages scanned so far, or to press Stop to cancel the operation.

1Make sure the document feeder is empty.

2Place the document in the feeder.

3Enter the fax number.

4Press Start . The machine starts scanning the document and the screen displays the job number (#XX) of the fax and how much memory is available. Then the machine starts dialing. You can immediately repeat steps 1 through 4 for the next fax.

Your machine normally operates in Dual Access mode. However, you can override Dual Access by using Real Time Transmission.

The number of documents you can scan into memory varies with the data they contain.

Real Time Transmission

When Memory is full, the machine cannot continue to scan documents into memory before sending. However, you can turn on REAL TIME TX; place the documents in the feeder and enter the fax number. As soon as the phone line is free, the machine starts dialing and sending the fax.

1Place the document in the feeder.

2 For the FAX, press Function , 3 , 9 .

9.REAL TIME TX

For the MFC, press Function , 1 , 3 , 9 .

3To change the default setting,

press or to select ON (or OFF) and press Set . Go to Step 5—OR—

For the next fax transmission only,

press or to select

NEXT FAX ONLY and press Set .

4 For the next fax only, press or to

REAL TIME:ON?￿

select ON (or OFF) and press Set .

SELECT <- -> & SET

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Brother MFC 8300, MFC 8600, MFC 8700, FAX 5750 manual Dual Access, Real Time Transmission, Real Time TX, Real TIMEON?

MFC 8300, MFC 8700, MFC 8600, FAX 5750 specifications

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