B Glossary

This is a comprehensive list of features and terms that appear in Brother manuals. Availability of these features depends on the model you purchased.

1.8" Touchscreen LCD and Touchpanel

The Touchscreen LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) on the machine shows interactive messages and prompts for using the machine. You can operate the Touchscreen by pressing it. The Touchpanel, on the right side of the Touchscreen LCD, illuminates its LEDs when they are available for the current operation.

Address Book

Your list of Speed Dial names and numbers that you have stored for easy dialing.

ADF (automatic document feeder)

The document can be placed in the ADF and scanned one page at a time automatically.

Auto Reduction

Reduces the size of incoming faxes.

Automatic Redial

A feature that enables your machine to redial the last fax number after five minutes if the fax did not go through because the line was busy.

Backup Print

Your machine prints a copy of every fax that is received and stored in its memory. This is a safety feature so you will not lose messages during a power failure.

Batch Transmission

(Black & white faxes only) As a cost-saving feature, all delayed faxes to the same fax number can be sent as one transmission.

Beeper Volume

Volume setting for the beep when you press a key or make an error.

Brightness

Changing the Brightness makes the whole image lighter or darker.

Broadcasting

The ability to send the same fax message to more than one location.

Caller ID

A service purchased from the telephone company that lets you see the number (or name) of the party calling you.

CNG tones

The special tones (beeps) sent by fax machines during automatic transmission to tell the receiving machine that a fax machine is calling.

Coding method

Method of coding the information contained in the document. All fax machines must use a minimum standard of Modified Huffman (MH). Your machine is capable of greater compression methods, Modified Read (MR), Modified Modified Read (MMR) and JPEG, if the receiving machine has the same capability.

Communication error (Comm. Error)

An error during fax sending or receiving, usually caused by line noise or static.

Compatibility group

The ability of one fax unit to communicate with another. Compatibility is assured between ITU-T Groups.

Contrast

Setting to compensate for dark or light documents, by making faxes or copies of dark documents lighter and light documents darker.

Delayed Fax

Sends your fax at a specified time later.

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