Preparing to Send a Fax

Documents You Can Fax

For information on the types of documents you can fax, their requirements, and details on loading documents, 1 Chapter 4.

Adjusting the Quality of Your Faxes

Canon’s Ultra High Quality (UHQ) imaging technology enables you to send documents that are very close to the quality of the original. Your unit allows you to send a document in colour or black & white, and to adjust the resolution and contrast to best suit your particular document.

Setting Colour or Black & White Transmission

Your unit can send faxes in black & white. It can also send faxes in colour to fax machines with colour capability. Before sending a document, you need to adjust whether the document will be sent in colour, or in black & white only.

To send in black & white:

Make sure the Colour/B&W button’s light is off. If not, press Colour/B&W to turn it off.

To send in colour (to fax machines that support colour fax reception):

Press Colour/B&W to turn on its light.

nIf you attempt to send a colour document to a fax machine that does not support colour faxing, the document will not be sent and the LCD will display TRY AGAIN IN B&W. Try sending again in black & white. Alternatively, you can enable the COLOUR DIRECT TX setting (1 p. 14-6) that converts colour faxes to black & white if the other party’s fax machine does not support colour faxing, thus enabling you to send colour documents to any fax machine without an error occurring.

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Sending Faxes

Chapter 7