Muratec MFX-1500E Sending faxes, Guidelines, Sizes, Resolution, grayscale and contrast

Sending faxes

Guidelines

Page sizes

While you’ll probably send letter- and legal-sized documents most of the time, it’s possible to fax a piece of paper as small as a notepad sheet or one nearly three feet long.

The acceptable dimensions (width × length) are:

Automatic document feeder (ADF)

SINGLE-SHEET	MULTIPLE-SHEET
Maximum:12.0″ × 35.4″	Maximum:11.7″ × 16.5″
Minimum: 4.7″ × 3.9″	Minimum: 5.8″ × 4.1″
Flatbed scanner (FBS)
Maximum:10.1″ × 14.3″

Getting started

Resolution, grayscale and contrast

Reviewing resolution and grayscale:

•Normal resolution (“NORM” on the control panel) is suitable for most typed documents and simple drawings.

•Fine resolution (“FINE” on the control panel) is ideal for maps, moderately compli- cated drawings, floorplans or handwritten documents.

•Superfine resolution (“S-FINE” on the control panel, “S Fine” on the LCD) reproduces the detail of extremely complicated drawings or line art.

•Grayscale mode (“HALFTONE” on the control panel; “Gray” on the LCD) captures shades in photos and drawings.

Note: If you send a fax in superfine, certain fax models (especially older, non- Muratec models) receive it only in fine mode. However, you can send a fax in grayscale mode to virtually any fax machine currently in use.

Things not to put in your fax

To avoid paper jams and damage to your machine, don’t insert:

• Folded, curled, torn, wrinkled or very thin pages
• Documents with staples, glue, tape, paper clips or still-wet correction fluid
•	“Sticky notes” (or documents with “sticky notes” attached)
•	Cardboard, newspaper or fabric

HALFTONE

S-FINE

FINE

RESOLUTION

To change the resolution setting, press RESOLUTION repeatedly. As noted above, if neither the FINE, S-FINEnor HALFTONE LED (light- emitting diode; in this case, a small green light) is glowing, your fax is set for normal resolution. Otherwise, a glowing LED indicates the fax is using the setting named by that LED. For example, in the drawing (left), the machine is set for FINE resolution.

• Pages with duplicating carbon on either side

• Credit cards or any small, thick items

Contrast

Setting the contrast allows you to compensate for any excessive lightness or dark- ness, as the case may be, of document pages you are sending or copying.

To change the contrast setting:

1	Press CONTRAST on the control panel. The display, or LCD (liquid crystal dis-
	play), indicates the current contrast setting.

2 To adjust the contrast setting, press , or CONTRAST. To light up an overly dark document, press .

To darken an overly weak document, press .

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