Brother MFC 250C User Manual

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7 Telephone Services and External devices 39
Voice Operations ................................................................................................. 39
Tone or pulse (Canada only) ......................................................................... 39
Fax/Tel mode................................................................................................. 39
Telephone services.............................................................................................. 39
Voice...

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Section III Copy
10 Making copies  56
How to copy ......................................................................................................... 56
Entering Copy mode ...................................................................................... 56
Making a single copy ..................................................................................... 56
Making multiple copies .................................................................................. 56
Stop copying...

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12 Printing photos from a camera  75
Printing photos directly from a PictBridge camera ............................................... 75
PictBridge requirements ................................................................................ 75
Setting your digital camera ............................................................................ 75
Printing Images.............................................................................................. 76
DPOF printing...

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B Troubleshooting and Routine Maintenance 94
Troubleshooting ................................................................................................... 94
If you are having difficulty with your machine ................................................ 94
Dial Tone  .................................................................................................... 101
Telephone line interference ......................................................................... 101
Error and...

Section I
GeneralI
General Information2
Loading paper and documents8
General setup19
Security features23
 

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1
Using the 
documentation
1
Thank you for buying a Brother machine! 
Reading the documentation will help you 
make the most of your machine. 
Symbols and conventions 
used in the documentation1
The following symbols and conventions are 
used throughout the documentation.
Accessing the 
Software User’s Guide
1
This User’s Guide does not contain all the 
information about the machine such as how 
to use Printer, Scanner and PC Fax. When 
you are ready to learn detailed information 
about these...

General Information
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1
cIf the language screen appears, click 
your language. The CD-ROM Main 
Menu will appear.
 
Note
If this window does not appear, use 
Windows
® Explorer to run the start.exe 
program from the root directory of the 
Brother CD-ROM.
 
dClick Documentation.
eClick the documentation you want to 
read.
„HTML documents: Software 
User’s Guide in HTML format.
This format is recommended for 
viewing on your computer.
„PDF documents: User’s Guide for 
stand-alone operations and 
Software...

Chapter 1
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Viewing Documentation 
(For Macintosh
®)1
aTurn on your Macintosh®. Insert the 
Brother CD-ROM into your CD-ROM 
drive. The following window will appear.
 
bDouble-click the Documentation icon.
cDouble-click your language folder.
dDouble-click the top.html file to view the 
Software User’s Guide in HTML 
format.
 
eClick the documentation you want to 
read.
„Software User’s Guide
How to find Scanning instructions1
There are several ways you can scan 
documents. You can find the instructions...

General Information
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1
Accessing Brother 
Support 
(For Windows
®)1
You can find all the contacts you will need, 
such as Web support (Brother Solutions 
Center), Customer Service and Brother 
Authorized Service Centers in Brother 
numbers on page i and on the Brother 
CD-ROM.
„Click Brother Support on the main menu. 
The following screen will appear:
 
„To access our web site 
(www.brother.com
), click Brother Home 
Page.
„To view all Brother Numbers, including 
Customer Service numbers for the USA...

Chapter 1
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MFC-290C Control panel overview1
The MFC-250C and MFC-290C have the same control panel keys.
Note
Most of the illustrations in this User’s Guide show the MFC-290C.
 
 
1 Fax and telephone keys:
„Redial/Pause
Redials the last number called. It also inserts a 
pause when programming quick dial numbers.
„Hook
Press before dialing if you want to make 
sure a fax machine will answer, and then 
press Black Start or Color Start. 
Also, press this key after picking up the 
handset of an external...