Brother Mfc 6490cw User Manual

Section II
FaxII
Sending a Fax40
Receiving a Fax49
Telephone and External devices64
Dialling and storing numbers75
Printing Reports85
Polling87
 

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Entering Fax mode5
When you want to send a fax, or change fax 
send or receive settings, press the (Fax ) key to illuminate it in blue.
 
The LCD shows: 
Press  aor b to scroll through the  Fax key 
options. Some functions are only available 
when sending monochrome faxes.
„ Fax Resolution  (See page 45.)
„ Contrast  (See page 45.)
„ Glass ScanSize  
(MFC-5890CN: See page 41.) 
(MFC-6490CW: See page 42.)
„ Phone Book  (See page 75.)
„ Outgoing Call  (See page 76.)
„ Caller ID hist.  (See page 77.)...

Sending a Fax41
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Faxing from the scanner glass5
You can use the scanner glass to fax pages 
of a book one at a time. The documents can 
be up to A3 size for MFC-6490CW, and A4 
size for MFC-5890CN.
You cannot send colour faxes with multiple 
pages.
Note
• Since you can only scan one page at a time, it is easier to use the ADF if you are 
sending a multiple page document.
• (MFC-6490CW only) 
You can send colour faxes up to A4 in size.
 
aPress ( Fax).
bLoad your document face down on the 
scanner...

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Setting scanner glass size for 
faxing (MFC-6490CW only)5
To fax a A3, Letter, Legal or Ledger size 
document from the scanner glass, you need 
to change the glass scan size setting. 
aPress ( Fax).
bPress  aor b to choose 
Glass ScanSize .
cPress dor c to choose  A4, A3 , Letter , 
Legal  or Ledger .
Note
You can save the setting you use most 
often by setting it as default. (See  Setting 
your changes as a new default  
on page 47.)
 
Colour fax transmission5
Your machine can send a...

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Broadcasting 
(Monochrome only)
5
Broadcasting is when the same fax message 
is automatically sent to more than one fax 
number. You can include Groups, 
One Touch, Speed Dial numbers and up to 
50 manually dialled numbers in the same 
broadcast. 
After the broadcast is finished, a Broadcast 
Report will be printed.
aPress (Fax).
bLoad your document.
cPress  aor b to choose  Broadcasting .
Press  OK.
dYou can add numbers to the broadcast 
in the following ways:
„ Press  aor b to choose...

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Cancelling a Broadcast in 
progress5
aPress  Menu.
bPress  aor b to choose  Fax.
Press  OK.
cPress  aor b to choose 
Remaining Jobs .
Press  OK.
The LCD will show the fax number being 
dialled and the Broadcast job number.
dPress  OK.
The LCD will ask you the following 
message:
Cancel Job?  
Yes iPress 1
No iPress 2
ePress  1 to cancel the number being 
dialled.
The LCD will then show the Broadcast 
job number.
fPress  OK.
The LCD will ask you the following 
message:
Cancel Job?
Yes iPress...

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Contrast5
If your document is very light or very dark, you 
may want to change the contrast. For most 
documents the factory setting  Auto can be 
used. It automatically chooses the suitable 
contrast for your document. 
Use  Light  when sending a light document. 
Use  Dark  when sending a dark document.
aPress ( Fax).
bPress  aor b to choose  Contrast.
cPress dor c to choose  Auto, Light  or 
Dark . 
Press  OK. 
Note
Even if you choose  Light or Dark , the 
machine will send the fax...

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Dual access 
(Monochrome only)5
You can dial a number and start scanning the 
fax into memory—even when the machine is 
sending from memory, receiving faxes or 
printing PC data. The LCD shows the new job 
number and available memory.
The number of pages you can scan into the 
memory will vary depending on the data that 
is printed on them.
Note
If the  Out of Memory  message appears 
while scanning documents, press 
Stop/Exit  to cancel or  Mono Start to send 
the scanned pages.
 
Real...

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Delayed Batch Transmission 
(Monochrome only)5
Before sending the delayed faxes, your 
machine will help you economize by sorting 
all the faxes in the memory by destination and 
scheduled time. All delayed faxes that are 
scheduled to be sent at the same time to the 
same fax number will be sent as one fax to 
save transmission time.
aPress (
Fax).
bPress  aor b to choose  Batch TX.
cPress dor c to choose  On.
Press  OK.
dPress  Stop/Exit .
Checking and cancelling 
waiting jobs5
You...

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Sending a fax manually5
Manual transmission lets you hear the 
dialling, ringing and fax-receiving tones while 
sending a fax.
aPress ( Fax).
bLoad your document.
cTo listen for a dial tone pick up the 
handset of an external telephone.
dDial the fax number.
eWhen you hear the fax tone, press 
Mono Start  or Colour Start .
If you are using the scanner glass 
press 1 on the machine to send a fax.
fReplace the handset.
Out of Memory message5
If you get an  Out of Memory  message 
while...