Brother MFC J6910DW User Manual

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Retrieving fax messages4
You can call your machine from any 
touch-tone telephone and have your fax 
messages sent to another machine. Before 
you use this feature, you have to turn on Fax 
Storage.
aDial your fax number.
bWhen your machine answers, enter 
your remote access code (3 digits 
followed by  ) at once. If you hear one 
long beep, you have messages.
cWhen you hear two short beeps, 
press962.
dWait for a long beep, and then use the 
dial pad to enter the number of the...

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Additional receiving 
operations
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Printing a reduced incoming 
fax4
If you choose On, the machine automatically 
reduces each page of an incoming fax to fit on 
one page of Letter, Legal, Ledger, A4 or A3 
size paper. The machine calculates the 
reduction ratio by using the page size of the 
fax and your Paper Size setting. (See  Paper 
Size and Type in  chapter 2 of the Basic 
User’s Guide .)
aPress MENU.
bPress  aor b to display  Fax.
cPress Fax.
dPress  aor b to display 
Setup Receive ....

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Polling overview4
Polling lets you set up your machine so other 
people can receive faxes from you, but they 
pay for the call. It also lets you call somebody 
else’s fax machine and receive a fax from it, 
so you pay for the call. The polling feature 
needs to be set up on both machines for this 
to work. Not all fax machines support polling.
Polling receive4
Polling receive lets you call another fax 
machine to receive a fax.
Setup to receive polling4
aPress (FAX ).
bPress dor c to...

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Canceling a Sequential Polling Job4
aPress  Stop/Exit.
bDo one of the following:
 To cancel the entire sequential 
polling job, press 
Entire Seq. Poll . Go to stepc.
 To cancel the current job, press the 
button that displays the number 
being dialed. Go to step d.
 To exit without canceling, press 
Stop/Exit. 
cWhen the LCD asks if you want to 
cancel the entire sequential polling job, 
do one of the following:
 Press  Yes to confirm.
 To exit without canceling, press  No 
or...

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Voice operations5
Voice calls can be made either with an 
external telephone by dialing manually or by 
using Quick Dial numbers.
Tone or Pulse (Canada only)5
If you have a Pulse dialing service, but need 
to send tone signals (for example, for 
telephone banking), follow the instructions 
below:
aPick up the handset of an external 
telephone or press Hook.
bPress  # on the machine’s control panel. 
Any digits dialed after this will send tone 
signals.
When you hang up, the machine will return to...

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Setting up your area code (USA only)5
When returning calls from the Caller ID 
history your machine will automatically dial 
“1” plus the area code for all calls. If your local 
dialing plan requires that the “1” not be used 
for calls within your area code, enter your 
area code in this setting. With the area code 
setting, calls returned from the Caller ID 
history to numbers  within your area code will 
be dialed using 10 digits (area code + 7-digit 
number). If your dialing plan does not...

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Converting telephone wall outlets5
There are three ways to convert to an RJ11 
jack. The first two ways may require help from 
the telephone company. You can change the 
wall outlets from one RJ14 jack to two RJ11 
jacks. Or, you can have an RJ11 wall outlet 
installed and slave or jump one of the 
telephone numbers to it.
The third way is the easiest: Buy a triplex 
adapter. You can plug a triplex adapter into 
an RJ14 outlet. It separates the wires into two 
separate...

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Additional dialing 
operations
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Outgoing Call5
The last 30 numbers you sent a fax to will be 
stored in the outgoing call history. You can 
choose one of these numbers to fax to, add to 
One Touch or Speed Dial, or delete from the 
history.
aPress  Redial/Pause .
You can also press 
(Call History ).
bPress the Outgoing Call  tab.
cPress the number you want.
dDo one of the following:
 To send a fax, press Send a fax .
 If you want to store the number, 
press  More and then press 
Add to...

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Note
• (USA only) If you redial from the Caller ID history outside your area code, you must 
set up your AREA CODE in advance. 
(See  Setting up your area code (USA 
only)  on page 30.)
• You can print the Caller ID List. (See  How to print a report  on page 40.) 
 
Dialing access codes and 
credit card numbers5
Sometimes, you may want to choose from 
several long distance carriers when you send 
a fax. Rates may vary depending on the time 
and destination. To take...

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Additional ways to 
store numbers
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Storing One Touch numbers 
from Outgoing Calls5
You can store One Touch numbers from the 
Outgoing Call history. 
aPress  Redial/Pause .
You can also choose by pressing 
(Call History ).
bPress Outgoing Call  tab.
cPress the number you want to store.
dPress More.
ePress  Add to One Touch Dial .
fTo choose where the number will be 
stored, do one of the following:
 To accept the displayed next 
available One Touch location, press 
OK.
 To enter a...