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Sending Faxes
Difficulty
Suggestions
Cannot send a fax.
Check all line cord connections. Make sure the telephone line cord is plugged into
the telephone wall socket and the LINE socket inside the machine.
Print the Transmission Verification Report and check for an error. (See Advanced
User’s Guide:
Reports
.)
Ask the other party to check that the receiving machine has paper.
Poor fax send quality.
Try changing your resolution to
Fine
or
S.Fine
. Make a copy to check your
machine's scanner operation. If the copy quality is poor, clean the scanner. (See
Transmission Verification Report
shows
RESULT
:
ERROR
.
There is probably temporary noise or static on the line. Try sending the fax again.
If you send a PC FAX message and see
RESULT
:
ERROR
on the Transmission
Verification Report, your machine may be out of memory. To gain extra memory,
you can print fax messages from the machine’s memory. (See Advanced User’s
Guide:
Printing a fax from the memory
.) If the problem continues, ask the
telephone company to check your telephone line.
If you often get transmission errors due to possible interference on the telephone
line, try changing the machine's Compatibility setting to
Basic(for VoIP)
.
Telephone line interference / VoIP
Vertical black lines when sending.
Black vertical lines on faxes you send are typically caused by dirt or correction fluid
on the glass strip. Clean the glass strip. (See
Handling Incoming Calls
Difficulty
Suggestions
The machine “hears” a voice as a
CNG Tone.
If Fax Detect is set to
On
, your machine is more sensitive to sounds. It may
mistakenly interpret certain voices or music on the line as a fax machine calling
and respond with fax-receiving tones. Deactivate the machine by pressing
Stop/Exit
. Try avoiding this problem by turning Fax Detect to
Off
.
Sending a fax call to the machine.
If you answered on an extension or external telephone, press your Remote
Activation Code (the factory default is
l
5 1
). If you answered on an external
telephone, press
Mono Start
, and press
2
to receive the fax. When your machine
answers, hang up.
Custom features on a single line.
If you have Call Waiting, Call Waiting/Caller ID, Caller ID, Voice Mail, an
answering machine, an alarm system or other custom feature on a single
telephone line with your machine, it may create a problem sending or receiving
faxes.
For example:
If you subscribe to Call Waiting or another custom service and its
signal comes through the line while your machine is sending or receiving a fax, the
signal can temporarily interrupt the faxes. Brother's ECM (Error Correction Mode)
feature should help overcome this problem. This condition is related to the
telephone system industry and is common to all devices that send and receive
information on a single, shared line with custom features. If avoiding a slight
interruption is crucial to your business, we recommend using a separate
telephone line with no custom features.
