FAX-2440C
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FAQs & Troubleshooting |
You can call your Brother machine from any touch-tone telephone or fax machine, then use the Remote Access Code and remote commands to retrieve your faxes.
Before you can use your Brother machine's Remote Retrieval feature, you must program your own Remote Access Code. The factory default code is the inactive code ---*.
Using your Remote Access Code
Remote Fax Commands
Follow the commands below to access feature when you are away from your Brother machine. When you call your Brother machine and enter your Remote Access Code, the machine will produce two short beeps and you must enter a Remote Fax Command.
Remote commands | Operation details | |||
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91 Playing Voice Messages | After one long beep, the machine plays the ICM. | |||
1 Repeat or Skip Backward | Press 1 while listening to an ICM to repeat it. If you press 1 before a message, you will hear the previous message. | |||
2 Skip Forward | While playing the ICM, you can skip to the next message. | |||
9 STOP Playing | Stop playing the ICM. | |||
93 Erase all ICM | If you hear one long beep, the erase is accepted. If you hear three short beeps, you cannot erase because all voice messages have note been played, or there are no voice message to erase. NOTE: This code erases all recorded messages, not one at a time. | |||
94 Play and Record OGM in Memory | ||||
1 Play | 1 Msg Ctr OGM | The machine plays the chosen OGM. You can stop playing OGMs by pressing 9. | ||
2 F/T OGM | ||||
2 Record | 1 Msg Ctr OGM | After one long beep, you can record the chosen OGM. You will hear the message played once. You can stop recording the message by pressing 9. | ||
2 F/T OGM | ||||
95 Change the Fax Forwarding, Paging or Fax Storage settings | ||||
1 OFF | You can choose Off after you have retrieved or erased all your messages. | |||
2 Fax Forwarding | If you hear one long beep, the change has been accepted. If you hear three short beeps, you cannot change it because something has not been set up (for example, perhaps a Fax Forwarding or paging number had not been registered). You can register your Fax Forwarding number by entering 4. (See Changing your Fax Forwarding number). Once you have registered the number, Fax Forwarding will work. You can choose Off after you have retrieved or erased all your messages. | |||
3 Paging | ||||
4 Fax Forwarding number | ||||
6 Fax Storage | ||||
96 Retrieve a fax | ||||
2 Retrieve all faxes | Enter the number of a remote fax machine to receive stored fax message(s). (See To remotely retrieve faxes). | |||
3 Erase faxes from the memory | If you hear one long beep, fax messages have been erased from the memory. | |||
97 Check the receiving status | You can check whether your machine has received any fax or voice messages. If yes, you will hear one long beep. If no, you will hear three short beeps. | |||
1 Fax | ||||
2 Voice | ||||
98 Change the Receive Mode | If you hear one long beep, your change has been accepted. | |||
1 Msg Ctr | ||||
2 Fax/Tel | ||||
3 Fax Only | ||||
90 Exit | Pressing 90 will allow you to exit Remote Retrieval. Wait for the long beep, then replace the handset. |
You can change the default setting of your Fax Forwarding number from another touch tone telephone or fax machine by following these steps: