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Enter Text on Your Brother Machine

  • The characters that are available may differ depending on your country.

DCP-T520W/DCP-T720DW/DCP-T725DW/DCP-T820DW

You may need to enter text on your machine.
  • Entering numbers, letters and symbols
  • Hold down or repeatedly press image or image to select a character from this list:
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789(space)!”#$%&’()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~
  • Press OK when the character or symbol you want is displayed, and then enter the next character.
  • Making corrections
  • If you entered an incorrect number or letter and want to change it, press Enlarge/Reduce or Copy / Scan Options (ID) several times to move the cursor under the incorrect character. Then, press image or image repeatedly to re-enter the correct letter.

MFC-T920DW

When you are setting certain menu selections, such as the Station ID, you may need to enter text into the machine. Most dial pad buttons have three or four letters printed on the buttons. The buttons for 0, # and image do not have printed letters because they are used for special characters.

Press the appropriate dial pad button the number of times shown in this reference table to access the character you want.

Press Button One Time Two Times Three Times Four Times Five Times Six Times Seven Times Eight Times Nine Times
2 A B C a b c 2 A B
3 D E F d e f 3 D E
4 G H I g h i 4 G H
5 J K L j k l 5 J K
6 M N O m n o 6 M N
7 P Q R S p q r s 7
8 T U V t u v 8 T U
9 W X Y Z w x y z 9
  • To move the cursor to the left or right, press image, image, image or image to select image or image, and then press OK.
  • Inserting spaces
  • To enter a space, press image, image, image or image to select image, and then press OK.
  • Making corrections
  • If you entered an incorrect number or letter and want to change it, press image, image, image or image to select image or image. Press OK several times to move the highlight to the incorrect character. Then, press image, image, image or image to select image, and press OK. Re-enter the correct letter.

Special characters and symbols

Press image or # repeatedly until you see the special character or symbol you want.

Press image
image
Press #
image
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