F Glossary

The document can be placed in the ADF and scanned one page at a time automatically.

Reduces the size of incoming faxes.

Sending a fax without picking up the handset of the external telephone or pressing Hook.

A feature that enables your machine to redial the last fax number after five minutes if the fax did not go through because the line was busy.

Your machine prints a copy of every fax that is received and stored in memory. This is a safety feature so you will not lose messages during a power failure.

As a cost saving feature, all delayed faxes to the same fax number will be sent as one transmission.

Volume setting for the beep when you press a key or make an error.

The ability to send the same fax message to more than one location.

Cancels a programmed print job and clears the machine’s memory.

The special tones (beeps) sent by fax machines during automatic transmission to tell the receiving machine that a fax machine is calling.

Method of coding the information contained in the document. All fax machines must use a minimum standard of Modified Huffman (MH). Your machine is capable of greater compression methods, Modified Read (MR), Modified Modified Read (MMR) and JBIG, if the receiving machine has the same capability.

An error during fax sending or receiving, usually caused by line noise or static.

The ability of one fax unit to communicate with another. Compatibility is assured between ITU-T Groups.

Setting to compensate for dark or light documents, by making faxes or copies of dark documents lighter and light documents darker.

Sends your fax at a specified later time that day.

Your machine can scan outgoing faxes or scheduled jobs into memory at the same time it is sending a fax or receiving or printing an incoming fax.

Detects errors during fax transmission and resends the pages of the fax that had an error.

A telephone on the fax number that is plugged into a separate wall socket.

A TAD (telephone answering device) or telephone that is connected to your machine.

The length of time that the Brother machine pseudo/double-rings (when the Receive Mode setting is Fax/Tel) to notify you to pick up a voice call that it answered.

Enables your machine to respond to CNG tones if you interrupt a fax call by answering it.

Sends a fax received into the memory to another pre-programmed fax number.

Lists information about the last 200 incoming and outgoing faxes. TX means Transmit. RX means Receive.

You can store faxes in the memory.

The signals sent by sending and receiving fax machines while communicating information.

You can receive faxes and telephone calls. Do not use this mode if you are using a telephone answering device (TAD).

Resolution is 203 × 196 dpi. It is used for small print and graphs.

The shades of grey available for copying and faxing photographs.

A combination of One Touch and Speed Dial numbers that are stored on a One Touch key or in a Speed Dial location for Broadcasting.

A printout of the complete Menu table that you can use to program your machine when you do not have the User’s Guide with you.

The pre-programmed time period between automatically printed Fax Journal Reports. You can print the Fax Journal on demand without interrupting the cycle.

The display screen on the machine that shows interactive messages during On-Screen Programming and shows the date and time when the machine is idle.

When you lift the handset of your external telephone or press Hook so you can hear the receiving fax machine answer before you press Start to begin transmission.

Programming mode for changing your machine’s settings.

The bundled Presto! PageManager software application converts an image of text to text you can edit.

Keys on the machine’s control panel where you can store numbers for easy dialling. You can store a second number on each key if you press Shift and the One Touch key together.

Receives faxes into the machine’s memory when the machine is out of paper.

Makes temporary changes to the fax tones to accommodate noise and static on overseas telephone lines.

Allows you to place a 2.8 second delay in the dialling sequence while you are dialling using the dial pad or while you are storing One Touch and Speed Dial numbers. Press Redial/Pause as many times as needed for longer pauses.

The process of a fax machine calling another fax machine to retrieve waiting fax messages.

A form of rotary dialling on a telephone line.

When memory is full, you can send faxes in real time.

You can check which programmed fax jobs are waiting in the memory and cancel the jobs individually.

Your own four-digit code (– – –) that allows you to call and access your machine from a remote location.

Press this code ( 5 1) when you answer a fax call on an extension or external telephone.

The ability to access your machine remotely from a touch tone telephone.

The number of vertical and horizontal lines per inch.

The number of rings before the machine answers in Fax Only and Fax/Tel modes.

Volume setting for the machine’s ring.

The process of sending an electronic image of a paper document into your computer.

An electronic, alphabetical listing of stored One Touch, Speed Dial and Group numbers.

The stored information that appears on the top of faxed pages. It includes the sender’s name and fax number.

You can connect an external TAD to your machine.

A listing of names and numbers stored in One Touch and Speed Dial memory, in numerical order.

You can choose certain options for each fax transmission and copy without changing the default settings.

A form of dialling on the telephone line used for Touch Tone telephones.

The process of sending faxes over the telephone lines from your machine to the receiving fax machine.

A printed report that shows the current settings of the machine.

A listing for each transmission, that shows its date, time and number.