Fax Preview (Monochrome only)

How to preview a received fax

You can view received faxes on the LCD by pressing the Fax Preview key. When the machine is in Ready mode, a popup message will appear on the LCD to alert you of new faxes.

Setting Fax Preview

1	Press Fax Preview.
2	Press 1 to choose Yes. LCD asks you again to make sure that faxes will not be printed. Press 1 to choose OK.

Note

•	When you receive colour fax, the machine will treat the data as colour fax or monochrome fax depend on your setting for Memory Receive. (See Setting Receiving Priority.)
•	When Fax Preview is turned On, a backup copy of received faxes will not be printed, even if you have set Backup Print On.

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Using Fax Preview

When you receive a fax, you will see the pop-up message on the LCD. (For example: New Fax(es): 02)

Press Fax Preview.

You can see the new fax list.

Note

•	(MFC-6490CW) If you receive a fax containing multiple paper sizes (for example, a page of A4 data and a page of A3 data), the machine may create and store a file for each paper size. The LCD may show that more than one fax job has been received.
•	You can also see your old fax list by pressing . Press # to go back to your new fax list.

Press

to choose the fax you want to see.

Press OK.

Note

•	If your fax is large there may be a delay before it is displayed on the LCD.
•	The LCD will show the current page number and total pages of the fax message. When your fax message is over 99 pages the total number of pages will be shown as “XX“.

Press Stop/Exit.

When a fax is open the control panel keys will perform the operations shown below.

Key

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