Telephone services

Your machine supports the Caller ID and Distinctive Ring subscriber telephone services that some telephone companies offer.

Features like Voice Mail, Call Waiting, Call Waiting/Caller ID, RingMaster, answering services, alarm systems or other custom features on one phone line may affect the way your machine works. If you have Voice Mail on your phone line, please read the following carefully.

Distinctive Ring

Brother uses the term ‘Distinctive Ring’ but different telephone companies have other names for this service such as SmartRing, RingMaster, Teen-Ring, Indent-a-Call or Indent-a-Ring.

What does your telephone company's ‘Distinctive Ring’ do?

Your telephone company's Distinctive Ring service allows you to have more than one number on the same phone line. If you need more than one phone number, it is cheaper than paying for an extra line. Each phone number has its own distinctive ring pattern, so you will know which phone number is ringing. This is one way you can have a separate phone number for your machine.

Note

Please call your telephone company for availability and rates.

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What does Brother's ‘Distinctive Ring’ do?

The Brother machine has a Distinctive Ring feature that allows you to use your machine to take full advantage of the telephone company's Distinctive Ring service. The new phone number on your line can just receive faxes.

Note

You must pay for your telephone company's Distinctive Ring service before you program the machine to work with it.

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Do you have Voice Mail?

If you have Voice Mail on the phone line that you will install your new machine on, there is a strong possibility that Voice Mail and the machine will conflict with each other while receiving incoming calls. However, the Distinctive Ring feature allows you to use more than one number on your line, so both Voice Mail and the machine can work together without any problems. If each one has a separate phone number, neither will interfere with the other's operations.

If you decide to get the Distinctive Ring service from the telephone company, you will need to follow the directions on next page to ‘register’ the new Distinctive Ring pattern they give you. This is so your machine can recognize its incoming calls.

Note

You can change or cancel the Distinctive Ring pattern at any time. You can switch it off temporarily, and turn it back on later. When you get a new fax number, make sure you reset this feature.

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Before you choose the ring pattern to register

You can only register one Distinctive Ring pattern with the machine. Some ring patterns cannot be registered. The ring patterns below are supported by your Brother machine. Register the one your telephone company gives you.

Ring Pattern	Rings
1	long-long
2	short-long-short
3	short-short-long
4	very long (normal pattern)

Note

If the ring pattern you received is not on this chart, please call your telephone company and ask for one that is shown.

•	The machine will only answer calls to its registered number.
•	The first two rings are silent on the machine. This is because the fax must ‘listen’ to the ring pattern (to compare it to the pattern that was ‘registered’). (Other telephones on the same line will ring.)
•	If you program the machine properly, it will recognize the registered ring pattern of the ‘fax number’ within 2 ring patterns and then answer with a fax tone. When the ‘voice number’ is called, the machine will not answer.

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Registering the Distinctive Ring pattern

Very Important!

After you have set the Distinctive Ring feature to on, the receive mode is set to Manual automatically. You cannot change the receive mode to another mode while the Distinctive Ring is set to on.

Press Menu, 2, 0, 3.

0.Miscellaneous

3.Distinctive

Press

to choose Set.

Press OK.

Press

to choose the stored ring pattern you want to use.

Press OK.

(You hear each pattern as you scroll through the four patterns. Make sure you choose the pattern that the telephone company gave you.)

Press Stop/Exit.

Distinctive Ring is now set to on.

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Turning off Distinctive Ring

1	Press Menu, 2, 0, 3.
2	Press or to choose Off. Press OK.
3	Press Stop/Exit.

Note

If you turn off Distinctive Ring, the machine will stay in Manual receive mode. You will need to set the Receive Mode again. (See Choosing the Receive.)

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