E Glossary

Documents 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 an external phone.

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.

(Black and white faxes only) As a cost saving feature, all delayed faxes to the same fax number can be sent as one transmission.

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

Changing the Brightness makes the whole image lighter or darker.

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

A service purchased from the telephone company that lets you see the number (or name) of the party calling you.

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 JPEG, if the receiving machine has the same capability.

Adjusts the colour in the image for better print quality by improving sharpness, white balance and colour density.

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 time later.

A subscriber service purchased from the telephone company that gives you another phone number on an existing phone line. The Brother machine uses the new number to simulate a dedicated fax line.

Your machine can scan outgoing faxes or scheduled jobs into memory at the same time it is sending a fax from memory 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 using the same line as your fax but 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 rings (when the Receive Mode setting is Fax/Tel) to notify you to pick up a voice call that it answered.

A subscriber service purchased from the telephone company that provides another phone number on an existing phone line. The Brother fax machine uses the new number to simulate a dedicated fax line.

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.

Press this code ( 5 1 ( 9 1 for New Zealand)) when you answer a fax call on an extension or external phone.

You can store received faxes in 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, scanning and faxing photographs.

A combination of Speed-Dial numbers that are stored 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.

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

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.

Depending on your model, you can lift the handset, cordless handset, or handset of the external telephone or you can press Hook or Speaker Phone to hear the receiving fax machine answer before you press Mono Start or Colour Start to begin sending.

Programming mode for changing your machine's settings.

The bundled ScanSoft^® PaperPort^® SE with OCR or Presto!^® PageManager^® software application converts an image of text to text you can edit.

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 phone lines.

Allows you to place a 3.5 second delay in the dialling sequence stored on Speed-Dial numbers. Press Redial/Pause as many times as needed for longer pauses.

Allows you to print digital photos from your digital camera at high resolution for photo quality printing.

A resolution setting that uses varying shades of grey for the best representation of photographs.

Allows you to print photos directly from your digital camera at high resolution for photo quality printing.

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

A form of rotary dialling on a telephone line.

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

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

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

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

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

The number of vertical and horizontal lines per inch. See: Standard, Fine, Super Fine and Photo.

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.

You can scan a black and white or colour document into a Memory Card. Black and white images can be in TIFF or PDF file format and colour images can be in PDF or JPEG file format.

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

A pre-programmed number for easy dialling. You must press Search/Speed Dial, the two digit code, and Mono Start or Colour Start to start the dialling process.

203 × 97 dpi. It is used for regular size text and quickest transmission.

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

392 × 203 dpi. Best for very small print and line art.

You can connect an external TAD to your machine.

When the machine answers a voice call, it pseudo/double-rings. You can pick up at an extension phone by pressing this code (# 5 1).

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 phone lines from your machine to the receiving fax machine.

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

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