F Glossary

This is a comprehensive list of features and terms that appear in Brother manuals. Availability of these features depends on the model you purchased.
ADF (automatic document feeder)
The document can be placed in the ADF and scanned one page at a time automatically.
Auto Reduction
Reduces the size of incoming faxes.
Automatic fax transmission
Sending a fax without picking up the handset of the external telephone or pressing Hook.
Automatic Redial
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.
Backup Print
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.
Batch Transmission
As a cost saving feature, all delayed faxes to the same fax number will be sent as one transmission.
Beeper Volume
Volume setting for the beep when you press a key or make an error.
Broadcasting
The ability to send the same fax message to more than one location.
Cancel Job
Cancels a programmed print job and clears the machine’s memory.
CNG tones
The special tones (beeps) sent by fax machines during automatic transmission to tell the receiving machine that a fax machine is calling.
Coding method
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), JBIG and JPEG, if the receiving machine has the same capability.
Communication error (or Comm. Error)
An error during fax sending or receiving, usually caused by line noise or static.
Compatibility group
The ability of one fax unit to communicate with another. Compatibility is assured between ITU-T Groups.
Contrast
Setting to compensate for dark or light documents, by making faxes or copies of dark documents lighter and light documents darker.
Delayed Fax
Sends your fax at a specified later time that day.
Dual Access
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.
ECM (Error Correction Mode)
Detects errors during fax transmission and resends the pages of the fax that had an error.
Extension telephone
A telephone on the fax number that is plugged into a separate wall socket.
External telephone
A TAD (telephone answering device) or telephone that is connected to your machine.
F/T Ring Time
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.
FaxAbility
A subscriber service purchased from the telephone company that provides another telephone number on an existing telephone line. The Brother fax machine uses the new number to simulate a dedicated fax line.
Fax Detect
Enables your machine to respond to CNG tones if you interrupt a fax call by answering it.
Fax Forwarding
Sends a fax received into the memory to another pre-programmed fax number.
Fax Journal
Lists information about the last 200 incoming and outgoing faxes. TX means Transmit. RX means Receive.
Fax Receive Code
Press this code (Bsymbol.tone 51) when you answer a fax call on an extension or external telephone.
Fax Storage
You can store faxes in the memory.
Fax tones
The signals sent by sending and receiving fax machines while communicating information.
Fax/Tel
You can receive faxes and telephone calls. Do not use this mode if you are using a telephone answering device (TAD).
Fine resolution
Fine resolution is 203 × 196 dpi. It is used for small print and graphs.
Greyscale
The shades of grey available for copying and faxing photographs.
Group number
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.
Help list
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.
Journal Period
The pre-programmed time period between automatically printed Fax Journal Reports. You can print the Fax Journal on demand without interrupting the cycle.
LCD (liquid crystal display)
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.
Manual fax
When you lift the handset of your external telephone or press Hook so you can hear the receiving fax machine answer before you press Mono Start or Color Start to begin transmission.
Menu mode
Programming mode for changing your machine’s settings.
OCR (optical character recognition)
The bundled Presto!® PageManager® software application converts an image of text to text you can edit.
One-Touch
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.
Out of Paper Reception
Receives faxes into the machine’s memory when the machine is out of paper.
Overseas Mode
Makes temporary changes to the fax tones to accommodate noise and static on overseas telephone lines.
Pause
Allows you to place a 2.8 second delay in the dialling sequence stored on One-Touch keys and Speed-Dial numbers. Press Redial/Pause as many times as needed for longer pauses.
PictBridge
Allows you to print photos directly from your PictBridge compatible digital camera at high resolution for photo quality printing.
Polling
The process of a fax machine calling another fax machine to retrieve waiting fax messages.
Pulse
A form of rotary dialling on a telephone line.
Quick Dial List
A listing of names and numbers stored in One-Touch and Speed-Dial memory, in numerical order.
Real Time Transmission
When memory is full, you can send faxes in real time.
Remaining jobs
You can check which programmed fax jobs are waiting in the memory and cancel the jobs individually.
Remote Access Code
Your own four-digit code (– – –Bsymbol.tone) that allows you to call and access your machine from a remote location.
Remote Retrieval Access
The ability to access your machine remotely from a touch tone telephone.
Resolution
The number of vertical and horizontal lines per inch.
Ring Delay
The number of rings before the machine answers in Fax Only and Fax/Tel modes.
Ring Volume
Volume setting for the machine’s ring.
Scanning
The process of sending an electronic image of a paper document into your computer.
Search
An electronic, alphabetical listing of stored One-Touch, Speed-Dial and Group numbers.
Speed-Dial
A pre-programmed number for easy dialling. You must hold down Shift as you press Search/Speed Dial, then enter the three-digit Speed-Dial location and press Mono Start or Color Start to begin the dialling process.
Station ID
The stored information that appears on the top of faxed pages. It includes the sender’s name and fax number.
TAD (telephone answering device)
You can connect an external TAD to your machine.
Temporary settings
You can select certain options for each fax transmission and copy without changing the default settings.
Tone
A form of dialling on the telephone line used for Touch Tone telephones.
Transmission
The process of sending faxes over the telephone lines from your machine to the receiving fax machine.
User Settings List
A printed report that shows the current settings of the machine.
Xmit Report (Transmission Verification Report)
A listing for each transmission, that shows its date, time and number.