User Guide

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SETUP RECEIVE

Setup Receive

Basic Receiving Operations

Choosing the Receive Mode

There are three different receive modes for your MFC. You may choose the

mode that best suits your needs by pressing Receive Mode repeatedly until the

LCD shows the setting you want to use.

LCD How it works When to use it

FAX ONLY

(automatic receive)

The MFC automatically

answers every call as a fax.

For dedicated fax lines.

EXT.TEL/TAD

(External telephone/

External Telephone

Answering Device)

If an external telephone is

connected to the EXT. jack,

you control the phone line

and must answer every call

yourself.

If an external TAD

(telephone answering

device) is connected to the

EXT. jack, the TAD

automatically answers

every call. Voice messages

are stored in the external

TAD. Fax messages are

printed.

Use this mode if you

receive very few faxes.

Use this mode if you have

an external answering

machine on your phone

line.

MANUAL

(manual receive)

You control the phone line

and must answer every call

yourself.

Use this mode when you are

using a computer modem on

the same line or if you receive

very few fax messages.