User Manual
Table Of Contents
- USER’S GUIDE FAX-1840C/MFC-3240C
- APPROVAL INFORMATION
- Compilation and Publication Notice
- Safety precautions
- Choosing a location
- Quick Reference Guide
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Getting started
- 3 Setup Send
- How to enter Fax mode
- How to dial
- How to Fax (B&W and Colour)
- Basic sending operations
- Advanced sending operations
- Broadcasting (Not available for colour faxes)
- Overseas Mode
- Delayed Fax (Not available for colour faxes)
- Delayed Batch Transmission (Not available for colour faxes)
- Setup for Polled Transmit (Standard) (Not available for colour faxes)
- Setup for Polled Transmit with Secure Code (Not available for colour faxes)
- TX Lock (Key Lock for some countries)
- 4 Setup Receive
- Basic receiving operations
- Choosing the Receive Mode
- Setting the Ring Delay
- Setting the F/T Ring Time (Fax/Tel mode only)
- Fax Detect (MFC-3240C only)
- Fax Detect (FAX-1840C only)
- Printing a reduced incoming fax (Auto Reduction)
- Receiving a fax at the end of a conversation
- Printing a fax from the memory
- Reception into memory (Not available for colour fax reception)
- Polling
- Basic receiving operations
- 5 Quick-Dial numbers and dialling options
- 6 Remote Fax Options (Not available for colour faxes)
- 7 Printing reports
- 8 Making copies
- 9 Important information
- 10 Troubleshooting and routine maintenance
- Appendix A
- Telephone Service for Australia
- Telephone Service for New Zealand
- Telephone Service for Some Countries
- Advanced receiving operations
- Connecting an external device to your machine
- Appendix B
- Glossary
- Specifications
- Index
- Remote Retrieval Access card
- brother ARL/ASA/NZ
G - 3 GLOSSARY
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 Resolution is 203 x 196 dpi. It is used for small print
and graphs.
Gray scale The shades of gray 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 the machine (FAX-1840C
only) or external telephone so you can hear the receiving fax
machine answer before you press
Mono Start
or
Colour Start
to begin transmission.
Menu mode Programming mode for changing your machine’s
settings.
OCR (optical character recognition) (MFC-3240C only) The
bundled ScanSoft
®
OmniPage
®
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.










