User Manual
Table Of Contents
- USER’S GUIDEMFC-5890CN MFC-6490CW
- Approval Information and Compilation and Publication Notice
- Table of Contents
- Section I General
- 1 General Information
- 2 Loading paper and documents
- 3 General setup
- 4 Security features
- Section II Fax
- 5 Sending a Fax
- Entering Fax mode
- Broadcasting (Monochrome only)
- Additional sending operations
- Sending faxes using multiple settings
- Contrast
- Changing fax resolution
- Dual access (Monochrome only)
- Real time transmission
- Overseas Mode
- Delayed Faxing (Monochrome only)
- Delayed Batch Transmission (Monochrome only)
- Checking and cancelling waiting jobs
- Setting your changes as a new default
- Restoring all settings to the factory settings
- Sending a fax manually
- Out of Memory message
- 6 Receiving a Fax
- 7 Telephone and External devices
- 8 Dialling and storing numbers
- 9 Printing Reports
- 10 Polling
- 5 Sending a Fax
- Section III Copy
- 11 Making copies
- How to copy
- Copy settings
- Changing copy speed and quality
- Enlarging or reducing the image copied
- Making N in 1 copies or a poster (Page Layout)
- Sorting copies using the ADF
- Adjusting Brightness and Contrast
- Paper Options
- Skew Adjustment (MFC-6490CW only)
- Book Copy
- Watermark Copy
- Setting your changes as a new default
- Restoring all settings to the factory settings
- ‘Out of Memory’ message
- 11 Making copies
- Section IV Direct Photo Printing
- Section V Software
- Section VI Appendixes
- A Safety and Legal
- B Troubleshooting and Routine Maintenance
- C Menu and Features
- D Specifications
- E Glossary
- Index
- brother CHN-ENG
Receiving a Fax
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Remote Fax commands 6
Follow the commands below to access features when you are away from the machine. When you
call the machine and enter your remote access code (3 digits followed by ), the system will give
two short beeps and you must enter a remote command.
Remote commands Operation details
95 Change the Fax Forwarding or Fax
Storage settings
1 OFF You can choose Off after you have retrieved or erased all
your messages.
2 Fax Forwarding One long beep means the change is accepted. If you hear
three short beeps, the change was not accepted because
something has not been set up (for example, a Fax
Forwarding number has not been registered). You can
register your Fax Forwarding number by entering 4. (See
Changing your Fax Forwarding number on page 64.) Once
you have registered the number, Fax Forwarding will work.
4 Fax Forwarding number
6 Fax Storage
96 Retrieve a fax
2 Retrieve all faxes Enter the number of a remote fax machine to receive stored
fax messages. (See Retrieving fax messages on page 64.)
3 Erase faxes from the memory If you hear one long beep, fax messages have been erased
from the memory.
97 Check the receiving status
1 Fax You can check whether your machine has received any
faxes. If yes, you will hear one long beep. If no, you will hear
three short beeps.
98 Change the Receive Mode
1 External TAD If you hear one long beep, your change has been accepted.
2 Fax/Tel
3 Fax Only
90 Exit Pressing 9 0 allows you to exit remote retrieval. Wait for the
long beep, then replace the handset.










