User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Quick Setup Guide MFC-7840W
- Symbols used in this guide
- Table of Contents
- Getting Started
- STEP 1 Setting Up the Machine
- STEP 2 Installing the Driver & Software
- Supplied CD-ROM ‘MFL-Pro Suite’
- Windows®
- For USB Interface Cable Users (For Windows® 2000 Professional/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition/Windows Vista®)
- For Wired Network Interface Users (For Windows® 2000 Professional/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition/Windows Vista®)
- For Wireless Network Interface Users (For Windows® 2000 Professional/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition/Windows Vista®) in infrastructure mode
- Connecting your wireless machine and wireless network together and installing the printer driver in infrastructure mode
- Using the Setup Wizard from the control panel LAN menu for wireless network configuration
- Using the SecureEasySetup™, Wi-Fi Protected Setup™ or AOSS™ software to configure your machine for a wireless network (one-push method)
- Macintosh®
- For USB Interface Cable Users
- For Wired Network Interface Users
- For Wireless Network Interface Users (For Mac OS® X 10.2.4 or greater) in infrastructure mode
- Connecting your wireless machine and wireless network together and installing the printer driver in infrastructure mode
- Using the Setup Wizard from the control panel LAN menu for wireless network configuration (Infrastructure Mode)
- Using the SecureEasySetup™, Wi-Fi Protected Setup™ or AOSS™ software to configure your machine for a wireless network (one push-mode)
- For Network Users
- Consumables and Options
- brother UK/IRE/SAF
Setting Up the Machine
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6 Tone and pulse dialling
mode
Your machine comes set for Tone dialling service. If
you have Pulse dialling service (rotary), you need to
change the dialling mode.
1 Press Menu.
2 Press 0.
3 Press 4.
4 Press or to select Pulse (or Tone).
Press OK.
5 Press Stop/Exit.
7 Selecting a receive mode
There are four possible receive modes: Fax Only,
Fax/Tel, Manual and External TAD. Choose the
Receive Mode which best suits your needs.
1 Press Menu.
2 Press 0.
3 Press 1.
4 Press or to select the mode.
Press OK.
5 Press Stop/Exit.
For more details, see Receiving a fax in
Chapter 6 of the User’s Guide.
Do you want to use the telephone features of your
machine (if available) or an external telephone or
external telephone answering device connected on the
same line as the machine?
Your machine
automatically answers
every call as a fax.
Your machine controls
the line and
automatically answers
every call. If the call is
not a fax, the phone will
ring for you to pick up
the call.
Your external telephone
answering device (TAD)
automatically answers
every call. Voice
messages are stored
on the external TAD.
Fax messages are
automatically printed.
You control the phone
line and must answer
every call yourself.
Do you want the machine to
answer fax and telephone calls
automatically?
Manual
Fax Only
Fax/Tel
External TAD
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Are you using the voice message
function of an external telephone
answering device?










