User Manual
Table Of Contents
- USER’S GUIDE MFC-790CW
- 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
- Sending a fax at the end of a conversation
- Out of Memory message
- 6 Receiving a Fax
- 7 Telephone and External devices
- 8 Dialling and storing numbers
- 9 Digital TAD
- 10 Printing Reports
- 11 Polling
- 5 Sending a Fax
- Section III Copy
- Section IV Direct Photo Printing
- Section V Software
- Section VI Appendixes
- A Safety and Legal
- B Troubleshooting and Routine Maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- Error and Maintenance messages
- Routine maintenance
- Replacing the ink cartridges
- Cleaning the outside of the machine
- Cleaning the scanner glass
- Cleaning the machine’s printer platen
- Cleaning the paper pick-up roller
- Cleaning the print head
- Checking the print quality
- Checking the print alignment
- Checking the ink volume
- Uninstalling and installing the handset and handset cradle
- Machine Information
- Packing and shipping the machine
- C Menu and Features
- D Specifications
- E Glossary
- Index
- brother CHN-ENG
Glossary
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ECM (Error Correction Mode)
Detects errors during fax transmission
and resends the pages of the fax that had
an error.
Extension telephone
A telephone using the same line as your
fax but 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 rings (when the Receive Mode
setting is Fax/Tel) to notify you to pick up
a voice call that it answered.
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 Storage
You can store received faxes in 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
Resolution is 203 × 196 dpi. It is used for
small print and graphs.
Greyscale
The shades of grey available for copying,
scanning and faxing photographs.
Group number
A combination of Speed Dial numbers that
are stored 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.
Fax Journal
Lists information about the last
200 incoming and outgoing faxes. TX
means Transmit. RX means Receive.
Innobella™
Innobella™ is a range of genuine
consumables offered by Brother. For best
quality results Brother recommends
Innobella™ Ink and Paper.
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 you can hear the receiving fax
machine answer before you press
Mono Start or Color Start to begin
sending the fax.
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.










