User Guide
Table Of Contents
- USER’S GUIDE MFC-8480DN/MFC-8680DN/MFC-8690DW/MFC-8890DW
- Brother numbers
- Ordering accessories and supplies
- Notice - Disclaimer of Warranties (USA and Canada)
- Compilation and Publication Notice
- Brother™ One-Year Limited Warranty and Replacement Service (USA Only)
- BROTHER MULTIFUNCTION CENTER / FAX MACHINELIMITED WARRANTY (Canada only)
- Table of Contents
- Section I: General
- 1 General information
- Using the documentation
- Accessing the Software User’s Guide and Network User’s Guide
- Viewing documentation
- Viewing documentation (Windows®)
- How to find scanning instructions
- Software User’s Guide:
- ScanSoft™ PaperPort™ 11SE with OCR How-to-Guides:
- How to find Network setup instructions (MFC-8690DW and MFC-8890DW)
- Viewing documentation (Macintosh)
- How to find scanning instructions
- Software User’s Guide:
- Presto! PageManager User’s Guide:
- How to find Network setup instructions (MFC-8690DW and MFC-8890DW)
- Viewing documentation
- Accessing Brother support (Windows®)
- Control panel overview
- 2 Loading paper and documents
- 3 General Setup
- 4 Security features
- 1 General information
- Section II: Fax
- 5 Sending a fax
- How to fax
- Broadcasting
- Additional sending operations
- 6 Receiving a fax
- 7 Telephone services and external devices
- 8 Dialing and storing numbers
- 9 Remote Fax Options
- 10 Polling
- 11 Printing reports
- 5 Sending a fax
- Section III: Copy
- Section IV:Direct printing
- Section V:Software
- Section VI: Appendixes
- A Safety and legal
- B Options
- C Troubleshooting and routine maintenance
- D Menu and features
- E Specifications
- F Glossary
- Index
- brother USA/CAN

Sending a fax
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Composing your own comments 5
You can set up two comments of your own.
a Make sure you are in Fax mode .
b Press Menu, 2, 2, 8.
22.Setup Send
8.Coverpage Msg
a 5.
b 6.
Select ab or OK
c Press a or b to choose 5. or 6. to store
your own comment.
Press OK.
d Enter your own comment using the dial
pad.
Press OK.
Use the chart on page 193 for help entering
characters.
Send a cover page for the next fax 5
If you want to send a cover page only for the
next fax, your machine will ask you to enter
the number of pages you are sending so it
can be printed on the cover page.
a Make sure you are in Fax mode .
b Load your document.
c Press Menu, 2, 2, 7.
22.Setup Send
7.Coverpg Setup
a Next Fax:On
b Next Fax:Off
Select ab or OK
d Press a or b to choose Next Fax:On
(or Next Fax:Off).
Press OK.
e Press a or b to choose a comment.
Press OK.
f Enter two digits to show the number of
pages you are sending.
Press OK.
For example, enter 0, 2 for 2 pages or 0,
0 to leave the number of pages blank. If
you make a mistake, press d or
Clear/Back to back up and re-enter the
number of pages.
Send a cover page for all faxes 5
You can set the machine to send a cover
page whenever you send a fax.
a Make sure you are in Fax mode .
b Press Menu, 2, 2, 7.
22.Setup Send
7.Coverpg Setup
a Next Fax:On
b Next Fax:Off
Select ab or OK
c Press a or b to choose On (or Off).
Press OK.
d Press a or b to choose a comment.
Press OK.
Using a printed cover page 5
If you want to use a printed cover page that
you can write on, you can print the sample
page and attach it to your fax.
a Make sure you are in Fax mode .
b Press Menu, 2, 2, 7.
22.Setup Send
7.Coverpg Setup
a Next Fax:On
b Next Fax:Off
Select ab or OK
c Press a or b to choose Print Sample.
Press OK.
d Press Start.
e After the machine print a copy of your
cover page, press Stop/Exit.










