User Manual
Table Of Contents
- USER'S GUIDE MFC-8440 MFC-8840D
- APPROVAL INFORMATION
- Compilation and Publication Notice
- "EC"Declararion of Conformity
- Safety precautions
- Choosing a location
- Quick Reference Guide
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Paper
- 3 On-screen programming
- 4 Getting started
- Initial Setup
- General Setup
- Setting the Mode Timer
- Setting the Paper Type
- Setting the Paper Size
- Setting the Ring Volume
- Setting the Beeper Volume
- Setting the Speaker Volume
- Turning on Automatic Daylight Savings Time
- Toner Save
- Sleep Time
- Turning off the Scanner Lamp
- Power Save
- Setting the Tray Use for Copy mode
- Setting the Tray Use for Fax mode
- Setting the LCD Contrast
- Initial Setup depending on Your Country
- 5 Setup Receive
- 6 Setup Send
- How to Fax
- Basic sending operations
- Advanced sending operations
- 7 Auto Dial numbers and dialling options
- 8 Remote Fax Options
- 9 Printing reports
- 10 Making copies
- 11 Using the MFC as a printer
- 12 Printer driver settings
- 13 How to scan using Windows®
- Scanning a document
- Scanning a document (For Windows® XP only)
- Using the scan key (For USB or Parallel interface cable users)
- Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® and OmniPage® OCR
- 14 Using the Brother Control Center
- 15 Using the Windows®-Based Brother SmartUI Control Center
- Brother SmartUI Control Center
- Brother Control Center features
- Hardware Section: Changing the Scan to button configuration
- Software Section
- Scan to File
- Scan to E-mail
- Scan to OCR (Word Processing program)
- Scan to Graphics application (example: Microsoft Paint)
- Fax setting (PC-Fax using the Brother Fax Driver)
- Custom: User-defined buttons
- 16 Using MFC Remote Setup
- 17 Using Brother PC-FAX software
- PC-FAX sending
- Speed-Dial setup
- The Address Book
- Setting up a Member in the Address Book
- Setting up a Group for Broadcasting
- Editing Member information
- Deleting a Member or Group
- Exporting the Address Book
- Importing to the Address Book
- Setting up a Cover Page
- You can enter information in each field
- Sending a file as a PC-FAX using the Facsimile style
- Sending a file as a PC-FAX using the Simple style
- Setting up PC-FAX receiving (Windows® 98/98SE/Me/2000 Professional and Windows NT® WS 4.0 only)
- Receiving a fax into the PC (Windows® XP only)
- 18 Using your MFC with a Macintosh®
- Setting up your USB-equipped Apple® Macintosh®
- Using the Brother printer driver with your Apple® Macintosh® (Mac OS® 8.6 - 9.2)
- Using the Brother Printer Driver with Your Apple® Macintosh® (Mac OS® X)
- Using the PS driver with your Apple® Macintosh®
- Sending a fax from your Macintosh® application
- Using the Brother TWAIN scanner driver with your Macintosh®
- Using Presto!® PageManager®
- MFC Remote Setup (Mac OS® X)
- 19 Network Scanning
- 20 Brother Network PC-FAX software
- 21 Important information
- 22 Troubleshooting and routine maintenance
- 23 Optional accessories
- Glossary
- Specifications
- Index
- Remote Retrieval Access card
- brother UK/IRE/SAF/PAN NORDIC
GLOSSARY G - 2
Cover Page Prints a page at the other party’s fax machine that
contains the sender and recipient’s name and fax number,
number of pages and comment. You can generate an electronic
cover page at the other end with pre-programmed information
from memory or you can print a sample cover page to fax with
your document.
Cover Page Message The comment that is on the Cover Page.
This is a programmable feature.
Deactivation Code (Fax/Tel mode) When the MFC answers a
voice call, it pseudo/double-ring. You can pick up at an extension
phone by pressing this code (
#51
).
Delayed Fax Sends your fax at a later time that day.
Drum Unit A printing device for the MFC.
Dual Access Your MFC can scan outgoing faxes or scheduled jobs
into memory at the same time it is sending a fax or receiving or
printing an incoming fax.
ECM (Error Correction Mode) Detects errors during fax
transmission and resends the pages of the fax that had an error.
Extension phone A telephone on the fax number that is plugged
into a separate wall socket.
External phone A TAD (telephone answering device) or telephone
that is plugged into the correct socket on the MFC.
F/T Ring Time The length of time that the Brother MFC 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 MFC 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
preprogrammed fax number.
Fax Storage You can print stored faxes later, or retrieve them from
another location using Fax Forwarding, or Remote Retrieval
operations.
Fax tones The signals sent by sending and receiving fax machines
while communicating information.










