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
G - 3 GLOSSARY
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.
Gray scale The shades of gray available for copying and faxing
photographs.
Group number A combination of One-Touch, Speed-Dial numbers
that are stored as a Speed-Dial number for Broadcasting.
Help list A printout of the complete Menu that you can use to
program your MFC when you do not have the User’s Guide with
you.
Journal Lists information about the last 200 incoming and outgoing
faxes. TX means Transmit. RX means Receive.
Journal Period The preprogrammed time period between
automatically printed Journal Reports. You can print Journal on
demand without interrupting this cycle.
LCD (liquid crystal display) The display screen on the MFC that
shows interactive messages during On-Screen Programming and
shows the date and time when the MFC is idle.
Manual fax When you lift the handset of your external telephone or
press
Tel/R
so you can hear the receiving fax machine answer
before you press Start to begin transmission.
Menu mode Programming mode for changing your MFC’s settings.
MFL-Pro Suite Turns your MFC into a printer and a scanner and
enables PC faxing using the MFC.
OCR (optical character recognition) The bundled ScanSoft
®
OmniPage
®
software application converts an image of text to text
you can edit.
One-Touch Keys on the MFC control panel where you can store
numbers for easy dialling. You can store a second number on
each key if you press
Shift
and the One-Touch Key together.
Out of Paper Reception Receives faxes into the MFC’s memory
when the machine is out of paper.
Overseas Mode Makes temporary changes to the fax tones to
accommodate noise and static on overseas phone lines.