User Manual
Table Of Contents
- USER’S GUIDE MFC-790CW MFC-990CW
- 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
- Voice operations
- Telephone Service for Australia
- Telephone Service for New Zealand
- Telephone Service for Some Countries
- Connecting an external TAD (telephone answering device)
- External and extension telephones
- 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
- 13 Printing photos from a memory card or USB Flash memory drive
- 14 Printing photos from a camera
- 15 Wireless photo printing (MFC-990CW only)
- 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 (MFC-790CW only)
- Machine Information
- Packing and shipping the machine
- C Menu and Features
- D Specifications
- E Glossary
- Index
- brother ARL/ASA/NZ
Troubleshooting and Routine Maintenance
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B
Error animation B
Error animations display step-by-step
instructions when paper gets jammed. You
can read the steps at your own pace by
pressing c to see the next step and d to go
backward. If you do not press a key after
1 minute the animation starts running
automatically again.
Note
You can press d or c to pause the auto-
animation and go back to step-by-step
mode.
Transferring your faxes or
Fax Journal report B
If the LCD shows:
Unable to Clean XX
Unable to Init. XX
Unable to Print XX
Unable to Scan XX
Unable to use Phone XX
We recommend transferring your faxes to
another fax machine or to your PC. (See
Transferring faxes to another fax machine
on page 155 or Transferring faxes to your PC
on page 156.)
You can also transfer the Fax Journal report
to see if there are any faxes you need to
transfer. (See Transferring Fax Journal report
to another fax machine on page 156.)
Note
If there is an error message on the
machine's LCD, after the faxes have been
transferred, disconnect the machine from
the power source for several minutes, and
then reconnect it.
Transferring faxes to another fax
machine
B
If you have not set up your Station ID, you
cannot enter fax transfer mode. (See Enter
personal information (station ID) in the Quick
Setup Guide.)
a Press Stop/Exit to interrupt the error
temporarily.
b Press MENU.
c Press a or b to display Service.
d Press Service.
e Press Data Transfer.
f Press Fax Transfer.
g Do one of the following:
If the LCD shows No Data, there
are no faxes left in the machine's
memory.
Press Stop/Exit.
Enter the fax number to which faxes
will be forwarded.
h Press Mono Start.










