Sending Faxes; Handling Incoming Calls - Brother MFC-J245 Basic User's Manual

Sending Faxes

Difficulty
Cannot send a fax.
Poor fax send quality.
Transmission Verification Report
shows RESULT:ERROR.
Vertical black lines when sending.

Handling Incoming Calls

Difficulty
The machine "hears" a voice as a
CNG Tone.
Sending a fax call to the machine.
Custom features on a single line.
Suggestions
Check all line cord connections. Make sure the telephone line cord is plugged into
the telephone wall socket and the LINE socket inside the machine.
Print the Transmission Verification Report and check for an error. (See Advanced
User's Guide: Reports.)
Ask the other party to check that the receiving machine has paper.
Try changing your resolution to Fine or S.Fine. Make a copy to check your
machine's scanner operation. If the copy quality is poor, clean the scanner. (See
Cleaning the scanner glass on page 58.)
There is probably temporary noise or static on the line. Try sending the fax again.
If you send a PC FAX message and see RESULT:ERROR on the Transmission
Verification Report, your machine may be out of memory. To gain extra memory,
you can print fax messages from the machine's memory. (See Advanced User's
Guide: Printing a fax from the memory.) If the problem continues, ask the
telephone company to check your telephone line.
If you often get transmission errors due to possible interference on the telephone
line, try changing the machine's Compatibility setting to Basic(for VoIP).
(See Telephone line interference / VoIP on page 91.)
Black vertical lines on faxes you send are typically caused by dirt or correction fluid
on the glass strip. Clean the glass strip. (See Cleaning the scanner glass
on page 58.)
Suggestions
If Fax Detect is set to On, your machine is more sensitive to sounds. It may
mistakenly interpret certain voices or music on the line as a fax machine calling
and respond with fax-receiving tones. Deactivate the machine by pressing
Stop/Exit. Try avoiding this problem by turning Fax Detect to Off.
(See Fax Detect on page 28.)
If you answered on an extension or external telephone, press your Remote
Activation Code (the factory default is l 5 1 (l 9 1 for New Zealand)). If you
answered on an external telephone, press Mono Start or Colour Start, and press
2 to receive the fax. When your machine answers, hang up.
If you have Call Waiting, Call Waiting/Caller ID, Caller ID, Voice Mail, an
answering machine, an alarm system or other custom feature on a single
telephone line with your machine, it may create a problem sending or receiving
faxes.
For example: If you subscribe to Call Waiting or another custom service and its
signal comes through the line while your machine is sending or receiving a fax, the
signal can temporarily interrupt the faxes. Brother's ECM (Error Correction Mode)
feature should help overcome this problem. This condition is related to the
telephone system industry and is common to all devices that send and receive
information on a single, shared line with custom features. If avoiding a slight
interruption is crucial to your business, we recommend using a separate
telephone line with no custom features.
Troubleshooting
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