Dual Access; Real Time Transmission - Brother MFC-8500 Owner's Manual

Dual Access

You can scan up to 50 documents into the fax memory, even while the machine
is receiving or sending another fax (from memory). You can set temporary
settings for each fax you're scanning, except Timer and Polling.
If you try to scan and store a 51st fax, the machine will send it immediately,
without storing it in memory.
If you get a OUT OF MEMORY
fax, press Stop/Exit to cancel scanning. If you get a
message while scanning in a subsequent page, you'll have the option to press
Fax Start to transmit the pages scanned so far, or to press Stop/Exit to cancel
the operation.
1
Place the original face down in the ADF.
2
Enter the fax number.
3
Press Fax Start. As the machine scans the original, the LCD shows the job
number (#XXX) of the fax and how much memory is available. Then the
machine starts dialing. You can immediately repeat Steps 1 to 4 for the next fax.
Your machine normally operates in Dual Access mode. However, you can
override Dual Access by using Real Time Transmission.
The number of documents you can scan into memory varies with the data they
contain.

Real Time Transmission

When you are sending a fax, the machine will scan originals into memory before
sending. Then, as soon as the phone line is free, the machine will start dialing and
sending the fax. If memory becomes full, the machine will send the document in real
REAL TIME TX
time (even if
Sometimes you may want to send an important document immediately, without
waiting for memory transmission. You can set
1
Place the original face down in the ADF.
2
Press Menu, 2, 2, 6.
3
To change the default setting, and then
press or
then press Set. Go to Step 5—OR—For
the next fax transmission only, press
and then press Set.
4
For the next fax only, press
5
Press 1 if you want to select additional settings. The LCD returns to the
menu—OR—Press 2 if you are finished choosing settings, and then go to Step 6.
6
Enter fax number and then press Fax Start.
message while scanning the first page of a
is set to
to select ON (or OFF) and
or
OUT OF MEMORY
OFF
).
REAL TIME TX
6.REAL TIME TX
or to select
(or OFF), and then press Set.
to select ON
S E T U P S E N D
ON
to .
NEXT FAX ONLY,
SETUP SEND
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