Does not scan pages until it makes connection

This section describes dialing and sending faxes directly using the Numeric buttons.

note:

• A PBX (Private Branch Exchange) is an on-site telephone switchboard. If your machine is connected through a PBX or other telephone switching systems, you have to dial the outside line access number first, and then the number of the party you are calling.
  

Sending a Fax with the Numeric Buttons .

Click here for other useful sending methods.


1. Preparing for sending a fax.(1) Make sure that the power is turned on.

(2) Load a document on the Platen Glass or in the ADF.

important:

• When sending a double-sided document, set the document on the Platen Glass. You cannot scan double-sided documents from the ADF.

(3) Press the FAX button.
The fax standby screen will appear.

(4) Adjust the density (scan contrast) or image quality (fax resolution) as necessary.
See "Adjusting the Sending Quality"

2. Sending the fax.

• When the document was loaded on the Platen Glass:

(1) Use the Numeric buttons to dial the recipient's number.

(2) Press the Color button for color sending, or the Black button for black & white sending.
important:

• Color sending requires that the recipient's fax machine supports color faxing.

(3) Press the OK button.
The machine starts sending the fax.
note: When loading two or more documents

• Load the next page, and press the same button as you pressed in (2) of step 2. Repeat the same procedure to scan all pages of the document, and press the OK button.
  
• When you have sent the first page with the Black button, the following pages will be sent in black and white.

When the document was loaded in the ADF:

(1) Use the Numeric buttons to dial the recipient's number.
(2) Press the Color button for color sending, or the Black button for black & white sending.
The machine scans the document automatically and starts sending the fax.
important:

• Color sending requires that the recipient's fax machine supports color faxing.

note:

• To cancel sending a fax, press the Stop button, and follow the instructions on the LCD.
  
  
• If documents remain in the ADF after pressing the Stop button during scanning, "Close the feeder cover [OK]Eject the document" will appear on the LCD. Press the OK button so that the remaining document is automatically fed out.

Automatic redialing

• When sending a fax and the recipient's line is busy, the machine will redial the number after a specified interval. Auto redial is enabled by default. Auto redial can be enabled or disabled by selecting ON or OFF. Select ON to specify the number of redialing in Redial times and redialing interval in Redial interval.

Redialing the Number Dialed with the Numeric Buttons

1.Prepare for sending a fax.
(1) Make sure that the power is turned on.
(2) Load a document on the Platen Glass or in the ADF.
(3) Press the FAX button.
The fax standby screen will appear.
(4) Adjust the image density (scan contrast) or quality (fax resolution) as necessary.
See "Adjusting the Sending Quality"
2. Select the telephone number recently dialed.
(1) Press the Redial/Pause button.
Most recently dialed fax number using the Numeric buttons will appear.
(2) Use the (-) or (+) button to select the number to redial.

(3) Press the OK button.
The selected number will appear in the fax standby screen.
3. Send the fax.
Press the Color button for color sending, or the Black button for black & white sending.
important:

• Color sending requires that the recipient's fax machine supports color faxing.

Most of these will send a fax without even using the PC. Just connect a phone line, place the document in the proper position, usuallu print side up on newer models, and push the fax button, it should prompt you for the number. Once dialed,, the paper will feed into the scanner portion of the multi, and you will see it on the menu bar saying sending page 1, 2 etc, after if is done sending, it will dial and connect, yu should hear the typical noise a fax makes. then it will say fax sent or end or something similar, that's it, try sending one to a friend to make sure it's working. Now some simpler machines require you to open the scanner portion and lay the paper down in the glass manually, mine does it both ways. In that case just skip the feeding part, and dial wait for it to scan and send.

Hello Frank,

Sending a fax is fairly simple.

1. Make sure you have a telephone line connecting to the LINE jack on the side of the MFC-295CN

2. Check if you have a dial tone by pressing the "hook" button on the machine while the line is free.

3. Place a page face down on the flatbed scanner or in the document feeder on the top of the machine.

*Note: If you are using the document feeder, once the page is placed in, you should see "enter fax #" on the LCD

4. Enter the fax number the same way you would dial a regular phone number.

5. Press "Start"

*Note: If you are using the flatbed option, after the sheet is scanned, you will be asked if you want to scan a second page. For additionnal pages, press 1, to end scanning and start faxing, press 2

6. If the fax goes through properly you will see "completed" on the LCD

You can find the entire user manual by clicking here:
http://www.brother-usa.com/ModelDocuments/Consumer/Users%20Manual/UM_MFC_240C_EN_249.PDF

Or, here are the instructions for sending a fax:

Entering Fax mode 5

To enter fax mode, press (Fax), and
the key will glow green.

The LCD will show the new job number and
the memory available.The number of pages
you can scan into the memory will vary
depending on the data that is printed on them.

Faxing from the ADF 5
a Make sure you are in Fax mode .
b Put the document face down in the ADF.
c Dial the fax number using the dial pad.
d Press Black Start or Color Start.
The machine starts scanning the
document.

Note
• To cancel, press Stop/Exit.
• If the memory is full, the fax will be sent in
real time.

Faxing from the scanner glass5
You can use the scanner glass to fax pages
of a book one at a time. The documents can
be up to letter or A4 size.

You cannot send multiple pages for color
faxes.



Make sure you are in Fax mode .

Load your document on the scanner
glass.

Dial the fax number.

Press Black Start or Color Start.
If you press Black Start, the
machine starts scanning the first
page. Go to step e.

If you press Color Start, the
machine starts sending the
document.

Do one of the following:
To send a single page, press 2 to
choose No. (or press Black Start
again).
To send more than one page, press
1 to choose Yes and go to step f.

Put the next page on the scanner glass.

Press OK.
starts scanning the page.

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Fax machines are sorta like printers, sorta like scanners, and sorta like dial up modems all wrapped into one expensive box.
1. First thing to make sure of is that you are hooked to a phone line. most fax machines have a phone handset that you can make calls from. Call someone and make sure that works. If So, you are able to connect to phone networks, and should have no trouble sending or receiving data. If you have a dead line or no sound, check the line and check the power. (its always the easy stuff that is overlooked, just check it and make sure).
2. If this fax machine has computer interface, (usb port or parallel cable port), see if you can scan with it. Drop a document into the scan area and see if the computer can scan an image from the scanner. If the scanner works, you can scan images into the fax machine to be sent to the fax number. (If your fax machine does not have a scan to computer feature, skip this.)
3. if your fax machine has a print from pc feature, try to print a document to it from your computer. If you can print, then the printer works, and you can receive faxes. (if your fax machine does not have a pc printing feature, skip this)
4. Here is how a typical fax machine works. You place the document or image into the scanner feed area. You press a big button that usually says "fax" and then, a screen pops up saying to dial the number. You dial the number and press SEND. once you press Send, the machine will scan the document, dial the number and sing a little dial up modem song awaiting a response from the receiving machine. the receiving machine acknowledges the fax, and the singing is no longer audible (but it continues because the modem song is actually data transmission/reception). after about 20-60 seconds, the fax completes and the call ends. As for the particular model you have, the functions should be about the same, though the buttons and arrangements may be different. FYI, you can send a fax straight from the PC too, if you have a dial-up fax/modem card.

dial *67 before the fax number

If you sending the fax over the memory, fax can scann doc. while dialing, or in the same time, but if you sending directly (on-hook dial) fax is sending the document while beeing reeded.

You may try to check the phone lines, browse the documents before sending,clean the original document feed rollers,...
if fax sudenly stops and wrinkle the orig. documents there is problem in scanner area

I dont know how we got disconnected but here is the instructions

Adjust the width of the document guides (1)
to fit the actual size of the document.
2 Insert the document (up to 10 pages) FACE
DOWN (2) until a single beep is heard and
the unit grasps the document.
L If the document guides are not adjusted
to fit the document, re-adjust them.
3 If necessary, press {A} or {B} repeatedly to
select the desired resolution.
4 Press {DIGITAL SP-PHONE}.
5 Dial the fax number.
6 When a fax tone is heard:
Press {FAX/START}.
When the other party answers your call:
Ask them to press their start button. When
the fax tone is heard, press {FAX/START


To redial the last number
1. Press {REDIAL/PAUSE}.
2. Press {SET}.
L If the line is busy, the unit will automatically
redial the number up to 2 times.
L To cancel redialing, press {STOP}.
To send more than 10 pages at a time
Insert the first 10 pages of the document. Add
the other pages (up to 10 at a time) before the
last page feeds into the unit.
Pre-dialing a fax number
You can dial the fax number first before inserting
the document. This is convenient if you need to
refer to the document for the other party’s fax
number.
1. Enter the fax number.
2. Insert the document.
3. Press {FAX/START}.
Sending from memory (Quick scan feature)
You can scan the document into memory before
sending it. To use this feature, activate feature
#34 (page 62).
1. Insert the document.
2. Enter the fax number.
3. Press {FAX/START}.
L The document will be fed into the unit and
scanned into memory. The unit will then
transmit the data. If the document exceeds
the memory capacity, transmission will be
canceled and this feature will be turned OFF
automatically. You must transmit the entire
document manually.
L This feature cannot be used if {DIGITAL SPPHONE},
{TALK} or {SP-PHONE} is
pressed.
To stop transmission
Press {STOP}.

• If you are using speed dial to dial the fax number, the HP Officejet
might be dialing too fast or too soon. To solve this problem, try one
of the following:
– Try manually dialing the fax number from the HP Officejet front
panel, or from an attached phone. For information, see send a
fax using monitor dialing on page 43 or send a fax manually
from a telephone on page 43.
– Re-create the speed dial setting and insert some pauses. For
information, see create individual speed-dial entries on
page 56.
• If your telephone line has a PBX system, make sure you are dialing
the number for an outside line before dialing the fax number.
• The receiving fax machine might be having problems. To check this,
try calling the fax number from a telephone and listen for fax tones.
If you cannot hear fax tones, the receiving fax might not be turned
on or connected, or a voice mail service could be interfering with
the recipient’s phone line.
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00095626.pdf

NOTE this option may vary to printer try USING OPTIONS TO SET CHANGES


To resolve the problem, try the steps below. After each step, try to send a fax again.

1. As some fax machines are not capable of receiving color faxes, legal size faxes, or faxes at 200x200 dpi resolution, make sure you are sending an A4 or letter size (not legal size) page at standard resolution:
* Press the Black button for a black-and-white fax. Press the Quality button to check the selected resolution.
2. Make sure the All-In-One has enough memory free when you want to save the scanned documents into memory before sending the fax. Please refer to the following document: Click here to link to the relevant document.
Note: The scanned documents will only be saved in the memory before the whole fax is sent if the Scan Before Dial option is turned on. (This is the factory default.) Up to 50 black-and-white fax pages can be stored in memory at standard resolution when there are no pending faxes in the queue.
3. Turn off the Scan Before Dial option by pressing the following keys on the operator panel:
1. Press the Fax button, then press Options untill u see ADVANCED FAX mode.
2. Press Select.
3. Press Options nine times until SCAN BEFORE DIAL appears on the LCD display.
4. Change the setting from Yes to No using the + (right arrow) button.
5. Press Select.
Note: The Scan Before Dial option controls whether a document is scanned before a call is dialed. This parameter only applies to a mono fax that uses either 200x100 or 200x200 resolution. Higher resolution mono faxes and all color faxes are scanned after the call is dialed and the receiving machine's capabilities are known.
4. Lower the fax transmission speed 9600 bps, as some older fax machines are not capable of receiving a fax at a high speed. To do so:
1. Press the Fax button, then press Options untill u see ADVANCED FAX.
2. Press Select.
3. Press Options untill u see until MAX SEND SPEED appears on the LCD display.
4. Change it to 9600 BPS using the - (left arrow) button.
5. Press Select.
5. Turn off ECM (Error Correction Mode) by pressing the following keys on the operator panel:
1. Press the Fax button, then press untill u see to get to ADVANCED FAX.
2. Press Select.
3. Press untill u see ERROR CORRECTION appears on the LCD display.
4. Change the setting from On to Off using the + (right arrow) button.
5. Press Select.