Brother MFC-6550MC User Manuals

Table of Contents

• CONTROL PANEL KEYS

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• TELEPHONE AREA

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• ONE-TOUCH, PRINTER AND COPY AREA

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• LCD & USER SETUP AREA

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• HELP KEY

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• User-friendly Programming

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• (OSP)

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• Alternating Displays for On-screen Programming (OSP)

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• Function Selection Table

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• Using the Help Key

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• How to Print a Help List

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• How to Enter Text in Function Mode

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• Marks in Function Mode

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• How to Set the Sleep Time

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• FUNCTION SETTINGS

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• Setting the Dialing Mode (Tone/Pulse)

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• Setting the Date and Time

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• Setting the Station ID

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• Setting the Beeper Volume Level

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• Storing the One-Touch Dial Numbers

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• Storing the Speed-Dial Numbers

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• Speed-Dial Numbers (During Step 6 on Page 3-6, 8)

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• • Memory Storage/Temporary Battery Back Up

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• Setting Up Number Groups for Broadcasting

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• • Types of Numbers

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• • Chain Dialing

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• Beeper

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• Chain Dialing

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• Date and Time

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• Tone/Pulse

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• 4. USING THE UNIT AS A TELEPHONE

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• Manual Dialing

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• One-Touch Dialing

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• Speed Dialing

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• • Using Hold, Pause, # with the Telephone

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• • On Hook Dialing

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• Searching the Telephone Index

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• On Hook Dial

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• Manual Dial

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• Telephone Index

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• FAXES

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• A) DOCUMENT BASICS

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• The Size of Your Documents

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• How to Insert the Document

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• The Auto Document Feeder (ADF)

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• Getting Ready to Send a Fax

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• Setting the Resolution

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• Setting the Contrast

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• B) BASIC FAX TRANSMISSIONS

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• • Sending a Fax

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• • Talking to the Other Party When Sending a Fax

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• Sending a Fax Automatically

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• Sending a Fax Manually

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• Automatic and Manual Redialing

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• • Optional Settings When You Send a Fax Manually

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• • Printing Page Headers

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• C) ADVANCED FAX TRANSMISSIONS

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• (Memory Transmission)

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• Send a Fax by Using Super Quick-Scan

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• Setting the Daily Timer (for Delayed Transmissions)

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• Delayed Transmission

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• Broadcasting

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• Sending by Multiple Transmissions

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• Interrupting the Timer and Polled Job

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• Canceling a Job

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• D) FAX TRANSMISSION OPTIONS

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• Setting the Overseas Mode

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• Transmission

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• • Selecting a Comment for the Cover Page

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• Customizing Your Cover Page Comment

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• Printing a Sample Cover Page

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• To Always Send a Cover Page

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• • Sending an Automatic Cover Page

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• Sending a Fax When the Cover Page Is ON

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• Sending a Cover Page Temporarily

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• • Using the Call Reservation Function

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• Printing the Call Back Message

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• ECM (Error Correction Mode)

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• Error Retransmission

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• Next-FAX Reservation

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• ADF

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• E C M

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• Canceling

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• Contrast

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• Fine

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• Daily Timer

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• Interrupting

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• Overseas Mode

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• Super Dark Mode

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• Super Light Mode

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• 6. RECEIVING FAXES AND OTHER CALLS

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• A) BASIC SETUP TO RECEIVE FAXES

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• Selecting an Answer Mode

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• Manual Reception (Manual Mode)

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• Automatic Fax Only Reception (Fax Mode)

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• Setting the Ring Delay

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• The F/T Switch (Fax/Telephone Mode)

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• (Only for MFC 6550MC/7550MC)

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• Setting the F/T Ring Time

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• Smoothing

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• Setting the Size of the Recording Paper

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• Auto Reduction

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• Using Fixed Reduction Ratios

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• • Selecting the Ratios of Fixed Reduction

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• • Reception into Memory (Out of Paper Reception)

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• Settign the Print Density

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• Toner Save Function

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• Speaker Volume

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• Ring Volume

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• B) REMOTE ACTIVATION

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• What is Remote Activation?

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• • Connecting an External or Extension Telephone

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• Using Remote Codes

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• Using the Activation Code

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• Using the Deactivation Code

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• Making the Remote Codes Easier to Use

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• Troubleshooting

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• Changing and Registering Remote Codes

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• (TAD)

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• How to Use an External TAD with the MFC

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• • Connecting an External TAD to the MFC

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• Flowchart of External TAD Reception

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• Hookup

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• Recording the TAD’s Outgoing Message (OGM)

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• D) DISTINCTIVE RINGING

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• Distinctive Ringing

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• What Is Distinctive Ringing?

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• Function?

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• Can My MFC Use Distinctive Ringing?

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• Can I Change the Setting Later?

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• How Will the MFC Treat All Other Numbers?

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• on the Line: (Only for MFC 6550MC/7550MC)

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• Other Number(s) on the Line:

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• Flowchart of an Incoming Call

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• Which Phone Number Should I Register?

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• What Must I Do to Set Up Distinctive Ringing?

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• Setting the Distinctive Ringing Function

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• E) CALLER ID

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• What is Caller ID?

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• Advantages of Caller ID

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• How Does Caller ID Work?

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• Telephone Rings

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• • Clearing a Caller ID Stored in Memory

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• Printing the Caller ID List

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• F) RECEIVE PASSWORD

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• Turning Receive Password On or OFF

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• External Telephone

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• Extension Telephone

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• Smoothing

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• Speaker Volume

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• Toner Save

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• Ring Volume

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• 7. P O L L I N G

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• • What Is Polling?

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• • How Does It Work?

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• • When to Use Polling

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• Polling Another Fax Machine (Calling)

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• Setting Up Polled Waiting (Being Called)

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• Delayed Polling

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• Setting Up Polled Waiting with Super Quick-Scan

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• Sequential Polling

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• Setting the Fax Storage

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• Paging/Fax Forwarding

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• Setting Up Paging (Registering the Paging Number)

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• Forwarding Number)

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• What Is Remote Control Access?

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• Setting the Remote Access Code

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• How to Use Remote Access and Control Codes

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• Remote Fax Retrieval

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• • When to Enter the Remote Access Code

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• Remote Control Commands

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• Remotely

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• Changing the Fax Forwarding Number Remotely

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• Printing a Fax Message

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• Fax Storage

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• (Only for MFC 6550MC/7550MC)

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• A) GETTING STARTED

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• What Is the Message Center Mode?

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• What Do I Want the Message Center to Do?

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• Flowchart of an Incoming Call

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• Turning on the Message Center with 3 Basic Steps

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• Setting the Message Storage

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• (MSG CTR OGM)

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• Activating the Message Center Mode

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• B) GETTING YOUR MESSAGES

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• How Will I Know Messages Have Been Received?

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• Memo (or Voice Alarm)

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• Backup Printing Option

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• Printing a Fax Message

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• • Erasing and Printing FAX Messages

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• (See Remote Retrieval)

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• C) ERASING YOUR MESSAGES

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• Recorded Memo (or Voice Alarm)

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• One by One Erasing

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• All in One Erasing

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• D) CHANGING THE OUTGOING MESSAGE

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• Playing Your Outgoing Message (OGM)

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• Erasing Your Outgoing Message (OGM)

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• E) MORE FEATURES

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• Setting the Toll Saver

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• (ICM MAX. TIME)

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• Playing OGM (Outgoing Message) ON/OFF Setting

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• Recording a Conversation

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• Recording a Memo

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• F) PAGING/FAX FORWARDING

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• What Is Paging/Fax Forwarding?

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• Forwarding Number)

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• • Memory Backup of Message Center Memory

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• Changing the Fax Forwarding Number Remotely

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• G) REMOTE RETRIEVAL

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• What Is Remote Control Access?

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• Setting the Remote Access Code

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• Using the Remote Access Code

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• Remote Control Commands

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• Remotely

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• Changing the Fax Forwarding Number Remotely

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• H) VOICE ALARM

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• Voice Alarm

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• Setting the Voice Alarm

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• • Recording Voice Messages for the Voice Alarm

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• Time Arrives…

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• One by One, Erasing All at Once

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• Remote Control of the Voice Alarm

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• M e m o

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• Toll Saver

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• 10. USING THE MFC AS A PRINTER

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• Acceptable Paper

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• Control Panel Keys

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• Simultaneous Operation

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• On/OffLine Key

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• FF/Cont Key

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• Test/Reset Key

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• Print Priority Key

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• • Windows® Printing

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• (Only for MFC 6550MC/7550MC)

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• (Only for MFC 6550MC/7550MC)

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• • Bidirectional Parallel Interface

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• • Enhanced Memory Management

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• Multipurpose Sheet Feeder

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• Manual Feed Slot

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• When you load one sheet of paper manually:

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• • Paper Tray

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• (Only for MFC 6550MC/7550MC)

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• (Only for MFC 6550MC/7550MC)

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• (Only for MFC 6550MC/7550MC)

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• (Only for MFC 6550MC/7550MC)

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• Duplex

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• Emulation

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• Factory Reset

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• FF/CONT Key

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• FontListPrint

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• Hex Dump Mode

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• OffLine

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• Label

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• OnLine

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• Organizer Sheet

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• Manual Duplex

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• Paper Specifications

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• Printable Area

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• Simultaneous

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• Print Configuration

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• TestPrint

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• Reset

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• Transparency

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• 11. PRINTING REPORTS AND LISTS

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• How to Print Reports and Lists

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• Activity Report Interval

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• Printing the All Dial List

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• Transmission Verification (Xmit) Report

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• Memory Status List

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• 12.HOW TO USE THE COPY FUNCTION

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• Making a Single Copy

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• Making Multiple Copies

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• Stacking Multiple Copies

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• while Making Copies

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• Reducing and Enlarging Copies

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• Copying a Photograph

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• U N I T

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• Toner Empty Indicator

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• Replacing the Toner Cartridge

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• Replacing the Drum Unit

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• M A I N T E N A N C E

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• Regular Maintenance

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• Cleaning the Drum Unit

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• Packing and Shipping the Machine

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• Paper Jams

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• Fixing a Document Jam

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• Fixing a Recording Paper Jam

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• ACCESSORIES

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• (Only for MFC 6550MC/7550MC)

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• (Only for MFC 6550MC/7550MC)

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• Memory Board

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• Optional Memory for the Printer & Fax Operations

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• Installing the Optional Memory Board

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• DIP Switch

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• P R O C E D U R E S

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• Error Messages

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• Other Problems

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• Q & A

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• Accessory Orders

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• Cover Open

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• LineError

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• Memory Full Error

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• Print Overrun

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• PrintQuality

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• 17.SPECIFICATIONS

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• PARALLEL INTERFACE SPECIFICATIONS

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• RESIDENT FONTS (Only for 6550MC/7550MC)

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• (Only for 6550MC/7550MC)

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• Environment

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• Character Set

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• Font

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• Parallel Interface

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• Symbol Set

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• Residen Font

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• I N F O R M A T I O N

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• (Applies only to 120V model)

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• Important Safety Instructions

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• 19.I N D E X

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