Brother FAX-2840 Manual De Usuario

Telephone services and external devices 

The Brother machine has a Distinctive Ring 
feature that allows you to use your machine to 
take full advantage of the telephone 
company’s Distinctive Ring service. The new 
telephone number on your line can just 
receive faxes.

You must pay for your telephone 
company’s Distinctive Ring service before 
you program the machine to work with it.

 

If you have Voice Mail on the telephone line 
that you will install your new machine on, 
there is a strong possibility that Voice Mail 
and the machine will conflict with each other 
while receiving incoming calls. However, the 
Distinctive Ring feature allows you to use 
more than one number on your line, so 
both Voice Mail and the machine can work 
together without any problems. If each one 
has a separate telephone number, neither will 
interfere with the other’s operations.

If you decide to get the Distinctive Ring 
service from the telephone company, you will 
need to follow the directions below to 
‘register’ the new Distinctive Ring pattern 
they give you. This is so your machine can 
recognize its incoming calls.

You can change or cancel the Distinctive 
Ring pattern at any time. You can switch it 
off temporarily, and turn it back on later. 
When you get a new fax number, make 
sure you reset this feature.

 

You can only register one Distinctive Ring 
pattern with the machine. Some ring patterns 
cannot be registered. The ring patterns below 
are supported by your Brother machine. 
Register the one your telephone company 
gives you.

• Ring Pattern #1 is often called Short-Short 

and is the most commonly used.

• If the ring pattern you received is not on 

this chart, please call your telephone 
company and ask for one that is 
shown.

 

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The machine will only answer calls to its 
registered number.

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The first two rings are silent on the 
machine. This is because the fax must 
<<listen>> to the ring pattern (to compare 
it to the pattern that was ‘registered’). 
(Other telephones on the same line will 
ring.)

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If you program the machine properly, it will 
recognize the registered ring pattern of the 
‘fax number’ within 2 ring patterns and 
then answer with a fax tone. When the 
‘voice number’ is called, the machine will 
not answer.

1

short-short or 
long-long

 

2

short-long-short

 

3

short-short-long

 

4

very long 
(normal pattern)