Brother MFC-7360 Manuel D’Utilisation

Telephone services and external devices

• You must pay for your telephone 

company's Distinctive Ring service before 
you program the machine to work with it.

• Please call your telephone company for 

availability and rates.

 

Your telephone company’s Distinctive Ring 
service allows you to have more than one 
number on the same telephone line. If you 
need more than one telephone number, it 
is cheaper than paying for an extra line. 
Each telephone number has its own 
Distinctive Ring pattern, so you will know 
which telephone number is ringing. This is 
one way you can have a separate telephone 
number for your machine.

Please call your telephone company for 
availability and rates.

 

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.

1

long-long

 

2

short-long-short

 

3

short-short-long

 

4

very long 
(normal pattern)