Muratec MFX-1500E - Manual (Page 29)

1.17
Getting started
Guidelines
Page sizes
While you’ll probably send letter- and legal-sized documents most of the time, it’s
possible to fax a piece of paper as small as a notepad sheet or one nearly three feet
long.
The acceptable dimensions (width
× length) are:
Automatic document feeder ( ADF )
S INGLE - SHEET M ULTIPLE - SHEET
Maximum:12.0
″ ×
35.4
″
Maximum:11.7
″ ×
16.5
″
Minimum: 4.7 ″ × 3.9 ″ Minimum: 5.8 ″ × 4.1 ″
Flatbed scanner ( FBS )
Maximum:10.1 ″ × 14.3 ″
Things not to put in your fax
To avoid paper jams and damage to your machine, don’t insert:
• Folded, curled, torn, wrinkled or very thin pages
• Documents with staples, glue, tape, paper clips or still-wet correction fluid
• “Sticky notes” (or documents with “sticky notes” attached)
• Cardboard, newspaper or fabric
• Pages with duplicating carbon on either side
• Credit cards or any small, thick items
Resolution, grayscale and contrast
Reviewing resolution and grayscale:
• Normal resolution (“ NORM ” on the control panel) is suitable for most typed
documents and simple drawings.
• Fine resolution (“ FINE ” on the control panel) is ideal for maps, moderately compli-
cated drawings, floorplans or handwritten documents.
• Superfine resolution (“ S - FINE ” on the control panel, “S Fine” on the LCD )
reproduces the detail of extremely complicated drawings or line art.
• Grayscale mode (“ HALFTONE ” on the control panel; “Gray” on the LCD ) captures
shades in photos and drawings.
Note: If you send a fax in superfine, certain fax models (especially older, non-
Muratec models) receive it only in fine mode. However, you can send a fax in
grayscale mode to virtually any fax machine currently in use.
To change the resolution setting, press RESOLUTION repeatedly. As
noted above, if neither the FINE , S - FINE nor HALFTONE LED (light-
emitting diode; in this case, a small green light) is glowing, your fax
is set for normal resolution. Otherwise, a glowing
LED indicates the
fax is using the setting named by that LED . For example, in the
drawing (left), the machine is set for FINE resolution.
Contrast
Setting the contrast allows you to compensate for any excessive lightness or dark-
ness, as the case may be, of document pages you are sending or copying.
To change the contrast setting:
1 Press CONTRAST on the control panel. The display, or LCD (liquid crystal dis-
play), indicates the current contrast setting.
2 To adjust the contrast setting, press , or CONTRAST .
To light up an overly dark document, press .
To darken an overly weak document, press .
HALFTONE
RESOLUTION
S-FINE
FINE
Sending faxes