Brother MFC-6800 - Manual (Page 208)

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Distinctive Ring A service purchased from the telephone company that provides another phone
number on an existing phone line. The Brother MFC uses the new number to simulate a
dedicated fax line.
drum unit A printing device for your fax machine.
Dual Access Your MFC can scan outgoing faxes or scheduled jobs into memory at the same time
it is sending a fax or receiving or printing an incoming fax.
Easy Receive Enables your MFC to respond to CNG tones if you interrupt a fax call by
answering it.
ECM (Error Correction Mode) Detects errors during fax transmission and resends the page(s)
that had an error.
Electronic Cover Page A preprogrammed cover page that is transmitted from the MFC’s
memory, eliminating the need for making up cover pages manually.
extension phone A telephone on the fax number that is plugged into a separate wall jack.
external phone A TAD (telephone answering device) or telephone that is plugged into the EXT
jack of your MFC.
Fax Activity Report Lists information about the last 50 incoming and outgoing faxes. TX means
Transmit. RX means Receive.
Fax Forwarding Sends a fax received in memory to another preprogrammed fax number.
Fax Storage You can print stored faxes later, or retrieve them from another location using Fax
Forwarding, Paging, or Remote Retrieval functions.
fax tones The signals sent by sending and receiving fax machines while communicating
information.
Fine mode Resolution is 196
× 203 dpi. It is used for small print and graphs.
gray scale The shades of gray available for copying and faxing photographs.
Group number A combination of Speed Dial numbers that are stored on a Speed Dial location
for Broadcasting.
Interval The preprogrammed time period between automatically printed Fax Activity Reports.
You can print Fax Activity Reports on demand without interrupting this cycle.
LCD (liquid crystal display) The display screen on the MFC that shows interactive messages
during On-Screen Programming and defaults to the date and time when the machine is idle.
manual fax When you lift the handset of the external phone so you can hear the receiving fax
machine answer before you press Fax Start to begin transmisson.
Menu mode The programming mode for changing the settings of your MFC.