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Troubleshooting – Brother FAX-150 User Manual

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TROUBLESHOOTING

If you are having trouble with the image quality in TRANSMIT or RECEIVE modes, try the unit in

the COPY mode. If this test gives you a good reproduction, the problem is not with your unit
but with the other unit or the teiephone iines.

if this GUIDE does not help you in solving a problem with your unit, please call our service at:
1-800-284-4FAX.

TRANSMITTING

SYMPTOM

POSSIBLE CAUSE

ACTION

No lamp indications on

cover. Power switch is
turned on but power
lamp does not light.

Is the power cord plugged in?

Plug in power cord.

Faint drawings or

characters are not
reproduced when send-
ing or copying.

Contrast switch set wrong.

Change Contrast switch on the

front of the unit to “L” (Light
setting).

Document jam

Document jammed in transmitting

section.

1. Turn the power off.

2. Pull up on the control panel to

open it up.

3. Remove the jammed document.
4. Close cover making sure that

you hear it click into place.

5. Do not retransmit this document

but make a copy of it first.

Error indicator Is lit

Communications error has occurred -

this is usually caused by a bad phone
line.

1. Redial and try transmission

again.

2. If you get failure again, call the

distant location and verify if
their unit Is functioning and that

it is a Group 3 fax terminal. If it
is not working, have them call

their service. If it Is not a Group
3, then you cannot transmit to
them at all.