20 Most Recent Brother MFC 240C All-In-One InkJet Printer - Page 6 Questions & Answers

4F message indicates that the printhead is gone, you will need to replace it to make it work again. Before you replace it though, you may want to try this, see if it will remove the error message: Access the internal maintenance mode by pressing the Menu/Set button, then press * 2 8 6 4 within 2 seconds. This should put you in the maintenance mode menu. Enter 80, then scroll down with the arrow down (round) key. You'll find an entry listed as purge count. If number is over 6000, enter 2 7 8 3. This will reset the purge count value. Then the printer will restart, hopefully without the annoying cannot clean message.

Go to menu option and choose the option fax and set the parameter like auto receive or manual set the ring auto answer mode after certain ring. If it is in auto receiving mode it will receive the fax after the ring which you set. Make sure the phone wire which you insert in fax machine getting proper dial tone and getting out going calling facility.Have a nice day and do not forget to rate please...!

Might have a virus or need to install the software

Clean the print head in "maintenance mode" ! *Plug the power chord while holding menu to get in maintenance and press 76. 4. black start, then wait until finishing!

mY MFC-240C PRINTER IS NOT PRINTING WITH A MESSAGE " UNABLE TO PRINT SEE TROUBLESHOOTING

It should be in the maintenance. You can download the manual from this link. Hope this helps.http://www.retrevo.com/search/v2/jsp/downloadPage.jsp?doc=59690c85ad2ae47919040e5414887fc6&modelid=1071216&q=Brother+MFC-240C

Start > Accessories > Command Prompt OR Start > Run > type "cmd.exe" (without quotes) and click OK In the black window that opens, type "sfc /scannow" (without quotes) and press Enter. Have your Windows XP CD handy. If you don't have a WinXP CD, see: http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html

Wow, something similar just happened to me the other day, my black ink ran out & when I replaced it, it just wouldn't print, I kept trying to print things and it sounded like it was printing but then it would just shoot out a blank page of paper (I was trying to print BLACK). So, I went to the Brother website for troubleshooting tips and it said to make sure I had the ink cartridges installed properly so I took the black cartridge back out (it WAS installed correctly, but I was willing to try anything at this point), so I took it out, gave it a blow, like how you would blow on the old Nintendo game catridges when they did not work-I'm not sure if this did anything at all but it's what I did) and then I put it back in). The machine asked if had just replaced black I said "Yes", then it did another "cleaning", as it does when you replace any cartridge. Then I went in the menu to have it print out a "test page" (the instructions for this were in the troubleshooting tips on the website), the test page printed out with NOT all the little black squares as IT SHOULD BE so when it asked me if the test page was ok, I said "NO", then it did ANOTHER CLEANING and I did another test page, this time it worked ok, then I was able to print.
So, bottom line is, maybe take the ink out, make sure you installed it correctly, put it back in, print a test page, if the test page does nto come out right, then tell it it is no good by selecting "NO", then it will do another cleaning and then maybe it will work, if not, then check for more troubleshooting tips on their website, good luck.

You need to download the driver from Brother website. Please click here to download the driver. Once you on that page Follow the steps from selecting the Operating system to selecting your language then hit the search button. Then it will give you the driver to install this printerTo check the Operating system of your computer you may follow the steps here.

For step by step instructions on how to fix this please click here.