MFC 465 CN - says FAX in DR Mode...What is that?

The fax machine may be in secure receiving mode. The following is from the User's Manual section on Faxing. downloadcenter samsung com

Receiving in secure receiving mode

You may need to prevent your received faxes from being accessed by unauthorized people. You can turn on secure receiving mode to restrict printing of received faxes when the machine is unattended. In secure receiving mode, all incoming faxes go into memory. When the mode is deactivated, any stored faxes are printed.

Activating secure receiving mode

1. Press (Fax) on the control panel.
   

2. Press Menu until Advanced Fax appear.
   

3. Press the left/right arrow until Secure Receive appear and press OK.
   

4. Press the left/right arrow until On appear and press OK.
   

5. Enter a four-digit password you want to use and press OK.
   

   You can activate secure receiving mode without setting a password, but cannot protect your faxes.
   

6. Re-enter the password to confirm it and press OK.
   

7. Press Stop/Clear to return to ready mode.
   

When a fax is received in secure receiving mode, your machine stores it in memory and shows Secure Receive to let you know that there is a fax received.
Printing received faxes

1. Access the Secure Receive menu by following steps 1 through 3 in "Activating secure receiving mode."
   

2. Press the left/right arrow until Print appear and press OK.
   

3. Enter the four-digit password and press OK.
   

   The machine prints all of the faxes stored in memory.
   

Deactivating secure receiving mode

1. Access the Secure Receive menu by following steps 1 through 3 in "Activating secure receiving mode."
   

2. Press the left/right arrow until Off appear and press OK.
   

3. Enter the four-digit password and press OK.
   

   The mode is deactivated and the machine prints all faxes stored in memory.
   

4. Press Stop/Clear to return to ready mode."
   

DR stands for distigntive ring.

Before you are able to change the receive mode, you will need to turn off DR.

To turn off DR press MENU, then the down arrow until FAX and press OK. Then with down arrow choose MISC and press OK. Then with down arrow chose DISTINGTIVE and OK, then down arrow until OFF and press OK.

DR MODE is in use means that your machine is setup with the distinctive ring feature, to turn it off follow the directions below.

Turning off the Distinctive Ring
1 Press Menu/Set, 2, 0, 2.
2 Press ▲ or ▼ to select Off.
Press Menu/Set.
3 Press Stop/Exit.

Then you will be able to change the receive mode.

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The machine should have a menu selection. Sometimes it takes patience and time to sit down and go through items to select.
Without having a manual to check, these menus should be available for one to make changes to the fax features.
Somewhere in the menu selection there should be a fax setup recieve and send mode. In that selection you should find the choice to make your changes.
If you do not have a manual, other than finding someone with a manual, this would be your best way to make the changes.
The vender might have the manual, if they do, it might be for a fee.
Good luck

It's all part of the setup that's in your manual. If you use the menu, go to reports and print the user settings you can check if it's set to hold faxes in memory or to print right away. It's all done by user selection.

Try this: using a cell phone, call your fax. Listen on the cell for a busy signal, fax tones, dial tone, etc. If the fax does not answer the cell, check the following: make sure the phone line is plugged into the LINE jack on the fax, NOT THE PHONE JACK. The phone jack is to connect a TELEPHONE to the fax. If problem still exists, press MENU on your MFC, and scroll to GENERAL SETUP, FAX. Scroll to SETUP RECEIVE, and, after writing down the settings, try changing the RING DELAY or RING TIME settings. If problem is still there, press CLEAR/BACK button until GENERAL SETUP appears on screen. Scroll down to INITIAL SETUP, and select RECEIVE MODE. Try changing RECEIVE MODE settings. Write them down before you change anything.

The message DR mode in use or BT Call Sign On will appear on the display of the Brother machine if you attempt to change the receive mode from Manual to another mode when the Distinctive Ring feature (BT Call Sign) is turned ON. If you want to change the Receive Mode, set the Distinctive Ring feature (BT Call Sign) OFF.

1. Press Menu or Menu/Set.
2. Select Fax => Miscellaneous or Tel Service => Distinctive or BT Call Sign.
3. Press the Up or Down Arrow key to select off. Press OK or Menu/Set.
4. Press Stop/Exit.

change the distinctive mode to off.......menu-miscell.-distinctive

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DR mode means that Distinctive Ring is set to on which will force your fax machine to manual receive. Turn DR off and you can set it to whatever mode you want.