Sendin or receiving faxes

Noise in the phone line, or low signal strength during fax transmission can result in fax failures. Noise or poor signal strength can cause a partial or complete loss of fax information during transmission. When Error Correction Mode (ECM) is on, the receiving fax machine checks the fax information for errors during reception. If the receiving fax machine detects an error, the receiving fax requests that the sending fax resend the information. Resending all or part of the information can make transmission times longer, but helps improve the quality of the received fax.
If the phone line quality or signal strength is extremely poor, sending a fax can fail. Turning off ECM can improve the ability of the product to send a fax successfully when the phone line quality is poor. However, the image quality of the received fax might be poor.
If ECM must be off to send faxes successfully, have the telephone service provider check the phone line quality. For an HP Fax, turning off ECM from the control panel does not necessarily mean that fax transmission will not use ECM. Fax products use ECM as follows.

• All faxes sent in color use ECM.
• All faxes sent at the highest transmission speed use ECM.
• The ECM setting affects only sent faxes, not received faxes.

Enabling or disabling Error correction mode (ECM)

1. On the product control panel, press the Menu button ( ).
2. Use the arrow buttons ( ) to select Basic Fax , and then press the OK button ( ).
3. Use the arrow buttons ( ) to select ECM Mode , and then press the OK button ( ).
4. Use the arrow buttons ( ) to select On or Off , and then press the OK button ( ) to confirm the setting.
5. Press the Back button ( ) twice to return to the main screen.

Yes, you must set up your fax machines like this: The receiving fax must be set to auto receive and the telephone line must be inserted in the "line" input. A line must then be connected from the "Tel" to the "Line" of the Transmitting machine, which must be set to "manual receive." This is not really a satisfactory way of doing things as you can't send and receive 2 machines on the same line together. A much better way is to have 2 lines. with a machine attached to each. Get the tel company to put "No answer transfer" on the line as an accesory. Give them the number of the fax machine that transmits. Make it "manual receive" Now you have a versatile system that you can also use the office telephone with.

Your fax machine thinks everything is OK. If you can receive you can send.

call the failing fax number with a regular phone and listen for fax tones.

HI.when u try to receive or send any fax.fax gives any msg r not.first check ur telephone line.u have to connect it in line.there are two places in fax .one is ext and second is line.check it u r putting it line.for receiving check auto answer .put it on fax only mode.u will receive fax.MIAN AKHLAQ.if it helps rate the solution.

turn the printer on ...
unplug the power cable without turning the printer off....
press and hold # & 3, keep them on hold ....
while holding these two buttons put the power cable back in ... and wait for a few the screen to come up ... the screen may go blank ... use the power button to turn the printer on ... try to receive the fax ...
if it will not work then try # & 6 .... remember take the backup of phone numbers if stored on the printer as it ll erase the memory of the printer ,,,

yes. you have to change to tel/fax mode.

manual (installation and manual) can be downloaded from www.brother.com (choose your country and your mfc). read faq, too!)

The normal problem with a fax that will not receive calls it the phone line.
The Line Voltage, or current may be low, or the signal ( DB loss) may be affecting it.
Let me give you an explaination. When you send, you physically connect to the phone line, make the dial tone and whatever is there, it goes out over the line.
When you receive a fax, it is like a remote control, with a remote you need good batteries to generate enough signal to turn on a product.
With a fax, you require an electrical signal, like a remote control to activate the receive capability. Low power, voltage or current. or static, will not allow it to receive, just like a remote with a bad battery will not turn on a product.
Issues can be. The phone cord between the fax and the jack. A bad jack, something on the outside line.
Using a digital phone line, or having another device on the same phone line drawing down the line, or picking up. A credit card machine, answering machine, even another phone can cause issues. If on a shared phone line, disconnect everthing but the fax and have someone send you a test fax. See if that helps.
But more than 90 percent of fax will send , will not receive issues are phone line related.

1st is the LINE and second is to connect the telephone.
To send and receive fax, u must connect the line into the first jack.

Call your cell phone from the fax machine and check the caller ID to make sure that it is the correct number for your fax machine. Next, call the fax machine from you cell phone, and make sure the fax machine rings. Problems like these are almost always a phone line issue, not the machine.

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