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Troubleshooting 

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IMPORTANT

For technical help, you must call the country where you bought the machine. Calls must be made 

from within

 that country.

 

Error messages

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As with any sophisticated office product, errors may occur. If this happens, your machine identifies 
the problem and shows an error message. The most common error messages are shown below.

You can correct most problems by yourself. If you need more help, the Brother Solutions Center 
offers latest FAQs and troubleshooting tips.

Visit us at http://solutions.brother.com.

Troubleshooting and Routine 

Maintenance

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Error Message

Cause

Action

Comm.Error

Poor phone line quality caused a 
communication error.

Send the fax again or connect the machine 
to another telephone line. If the problem 
continues, call the telephone company and 
ask them to check your phone line.

Connection Fail

You tried to poll a fax machine 
that is not in Polled Waiting mode.

Check the other fax machine's polling 
setup.

Cover is Open

The scanner cover is not closed 
completely.

Lift the scanner cover and then close it 
again.

Data Remaining

Print data is left in the machine's 
memory.

Re-start printing from your computer.

Print data is left in the machine's 
memory. The USB cable was 
unplugged while the computer 
was sending the data to the 
machine.

Press 

Stop/Exit

. The machine will cancel 

the job and clear it from the memory. Try to 
print again.

Disconnected

The other person or other 
person's fax machine stopped the 
call.

Try to send or receive again.

Document Jam

The document was not inserted or 
fed properly, or the document 
scanned from the ADF was too 
long.

See 

Using the ADF

 on page 11.

See 

Document jam

 on page 103.

DR Mode in Use

The machine is set to Distinctive 
Ring mode. You cannot change 
the Receive Mode from Manual to 
another mode.

Set Distinctive Ring to off. (See 

Turning off 

Distinctive Ring

 on page 40.)

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  • 11. See Document jam on page 103.

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