Distinctive Ring; What does your telephone company's ‘Distinctive Ring’ do?; What does Brother's ‘Distinctive Ring’ do?- Page 66

Chapter 7

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To avoid conflicts between your Brother 
machine and your voice mail service, do one 
of the following:

Get the Distinctive Ring service from your 
telephone company. Distinctive Ring is a 
feature of your Brother machine that allows a 
person with one line to receive fax and voice 
calls through two different phone numbers on 
that one line. Brother uses the term 
‘Distinctive Ring,’ but telephone companies 
market the service under a variety of names, 
such as Custom Ringing, Personalized Ring, 
Smart Ring, RingMaster, Ident-A-Ring, Ident-
A-Call, Data Ident-A-Call, Teen Ring, and 
SimpleBiz Fax & Alternate Number Ringing. 
This service establishes a second telephone 
number on the same line as your existing 
telephone number, and each number has its 
own ring pattern. Typically, the original 
number rings with the standard ring pattern 
and is used for receiving voice calls, and the 
second number rings with a different ring 
pattern and is used for receiving faxes. (See 

Distinctive Ring

 on page 50.)

OR

Set your Brother machine’s Receive Mode to 
“Manual.” Manual Mode requires that you 
answer every incoming call if you want to be 
able to receive a fax. If the incoming call is a 
telephone call, then complete the call as you 
normally would. If you hear fax sending tones 
you must transfer the call to the Brother 
machine by pressing 

l

5 1

 on the dial pad of 

the telephone. Unanswered fax and voice 
calls will go to your Voice Mail. (To set the 
machine in 

MANUAL

 Mode, see 

Choosing 

the Receive Mode

 on page 42.)

Distinctive Ring

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Brother uses the term ‘Distinctive Ring’ but 
different telephone companies have other 
names for this service such as Smart Ring, 
RingMaster, Teen Ring, Custom Ringing, 
Personalized Ring, Data Ident-A-Call, Ident-
A-Call, Ident-A-Ring or SimpleBiz Fax & 
Alternate Number Ringing.

What does your telephone company's 
‘Distinctive Ring’ do?

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Your telephone company's Distinctive Ring 
service allows you to have more than one 
number on the same telephone line. 

If you 

need more than one telephone number, it 
is cheaper than paying for an extra line

. 

Each telephone number has its own 
distinctive ring pattern, so you will know 
which telephone number is ringing. This is 
one way you can have a separate telephone 
number for your machine.

Note

Please call your telephone company for 
availability and rates.

What does Brother's ‘Distinctive Ring’ 
do?

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The Brother machine has a Distinctive Ring 
feature that allows you to use your machine to 
take full advantage of the telephone 
company's Distinctive Ring service. The new 
telephone number on your line can just 
receive faxes.

Note

You must pay for your telephone 
company's Distinctive Ring service before 
you program the machine to work with it.