Internet Fax

What is the benefit?

You can save time and money by using Internet Fax feature. You can send fax message to anywhere in the world without making an international telephone call. Internet fax feature provides you not only simple sending and receiving fax message but forwarding or broadcasting fax messages.

Fax transmissions go through the Internet transported via e-mail servers.
You can select already programmed addresses from one touch/speed dial locations, or enter text using dial pad by pressing Shift + [1].

Receiving Internet Fax

When your Brother MFC is used on the network it is capable of receiving Internet Faxes from other Internet Fax machines

E-mail and Fax Forwarding

Received e-mail and fax messages can be forwarded to other Fax machine via standard telephone line, PC or Internet Fax via E-mail. This function can be configured using the Web management Utility or through the front panel. (Please see your MFC User guide to check that this function is supported. This function is only for monochrome models.)

Relayed Broadcasting

The feature of relay broadcasting allows the Brother MFC in conjunction with the optional NC-8100h Print/Fax Server to be used as a Relay Station, allowing users to send a document as an e-mail attachment (Tiff-f file format) from either a Brother MFC or PC over the medium known as the internet to another Brother MFC, which can then relay that message to up to 48 G3 fax machine over conventional telephone lines.

Relay Broadcasting requires the Brother MFC be connected to an E-mail Server on a LAN that is connected directly to the Internet. The E-mail server must support both the SMTP and POP3 protocols.

In a way of securing the Brother MFC it needs to be configured in such a way that only certain domains can be trusted to Relay Broadcast through the FAX/MFC. To use this function, you must specify domain names that you trust at the MFC. If your e-mail address is jack@brother.co.uk, your domain name can be identified as "brother.co.uk."

E-mail address is followed by desired standard phone number of FAX machine for example, "MFC@brother.com(FAX#111-2222)"

For example, if you are in London and your branch office is in L.A., you can save International call charge to send fax to your customer in Seattle via MFC in the branch office in L.A.

How to use?

You are requested to properly configure E-mail server setting (SMTP, POP3 address, e-mail address for MFC, user ID, and password to access e-mail servers) by using web browser management or MFC's front panel to use this function.

Did you know?

The NC-8100h Print/Fax Server supports the popular ITU T.37 recommendation for Internet fax. This means that your Internet Fax machine can communicate with other Internet fax machines that support this standard.

To see if your Brother printer supports these and other capabilities, visit the Brother Solutions Center web site at http://solutions.brother.com.

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