Brother International MFC-9550 Owners Manual - Page 93

80 C H A P T E R E I G H T Call Reservation with an External Telephone (Only for MFC-9050) If you connect an external telephone to the unit, you can send a fax and then talk to the recipient using the Call Reservation feature. After your fax has been printed on the receiving end, the receiving fax machine will ring as if it were receiving a telephone call. When the recipient picks up the handset, your fax machine will ring. Then you can pick up your handset of the external telephone and press Tel, then start a conversation. For further information on how to use this function, see chap. 6. Tone/Pulse If you have pulse dialling service, but need to send tone signals (for telephone banking, for example), follow the directions below. If you have touch tone service, you do not need this feature to send tone signals. 1 Lift the handset. 2 Press #. Any digits dialled after this sends tone signals. 3 When you hang up, the machine returns to pulse dialling service. See "Select Answer Mode" chap. 5 Fax/Tel (F/T) Mode When you share one line for your telephone and fax machine, in the Fax/Tel (F/T) Mode, the fax machine can determine whether an incoming call is a fax or a telephone call. Tel Key Only for MFC-9050 This key is used to enter into a telephone conversation having picked up the handset of an external telephone in F/T pseudo-ringing etc. Only for MFC-9550 If you press Tel when you are talking lifting the handset with the other end, you can hear the other end from machine's monitor speaker, but the other end cannot hear you.