Faxing with a Brother MFC-7840W

Just adding this in case it helps someone else facing the same predicament I had. After longer than I care to admit calling Apple help and searching around, I found my answer and thought I'd share:
If you can't figure out how to fax directly from OS X to a Brother MFC-7840, you can't use the PDF fax option. Instead, follow the method shown here: http://bit.ly/BrotherBS
This may be elementary to other users, but being a newbie to Macs (hence the name), it confounded me for a long while. Hopefully, I've just saved someone some time.

Did you download the scanner driver from this link?

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