F-code communication
F-code: an introduction
The ITU-T, part of the United Nations agency that maintains international telecom- munications standards (see the Glossary that begins on page 3.16), has now created a fax industry standard for using sub-addressing and password-based communica- tions with not only other Muratec fax machines but also other manufacturers’ machines. One name for this standard is F-Code, and that is what we’ll call it in these instructions and on your machine’s display.
How sub-addressing works: think of a mailroom
If you are new to the concept of sub-addressing, think about how someone receives mail addressed to a department within that person’s company. For example, mail for Accounting gets to the mailroom for the entire company. The Mail Department then routes the mail to Accounting.
That’s the idea behind sub-addressing. Once your fax and another F-Code-compati- ble fax begin their communication, they exchange special F-Code signals to indicate just where the fax really should go. It’s as if the sending fax were saying, “Take this one and deliver it to room 48” and the receiving fax were replying, “48? OK, will do.”
For greater security, you can set up an ITU-T-compatible sub-address and password with F-Code, which lets you use secure transmission and polling in communication with any other fax machine, so long as it, too, uses the F-Code standard from ITU-T.
To use ITU-Tsub-addressing and password features, you must create F-Code boxes in your machine. Your machine can use up to 10 of these boxes. You can store up to 30 documents (not pages) into each F-Code box.
Setting up the F-code boxes
Before you set up an F-code box, there are a few things you should know:
•The remote fax machine must support the ITU-Tsubaddress and password capa- bilities, and the remote fax users must be using it.
•Your machine’s F-code box works like a normal SecureMail mailbox except that it accepts and stores ITU-T-standard F-code secure communication.
•The received documents are stored in the F-code box. To print them, you have to enter an I.D. code.
(See “Print a document received in F-code box,” page 2.25.)
•Your machine can create up to 10 F-code boxes. Each box can receive up to 30 documents.
Beyond the basics
Creating or modifying an F-code box
To use the F-code box, you must have the F-code boxes set up on your fax machine. You may also want to modify existing F-code boxes (but, to do so, you must know the each box’s I.D. code; see step 5 and step 14).
To create or modify an F-code box:
1 Press PROGRAM, E, 1.
Set F-Code Box
2 Press ENTER. Depending on whether you already have a name entered for F-code box 01, the LCD shows briefly:
Select F-CodeBox
then it will show either:
01:No Number | or 01:Bookkeeping |
If this is the F-code box you want to set, skip to step 4. (However, our samples from here on will refer to F-code box 03, rather than 01.)
3 Use the numeric keypad to enter the two-digit number (01-10) of the F-code box you want to create or modify. (Use a leading zero for numbers below 10.) Here, we have entered 0, 3 and see:
03:No Number or 03:MuratecOffice
4 If you decide you want to select a different F-code box, just use the numeric keypad to enter the two-digit number for the box you want before going on to step 5.
5 Press ENTER.
•If you are creating this F-code box for the first time, the following display won’t appear. Skip to step 6.
•If you selected a previously created F-code box, the LCD shows:
I.D. Code :****
To modify this previously created F-code box, enter the proper I.D. code using the numeric keypad, then press ENTER.
