Muratec F-98 What’s inside this section, Quick introduction to fax in general

What’s inside this section

A quick introduction to fax in general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1

Make sure it’s all out of the packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2

What are all the parts? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 What do the keys do? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.6 EasyStart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.10 Sending faxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.12 Receiving faxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.17

Making copies 1.19

Getting started

A quick introduction to fax in general

What’s a fax document?

Simply put, a fax document is anything a fax user wants to fax to someone else. It can be just one page or as many pages as you need. That’s up to you. It can be text, a photograph or even your child’s latest drawing!

What’s a fax number?

Because your fax operates on standard phone lines, a fax number is just a regular phone number. And, because your fax is also a high-quality, full-featured telephone, your fax number can be your regular phone number — just add an optional handset to your fax. Or you can dedicate a phone number to your fax, letting you use one number just for ordinary voice calls and one just for fax.

What are resolution and grayscale?

Just as cars are measured by engine size, and stereo systems are measured by watts per channel, so fax machines are measured by resolution and grayscale.

Resolution refers to the sharpness of a fax transmission. It’s expressed in lines per inch (lpi). An international agency has defined three specific levels of resolution:

•Normal (203 × 98 vertical lpi)

•Fine (203 × 196 lpi)

•Superfine (203 × 392 lpi).

Similarly, one can judge a fax transmission by its number of grayscale levels, or shades of gray — really, halftones such as you might see in a newspaper photo. It’s likely most of your fax documents will be dark text on white paper. However, when you want to send photographs and other shaded items, you can set your fax machine to transmit in 64-level grayscale.

So why not always set your fax machine for superfine, or for grayscale?

Because these settings make your machine send more information, making trans- missions last longer and (on long-distance calls) driving up your phone bills. That’s why, as you’ll see, we’ve made it easy for you to set your fax machine for the most efficient, and truest, transmission of the types of documents you send!

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