Panasonic KX-TG2583NZS Automatic Answering Operation, Setting the Unit to Answer Calls, System

Automatic Answering Operation

When the unit answers a call, a greeting message is played and the caller’s message is recorded. While recording, “- Answering -” will flash on the base unit display.

•The total recording time (including greeting message) is about

15 minutes. If messages are recorded in noisy rooms, the time may be shortened by up to 3 minutes.

•A maximum of 64 messages (including greeting message) can be recorded.

Setting the Unit to Answer Calls

Press (ANSWER!ON) to turn on the answering
system.	,
•The indicator lights and “Answer set” is
heard.
•The unit will announce the remaining	ANSWER ON
recording time if it is less than 5
minutes.	Indicator
•If you hear “Memory full”, “Message
full” is displayed on the base unit
and the ANSWER ON indicator
flashes rapidly, erase some, or all, of
the messages (p. 59).
	(ANSWERÒON) (STOP/EXIT)

•If you do not want the unit to answer calls, press (ANSWER!ON) again to turn off the answering system. The indicator light goes out and “Answer off ” is heard.

•You can also turn on the answering system remotely using any other phone (p. 65).

•KX-TG2583NZS will not answer incoming calls on your FaxAbility number.

Monitoring incoming calls

While a call is being recorded, you can monitor it through the base unit speaker.

To answer the call with the base unit, press (DIGITAL!SP-PHONE). For the handset, press (TALK). The unit stops recording.

If the call monitoring feature is not required, turn it off by pressing and holding (STOP/EXIT) in the standby mode. Each time you press and hold (STOP/EXIT) in the standby mode, the feature will turn on or off.

While a call is being recorded, you can turn the feature ON by pressing (Å) or (Ä).

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