Brother 1840C, 3240C How Does FaxAbility Work?

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How Does FaxAbility Work?
Your telephone number will have the standard ring pattern of long,
long tone, while the new number will have a ring pattern of long,
silence, long, etc. When FaxAbility is On, you will not hear the first
ring of all incoming calls on the fax machine. Extension phone s will
ring as usual. If the fax machine recognizes the ring pattern, all
ringing will stop and the fax machine will answer and automatically
receive the fax message. Otherwise, you will hear the extension
phones and the fax machine con tinue to ring. The fax machine
always listens to the ring pa ttern before it answers, so do not pick up
the phone during that time. You will quickly learn to recognize the
ring pattern for faxes, so you will not be tempted to a nswer that
number. Either you or a telephon e answering device can answer the
main number(s).
After you have set the FaxAbility feature to On, the receive mode
is set to Manual automatically. Unless you have a TAD or Voice
Mail set up on the FaxAbility number, Manual mode means you
must answer all the call yourself. You can not change the
receive mode to the other mode while the FaxAbility is set to on.
All extension phones ring,
fax machine is silent.
Fax machine automatically
receives and prints fax
message without ringing.
Fax machine begins
ringing on third ring.
Registered
Duet (Fax) Number Main number (Voice Number)
You answer the call
at an external phone
or an extension
phone.
Telephone Answering
Device (TAD)
answers the call.
Incoming Call
(either Voice or Fax)
Flowchart Sequence o f Incoming call