Brother 3550 manual What Is Polling?, How Does It Work?, When to Use Polling

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POLLING

9. POLLING

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

What Is Polling?

Polling is the process of retrieving faxes from another fax machine. You may use

yourmachineto“poll”othermachines,oryoumayasksomeonetopollyourmachine.

Thepartywhopollspaysforthecostofthecall.

How Does It Work?

First all parties set up their fax machines so that they can accommodate polling.

Thenonepartyleavesdocuments inthefaxmachinesothattheotherpartycancall

and have the documents sent to them.

Polling side Polled side

Call

Receive document

When to Use Polling

Usepollingtocontrolthecostofwhopaysforsendingafax.

1.If you want to pay for the cost of the call: Send faxes to other parties as you normally would, and if another party has documents to send you, ask if you can pollforthem.

2.Ifyouwantotherstopayforthecostofthecall:Askthemtopollyourfaxmachine for documents they want, and have them fax any documents that you want.

*There are some fax machines that will not respond to the this function.

HelpfulHints Using Polling Effectively (Examples)

Problem No. 1: You want another party to send you a long fax, but they do not

wanttopayforthecall.

Solution: Ask them to leave the document in their fax machine so you can

pollforit.

Problem No. 2: Salesrepresentativeshavedifficultysendingfaxestothehead

office’sfaxmachinebecauseitisbusymuchofthetime.

Solution: Headofficecanpollthesalesrepresentatives’faxmachines.

Problem No. 3: Becauseofthetimeorlocation,itischeaperforsomeonetocall

youthanitisforyoutomakethecall.

Solution: Asktheotherpartytopollforthedocumentsandoffertopayfor

thecallattheirlowerrate.

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