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5 5Setup Receive
Basic Receiving Operations
Choosing the Receive Mode
There are four different receive modes for your FAX/MFC. You may choose the mode that best suits your needs by pressing Receive Mode repeatedly until the LCD shows the setting you want to use.
LCD | How it works | When to use it |
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FAX ONLY | The FAX/MFC | For dedicated fax lines. |
(automatic receive) | automatically answers | You cannot receive a voice |
| every call as a fax. | call but you can call out. |
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FAX/TEL* | The FAX/MFC controls the | You cannot have an |
(fax/telephone) | line and automatically | answering machine on the |
| answers every call. | same line, even if it is on a |
| If the call is a fax it will | separate wall jack on the |
| receive the fax. If the call is | same line. |
| not a fax it will ring | You cannot use the |
| telephone company’s Voice | |
| pick up the call. | Mail in this mode. |
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TAD:ANSWER | The external TAD | Use this mode if you have |
MACH. | automatically answers | an external answering |
(external telephone | every call. Voice messages | machine on your phone |
answering device) | are stored on the external | line. |
| TAD. Fax messages are |
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| printed. |
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MANUAL | You control the phone line | Use this mode when you |
(manual receive) | and must answer every call | are using a computer |
| yourself. | modem on the same line or |
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| if you receive very few fax |
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| messages. |
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| You can also use this mode |
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| with Distinctive Ring. |
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*In FAX/TEL mode you must set the Ring Delay and F/T Ring Time. If you have extension phones on the line, keep the Ring Delay set to 4 rings.
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