Setting your remote access code

The remote access code lets you access the Remote Retrieval features when you are away from the fax machine. Before you use the remote access and retrieval features, you have to set up your own code. The default code is inactive code (---).

1

Press Menu/Set, 8, 3.

3.REMOTE ACCESS

2

Enter a three-digit number from

 

 

000 to 999.

 

Press Menu/Set. (The “” cannot be changed.)

Do not use the same digits that appear in your Fax Receive Code(51) or Telephone Answer Code (#51). (See Operation from extension telephones on page 5-5.)

3 Press Stop/Exit.

You can change your code at any time by entering a new one. If you want to make your code inactive, press Stop/Exit in Step 2 to restore the inactive setting (---).

Remote Retrieval

You can call the fax machine from any telephone or fax machine using touch tone, then use the Remote Access Code and remote commands to retrieve fax messages. Cut out the Remote Retrieval Access Card on the last page and keep it in your wallet to help you.

Using your remote access code

1 Dial the fax number from a telephone or another fax machine using touch tone.

2 When the fax machine answers, immediately enter your Remote Access Code (3 digits followed by ).

3 The fax machine signals if it has received fax messages:

1 long beep — Fax messages No beeps — No fax messages

4 The fax machine gives two short beeps, which tells you to enter a command. The fax machine will hang up if you wait longer than 30 seconds to enter a command. The fax machine will beep three times, if you enter an invalid command.

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6

Press 90 to reset the fax machine when you’ve finished.

Hang up.

If the fax machine is set to MANUAL mode and you want to use the remote retrieval features, you can access the fax machine by waiting about 2 minutes after it starts ringing, and then entering the Remote Access Code within 30 seconds.

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