It is not necessary to have an outgoing message. The F/T mode will work fine without one. It is only to help the caller understand the status of your machine.

For example, you can leave a message that says:

“Hello, please wait, we are trying to connect you. If you wish to send a fax, please wait until you hear a fax tone and press the Start key, or, press 5 1 ( 9 1 for New Zealand) (your three-digit remote Fax Receive Code) and press the Start key.”

Fax Detect

When you use this feature, you don’t have to press Fax Start when you answer a fax call and hear calling beeps. Just hold the handset and wait for several seconds. When you see RECEIVE on the fax screen or when you hear “chirps” through the handset of an extension phone connected to another wall jack, just replace the handset, and your machine does the rest.

•Selecting ON allows the machine to receive fax calls automatically, even if you lift the handset of an extension phone, an external phone, a phone or TAD connected to the machine.

•Selecting SEMI lets the fax machine receive the call only if you’ve answered it at the machine.

•Selecting OFF means you will have to activate the machine yourself, by pressing Fax Start or by pressing 5 1( 9 1 for New Zealand) if you are not at your machine. (See Operation from an External or Extension Telephone, page 44 and For F/T (Fax/Tel) Mode Only, page 44.)

In case Fax Detect does not work, because of a poor phone line connection, just press Fax Start or press the Fax Receive Code 5 1 ( 9 1 for New Zealand). (You have to set Remote Code to ON in Menu/Set, 2, 4 to use 5 1 ( 9 1 for New Zealand).)

1Press Menu/Set, 2, 3.

2Use or to select ON, SEMI or OFF, and press Menu/Set when the screen displays your selection.

3Press Stop/Exit.

If you’ve set the feature to ON, but your machine doesn’t automatically connect a fax call when you lift an external or extension phone handset, press 5 1 ( 9 1 for New Zealand).

At the machine, lift the handset and press Fax Start.

Receiving a Fax

Printing a Reduced Incoming Document

You can always reduce the size of an incoming fax to a fixed percentage with your machine. If you choose AUTO, the machine reduces an incoming document automatically, so that it fits on one page of A4 recording paper, regardless of the size of the original document.

1 Press Menu/Set, 2, 5. The screen displays

5.REDUCTION

 

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