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