10 Polling

Polling lets you set up your machine so other people can receive faxes from you, but they pay for the call. It also lets you call somebody else’s fax machine and receive a fax from it, so you pay for the call. The polling feature needs to be set up on both machines for this to work. Not all fax machines support polling.

Polling receive

Polling receive lets you call another fax machine to receive a fax.

a Make sure you are in Fax mode . b Press Menu, 2, 1, 8.

c Press a or b to choose Standard. Press OK.

d Enter the fax number you are polling. Press Start.

Secure polling

Secure polling lets you restrict who can get the documents you set up to be polled. Secure polling only works with Brother fax machines. If you want to get a fax from a secured Brother machine you have to enter the secure code.

a Make sure you are in Fax mode . b Press Menu, 2, 1, 8.

c Press a or b to choose Secure. Press OK.

d Enter a four-digit secure code. Press OK.

This is the security code of the fax machine you are polling.

e Enter the fax number you are polling. f Press Start.

Delayed polling

Delayed polling lets you set the machine to begin polling receive at a later time. You can only set up one delayed polling operation.

a Make sure you are in Fax mode . b Press Menu, 2, 1, 8.

c Press a or b to choose Timer. Press OK.

d Enter the time (in 24-hour format) you want to begin polling.

For example, enter 21:45 for 9:45 PM. Press OK.

e Enter the fax number you are polling. Press Start.

The machine makes the polling call at the time you entered.

Note

If the other fax machine that you are calling

has not been set-up for Polling, you will 10 receive the message Connection Fail.

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