Brother MFC-9550 Advanced Receiving Operations, Operation from an External or Extension Telephone

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Advanced Receiving Operations

See “Setting the F/T Ring Time” in this chapter

See “Outgoing Message (OGM) of External TAD” chap. 2

Operation from an External or Extension Telephone

An external phone is a telephone that is plugged into your machine (either into the machine’s EXT socket or into the back of the connector that plugs into the telephone wall socket). An extension phone is another phone on the same phone number as your machine, but plugged into a different telephone wall socket. For example, your machine may be connected to a phone line in your study, and you may have another phone on the same line (and same phone number) in your kitchen. This feature enables you to answer the phone in the kitchen if it rings while you are making a coffee, knowing that you can transfer the call to your machine if the incoming call is a fax.

If you answer a fax call on an external or extension phone, you can make your machine take over by using the Activation Code. When you press the Activation Code 5 1, the machine starts to receive a fax.

If the machine answers a voice call and F/T pseudo-rings for you to take over, use the Deactivation Code # 5 1 to take the call at an extension phone. The Deactivation Code is used only in Fax/Tel (F/T) Mode.

If you answer a call, and no one is on the line, assume you’re receiving a fax. At the machine phone, press Start, then hang up. At an extension phone, press 5 1, wait for fax receiving tones (chirps), then hang up. At an external phone, press 5 1 and wait for the phone to be disconnected (the screen displays RECEIVING) before you hang up. (Your caller will have to press Start to send the fax.)

If you accidentally pick up an extension phone when a fax message is being received, you may disrupt the transmission or render some portions unreadable.

Extension telephones are not permitted in some countries, in such a case the Deactivation Code will not work.

The Remote Activation Code can also be used by your callers. When you are using an external TAD, your outgoing message (OGM) should end with the statement “to send a fax, press 5 1”.

For Fax/Tel (F/T) Mode Only

When the machine is in Fax/Tel (F/T) Mode, it will use the F/T Ring Time (F/T pseudo-ringing) to alert you to a voice call. If you’re at the machine, you can lift the external telephone’s handset (and press Tel for MFC-9050) to answer.