5 5Setup Receive
Receive Mode Settings
Select Your Receive Mode
There are three different receive modes for your MFC. You may choose the mode that best suits your needs by pressing Receive Mode repeatedly until the LCD shows the setting you want to use.
LCD | How it works | When to use it |
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FAX ONLY | The MFC automotically | For dedicated fax lines. |
(automatic receive) | answers every call as a fax. |
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EXT.TEL/TAD | If an external telephone is | Use this mode if you |
(External telephone / | connected to the EXT. | receive very few faxes. |
External Telephone | jack, you control the phone |
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Answering Device) | line and must answer every |
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| call yourself. |
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| If an external TAD | Use this mode if you |
| (telephone answering | have an external |
| device) is connected to the | answering machine on |
| EXT. jack, the TAD | your phone line. |
| automatically answers |
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| every call. Voice messages |
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| are stored in the external |
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| TAD. Fax messages are |
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| printed. |
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MANUAL | You control the phone line | Use this mode when you |
(manual receive) | and must answer every call | are using a computer |
| yourself by using an | modem on the same line |
| external phone. | or if you receive very |
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| few fax messages. |
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| You can use this mode |
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| with Distinctive Ring. |
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