Brother MFC9465CDN Note, How Does FaxAbility Work

Chapter 6

How Does FaxAbility Work?

Your telephone number will have the standard ring pattern of long, long tone, while the new number will have a ring pattern of long, silence, long, etc. When FaxAbility is On, you will not hear the first ring of all incoming calls on the fax machine. Extension telephones will ring as usual. If the fax machine recognizes the ring pattern, all ringing will stop and the fax machine will answer and automatically receive the fax message. Otherwise, you will hear the extension telephones and the fax machine continue to ring. The fax machine always listens to the ring pattern before it answers, so do not pick up the telephone during that time. You will quickly learn to recognize the ring pattern for faxes, so you will not be tempted to answer that number. Either you or a telephone answering device can answer the main number(s).

Flowchart Sequence of Incoming call

Incoming Call

(either Voice or Fax)

All extension phones ring twice,

fax machine is silent.

Registered	Main number
Duet (Fax)
Number	(Voice Number)

Fax machine		Fax machine
automatically		begins ringing
receives and prints		on third ring.
fax message
without ringing.
	You answer the call		Telephone Answering
	at an external telephone		Device (TAD)
	or an extension		answers the call.
	telephone.

Note

After you have set the FaxAbility feature to On, the receive mode is set to Manual automatically. Unless you have a TAD or Voice Mail set up on the FaxAbility number, Manual mode means you must answer all the call yourself. You can not change the receive mode to the other mode while the FaxAbility is set to on.

40