Glossary

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ECM

 

Ink cartridge

Error Correction Mode. The ability of your fax

 

The special type of ink cartridge used with

to reduce system and line errors when sending

 

Canon Bubble Jet fax machines. The ink

or receiving from another fax with ECM

 

cartridge for the fax includes the print head

capability. ECM is most effective in areas

 

and ink. Use the BX-3 cartridge only.

where the telephone lines are in poor condition

 

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or there is frequent interference on the line. Do

 

not use ECM if you need to send a document

 

 

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quickly and you are sure the other party can

 

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read your transmission without it (turning off

 

The telephone receptacles on your wall or in

ECM also turns off MMR).

 

 

your fax used to connect the fax to the

 

 

Extension

 

telephone line, answering machine and

A telephone connected to the fax.

 

extension phone.

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Fax Only Mode

 

Manual Dialling

This option allows you to use your fax only to

 

Pressing the individual numeric buttons to dial

receive faxes automatically. If you have a

 

a fax number. Also called regular dialling.

dedicated fax line, you may want to set this

 

Manual Mode

mode.

 

A setting that allows you to answer all

 

 

Fax/Tel Mode

 

incoming telephone and fax calls. If you hear a

This option allows you to set the fax to

 

slow beep it indicates an incoming fax

automatically detect whether a call is from a

 

transmission from another machine. Just press

fax or telephone. If the call is from another

 

[Start/Copy] to receive the incoming fax.

fax, the transmission is automatically received.

 

Manual redialling

If the call is from a telephone, the fax rings to

 

When you use Regular dialling, you can redial

let you know, so you can pick up the handset.

 

 

a number manually simply by pressing

With this feature, one telephone line can be

 

 

[Redial/Pause] on the operation panel. The last

shared by both the telephone and the fax.

 

 

number called is the number redialled.

FINE

 

 

Memory Sending

The setting for documents with very small

 

 

Scans a document into memory before the fax

characters and lines.

 

 

dials the numbers and sends it. This method is

 

 

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faster than Direct Sending and it allows you to

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retrieve your original document immediately

 

after scanning.

G3, Group 3 fax machine

 

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De®ned by CCITT. Uses encoding schemes to

 

transmit image data while reducing the amount

 

 

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of data that needs to be transmitted, thus

 

Noise

reducing transmission time. G3 fax machines

 

A term applied to a variety of problems that

can transmit one page in less than one minute.

 

 

impair the operation of telephone lines used for

Encoding schemes for G3 fax machines are

 

 

faxing.

Modi®ed Huffman (MH), Modi®ed Read

 

 

Numeric buttons

(MR), and Modi®ed Modi®ed Read (MMR).

 

H

 

The round numbered buttons on the operation

 

panel marked the same as a standard telephone

 

keypad. Press them to perform Manual

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Hook

 

Dialling. You also use the numeric buttons to

 

enter numbers and letters when you register

The button that engages and disengages the

 

 

numbers and names, and for entering Coded

telephone line.

 

 

Speed Dialling codes with two or more digits.

 

 

 

 

 

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