Glossary

A

AC

Alternating current. The type of electrical current available from a wall outlet.

Activity report

Journal of transactions, both sent and received.

ADF

Automatic Document Feeder. The document tray on the fax holds 20 sheets of paper.

Ans. Machine Mode

If you connect an answering machine to your fax, this option allows you to receive documents sent from other fax machines, as well as messages from people calling when you are out.

Automatic dialling

Dialling fax or telephone numbers by pressing one or three buttons. To use automatic dialling, you must register the numbers in the fax’s memory. See also One-touch Speed Dialling and Coded Speed Dial- ling.

B

Bi-directional printing

The ability of the fax to print both left to right and right to left. This printing method provides a fast speed. See also Unidirectional printing.

bps

Bits per second. Refers to the speed with which a fax machine sends and receives data.

Bubble Jet printing

An ink-jet type printing method that heats the ink to the boiling point to form a bubble. When the bubble expands, there is no room left in the nozzle for the ink and the ink is projected onto the paper.

C

CCITT/ITU-TS

Formerly known as CCITT, Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone. CCITT has been replaced by the International Telecommunications Union-Telecommunications Sector (ITU-TS), a committee created to set international standards for telecommunications.

CNG

Calling Tone. This is a signal sent by fax machines to identify the call as an incoming document. When the receiving fax detects this signal, it automatically starts to receive the fax transmission. The majority of fax machines in use today can send and detect CNG signals.

Coded Speed Dialling

An automatic dialling method that allows you to dial a fax or telephone number by pressing three buttons- [Coded Dial] and a two-digit code using the numeric buttons. You can register up to 20 Coded Speed Di- alling numbers in the fax.

Cursor

The underline symbol you see on the LCD when you register numbers and names in the fax. Press the arrow buttons to move the cursor.

D

Delayed Sending

The ability to send a document at a preset time in the future. You do not have to be in your office to use Delayed Sending to one or more locations. (You can set up only one delayed transmission at a time on the fax.)

Density control

A setting that darkens or lightens the scanning of documents.

Dialling methods

Ways of pressing one or more buttons to access a number to connect to an outside party or fax ma- chine. Dialling methods include One-touch, Coded Speed Dialling, and Manual (Regular).

Direct Sending

Transmitting a fax document one page at a time without having the document scanned into memory.

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