Canon FAX-L240, FAX-L290 manual If you hear a beep tone or silence, If you hear a voice

■If you hear a beep tone or silence:

4Someone is trying to send you a fax. Press Start/Copy on your FAX and hang up to begin receiving the document.

•If you are using the telephone and it is located away from your unit, dial 25 (the default remote receiving ID) on your telephone and hang up.

■If you hear a voice:

4Start your conversation. If the caller wants to send a fax after talking to you, ask them to press the start button on their fax machine.

5When you hear a beep, press Start/Copy on your FAX and hang up to begin receiving the document.

•If you are using the telephone and it is located away from your unit, dial 25 (the default remote receiving ID) on your telephone and hang up.

n• If using the handset, be sure to hang up after you press Start/Copy on the FAX, otherwise the call will be disconnected.

•The FAX will alert you by beeping if the handset is not hung up properly. Make sure the

handset is seated properly in its cradle. If you do not want the FAX to beep, disable the OFFHOOK ALARM setting (1 p. 14-4).

•If you cannot activate reception from the telephone, check that the REMOTE RX setting is enabled (1 p. 14-7).

•You can change the remote receiving ID (1 REMOTE RX ID, p. 14-7), or disable remote receiving (1 REMOTE RX, p. 14-7).

•If you have an answering machine connected to your FAX that can carry out remote- control operations (controlling your answering machine from a remote telephone), the security code for this function may be the same as the remote receiving ID of your FAX. If

this is the case, make sure you change the FAX’s remote receiving ID to make it distinct from the answering machine’s security code (1 REMOTE RX ID, p. 14-7).

Receiving Faxes

Chapter 8 Receiving Faxes 8-9