Canon FAX-L800 manual Whats Polling?, Before You Use Polling Receiving

What's Polling?

Polling means a fax calls another fax and requests that the other fax send a document that it is holding. Unlike normal sending and receiving, in polling the receiver always calls the sender. This is called polling to receive a document. The sender sends the document in response to the polling by a telephone call from the receiver.

Your fax can be set up to function in both roles. Your fax can poll to receive a document, or it can be polled to send a document that it is holding.

Before You Use Polling Receiving

Before you try to set up polling, note the following points:

JWith one operation you can poll several faxes. You can dial up to 210 telephone numbers and poll those faxes to receive documents that they are holding.

JYou can poll a document at any time, but you may ®nd it more useful to set your fax for polling other faxes at speci®ed times throughout the day. (Q11-5)

JYou must know if the other fax is holding the document under both a subaddress and password or only a subaddress or password. You must also know the subaddress and password so you can enter them on your fax. If you do not know the subaddress or password, contact the other party.

JIf the other party's document(s) are registered for polling without a subaddress or password, you can still perform polling receiving.

JIf the other party's fax does not support ITU-T subaddress/password transactions, you can ask them to set the polling ID to 255 or 1111 1111 binary when the other party's fax machine is a Canon fax.

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