99Special FeaturesChapter 9
Special Features
Polling

What is Polling?

In normal faxing, a fax machine sends a document to another fax machine. With
polling, a fax machine calls another fax machine and requests that a document be sent
to it; in other words, it “polls” that fax machine.
Your FAX has the capability of functioning in both roles; it can poll another fax
machine to retrieve a document from it (polling receiving), or it can hold a document
in its polling box so that other fax machines can poll your FAX and retrieve your
document (polling sending).

Polling Receiving

In polling receiving, your FAX calls another fax machine and requests it sends the
document it is holding.
You may find polling receiving convenient in the following situations:
– When you want to retrieve a document from an establishment, such as bank or
information service.
– When you want to retrieve a document from another fax machine at your
convenience.
– When you want to bear the transmission cost of receiving a document.

Polling Another Fax Machine

Before polling another fax machine, be sure to read the following:
• The FAX can only poll fax machines that support polling.
• The document you want to retrieve must be ready to be polled on the other
party’s fax machine. If necessary, call the other party to check.
• Call the other party and check if you require a subaddress and/or password to
retrieve the document from their fax machine. If you do, take note of them and
register them together with the fax number for speed dialling ( Chapter 6).
You can only poll with a subaddress/password by using speed dialling. If you do
not require a subaddress/password, you can retrieve the document without
having to enter these numbers.
• If the other party is using a Canon fax machine and their unit does not support
subaddress/password transactions, ask them to set the polling ID on their fax
machine to 255 or 11111111 binary.
• You can poll several fax machines in one operation. Each polling operation can
retrieve documents from as many as 116 fax numbers.
• The subaddress/password must be an ITUT standard subaddress/password.