Fax Settings

Purpose:

To configure the basic fax settings.

NOTE: Values marked by an asterisk (*) are the factory default menu settings.

Values:

Receive Mode

Telephone

Automatic fax reception is turned off. You can

 

 

receive a fax by picking up the handset of the

 

 

external telephone, pressing the remote receive code,

 

 

and then pressing .

 

 

 

 

Fax*

Automatically receives faxes.

 

 

 

 

Telephone/

When the printer receives an incoming fax, the

 

Fax

external telephone rings for the time specified in

 

 

Auto Receive Fax/Tel, and then the printer

 

 

automatically receives a fax. If an incoming call is not

 

 

a fax, the printer beeps from the internal speaker

 

 

indicating that the call is a telephone call.

 

 

 

 

Answer

The printer can share a telephone line with an

 

Machine/

answering machine. In this mode, the printer will

 

Fax

monitor the fax signal and pick up the line if there

 

 

are fax tones. If the phone communication is using

 

 

serial transmission in your country (such as Germany,

 

 

Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Italy, France

 

 

and Switzerland), this mode is not supported.

 

 

 

 

DRPD

Before using the Distinctive Ring Pattern Detection

 

 

(DRPD) option, a distinctive ring service must be

 

 

installed on your telephone line by the telephone

 

 

company. After the telephone company has provided

 

 

a separate number for faxing with a distinctive ring

 

 

pattern, configure the fax setup to monitor for that

 

 

specific ring pattern.

Auto Receive Fax Sets the interval at which the printer goes into the fax receive mode after receiving an incoming call.

Auto Receive

Sets the interval at which the printer goes into the fax receive

Tel/Fax

mode after the external telephone receives an incoming call.

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