Chapter 5

4.If you are currently on the phone with the sender, instruct the sender to press Start on their fax machine.

5.When you hear fax tones from a sending fax machine, do the following:

a.

Touch Fax, and then select Start Black or Start Color.

b.

After the printer begins to receive the fax, you can hang up the phone or

 

remain on the line. The phone line is silent during fax transmission.

Set up backup fax

Depending on your preference and security requirements, you can set up the printer to store all the faxes it receives, only the faxes it receives while the printer is in an error condition, or none of the faxes it receives.

The following backup fax modes are available:

On

The default setting. When Backup fax is On, the printer stores all

 

 

received faxes in memory. This enables you to reprint up to eight of the

 

 

most recently printed faxes if they are still saved in memory.

 

 

NOTE: When printer memory is low, it overwrites the oldest, printed

 

 

faxes as it receives new faxes. If the memory becomes full of unprinted

 

 

faxes, the printer stops answering incoming fax calls.

 

 

NOTE: If you receive a fax that is too large, such as a very detailed

 

 

color photo, it might not be stored in memory due to memory limitations.

 

 

 

On Error Only

Causes the printer to store faxes in memory only if an error condition

 

 

exists that prevents the printer from printing the faxes (for example, if the

 

 

printer runs out of paper). The printer continues to store incoming faxes

 

 

as long as there is memory available. (If the memory becomes full, the

 

 

printer stops answering incoming fax calls.) When the error condition is

 

 

resolved, the faxes stored in memory print automatically, and then they

 

 

are deleted from memory.

 

 

 

Off

Faxes are never stored in memory. For example, you might want to turn

 

 

off Backup fax for security purposes. If an error condition occurs that

 

 

prevents the printer from printing (for example, the printer runs out of

 

 

paper), the printer stops answering incoming fax calls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE: If backup fax is enabled and you turn the printer off, all faxes stored in memory are deleted, including any unprinted faxes that you might have received while the printer was in an error condition. You must contact the senders to ask them to resend any unprinted faxes. For a list of the faxes you have received, print the Fax Log. The Fax Log is not deleted when the printer is turned off.

To set backup fax from the printer control panel

1.Touch (right arrow), and then select Setup.

2.Touch Fax Setup, and then select Advanced Fax Setup.

3.Touch Backup Fax Reception.

4.Touch On, On Error Only, or Off.

Reprint received faxes from memory

If you set the Backup fax mode to On, the received faxes are stored in memory, whether the printer has an error condition or not.

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