Selecting Auto or Manual

Receive Mode for incoming faxes

Before you select the auto or manual Receive Mode setting for incoming faxes, review the setup information in your Installation Guide to make sure your system is cabled correctly. Then make your selection based on the following.

 

Choose

If This Is Your Situation...

this setting

 

 

A separate telephone number for receiving fax calls

Auto.

only (no voice calls).

 

One telephone number for both phone and fax

Manual.

calls, and no telephone answering machine.

 

One telephone number for both phone and fax

Auto.

calls, and you do have a telephone answering

 

machine.

 

One telephone number for both phone and fax

Auto, and click the

calls, and you subscribe to a distinctive ringing

Distinctive Ring

service from your telephone company.

button in the

 

Settings box.

 

 

Changing the number of rings to answer

When the receive mode is set to Auto, HP OfficeJet answers the call automatically, after a specified number of rings.

NTo change the setting, click the arrow to the right of the Rings to Answer box to show the desired number, then click on the number.

Answering machines also have a rings-to-answer feature. If you have an answering machine connected (according to scenario 3 in the Installation Guide), make sure the number of Rings to Answer in this dialog box is set to a higher number than that of your answering machine.

The HP OfficeJet "listens" while the answering machine plays its greeting. If the HP OfficeJet detects fax tones, it will cut off the answering machine and receive the fax.

￿￿￿￿