What is my fax number?
In most cases, your telephone number is also you r fax number. If you subscribe to the Dis tinctive Ring Pattern
Detection (DRPD) service offered by telephone compani es, then your fax number is the number that you assigned
to the printer. Make sure that you enter the correct distinctive ring pattern for that number in the fax software or in
the Fax Setup menu of the printer control panel.
If you have more than one telephone line, then make sure that you enter the number for the line on which the printer
is connected.
What is my dialing prefix?
The dialing prefix is the number or series of number s that you press before you can dial th e actual fax number or
telephone number. If the printer is an of fice setting or in a private branch exchange, this c an be a specific number
that you need to press so you can make a call outside the office. This can also be a country code or an area code that
you need to enter if you are sending faxes outside of town. This can be very useful if you frequently send faxes to the
same country or area. When you set the dialing prefix in the utility, you do not need to press the number or series of
numbers every time you dial the fax number or telephone number. The pr inter automatically inputs the prefix every
time you dial.
You can enter up to 8 characters as your dialing prefix. The valid characters are the numbers 0-9 and the characters
# and *. If you are using the fax software to ente r the dial prefix, then you may also incl ude the characters period,
comma, star, pound, plus, minus, and parenthesis.
When do I need to set Auto Answer to On?
Set Auto Answer to On if you want the printer to receive faxes automatically.
If the printer is connected to the same telephone lin e with an answering machine, then you mus t set Auto Answer
to On so that you can rece ive both your voice cal ls and your faxes. Ma ke sure that the answ ering machine is set to
pick up on fewer rings than the rin gs set in the printer. This lets the o ther devices pick up the voice calls first. If an
incoming call is a fax, the printer can detect fax signals on the line and takes the call.
How many rings should I set?
If the printer is sharing a line with an ans wering machine, then set the printer t o pick up on the greater number of
rings. Because you have o nly one line, there is no way of distinguishi ng a voice call from an incoming fax. You can
set the number of rings so that the answ ering machine takes the voic e calls and the printer takes the incoming faxes.
If you set the other devices to pick up on fewer rings, then the devices pick up calls first, and your voice calls are
received. If a call is a fax, then the printer can detect it and will take over the call.
If the printer is on a ded icated fax line, t hen you may set the p rinter to pick up on any number of rin gs that you want.
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