Muratec M880, M840, M860 manual Sending Faxes, Some Guidelines, Things not to put in your fax

Getting Started

Sending Faxes

Some Guidelines

While you’ll probably be sending normal-sized documents the vast majority of the time, you can fax a piece of paper as small as a notepad sheet or nearly a meter long!

To be precise, the acceptable dimensions (width ⋅ length) are: Single-sheet transmission:

Maximum: 216 mm ⋅ 900 mm

Minimum: 120 mm ⋅ 100 mm Multiple-sheet transmission:

Maximum: 216 mm ⋅ 279 mm

Minimum: 148 mm ⋅ 105 mm

Things not to put in your fax

To help avoid troubles ranging from paper jams to out-and-out damage to your machine, please don’t insert:

•Folded, curled, torn, wrinkled or very thin pages

•Documents carrying staples, glue, tape, paper clips or still-wet correction fluid

•“Sticky notes” (or documents with “sticky note” attached)

•Cardboard, newspaper or fabric

•Pages with duplicating carbon on either side.

•Credit cards or similar small, thick items

Some thoughts on resolution, grayscale and contrast

Use mode/enter to select the proper resolution.

•Norm (Normal) resolution is suitable for most typed documents and simple drawings.

•Fine (Fine) resolution is ideal for maps, moderately complicated drawings, floorplans or handwritten documents.

•SFine (Superfine) resolution reproduces the detail of extremely complicated drawings or line art.

•Gray (Grayscale) resolution is used to capture halftones in photographs or drawings.

Note: You can send in superfine mode to any fax machine with Group 3 superfine; other fax machines will receive a superfine transmission in fine mode. You can send in grayscale mode to any Group 3 machine, even those without grayscale transmission capabilities.

Contrast

Use contrast/cancel to select the proper contrast.

•Normal ---- Suited to most documents.

•Light ---- Lightens overly dark, muddy originals.

•Dark ---- Darkens weak, “washed-out” images.

Note: Until becoming accustomed to using the Light and Dark settings, you might tend to confuse them. Just remember what we say above ---- “Light

lightens” and “Dark darkens” ---- to keep it straight!

Entering a pause character when dialing

Your fax machine provides special dialing characters which you may find useful. We’ll discuss most of them later (see page 2.4), but you may need to know now about the pause character. Some long-distance systems require dialing pauses, and pauses also can be useful when you’re dialing through special telephone exchanges.

To insert a pause character, just press redial/pause (after you’ve dialed at least one other character). -- ⁄ (the pause character) will appear on the display.

Each pause you enter lasts for a factory-set five seconds. For example, pressing 9, redial/pause, 123456789 dials 9 [5-seconds] 123456789.

Important: Each pause uses two of the characters you’re allowed in a number.

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