Autodialer

Your fax machine s autodialer stores your most frequently called phone and fax num- bers for instant recall so you don t have to remember them. It s something like an electronic phone book.

Autodialer basics

How do you autodial?

There are two kinds of autodialer numbers. The difference between the two is how you dial them:

Type

How to dial

Amount stored

One-touch

Press one of the keys, marked 01 55

55

 

on the left side of the control panel

 

Speed-dial

Press SPEED DIAL/TEL INDEX followed by a

145

 

three-digit identifier, from 001 to 145

 

Total amount of numbers stored

200

Location IDs and the EasyDial directory

When you store numbers in your autodialer, you can give these numbers descriptive names, such as Chicago office or Billing department . Your machine calls this name a Location ID.

Your machine s autodialer sorts these location IDs alphabetically. Using your EasyDial directory, you can look up these numbers by their descriptive names, just as if you were using a phone book.

We ll explain how to store the numbers and location IDs in the next few pages. The EasyDial directory is discussed in detail on page 3.8.

Call groups

As you set up your autodialer, you may also want to set up call groups. These are setsof phone numbers that make it easy to send the same fax to many different locations. For example, one call group may include all of your clients in one city, another group may include all of your employees and another may include all your vendors.

Your fax machine can store as many as 200 numbers in up to 32 call groups.

See also Call group dialing, page 3.7.

Advanced features

Special Dialing Characters

Your fax machine allows you to enter special dialing characters when programming the autodialer.These characters include hyphens, which make phone numbers easier to read, and special characters needed for international calls.

The chart below briefly describes each of these characters. It also tells you what keys to press on your fax machine to store those characters in your autodialer:

Note: To use DIALING OPTIONS key, you should assign it to a Soft key in advance. (See page 3.16.)

Char.

What it does

Keystroke(s)

 

 

 

Makes long numbers easier to read.

DIALING OPTIONS (once)

Doesn t change fax machine operation.

 

 

 

 

/

(Has no effect in the United States.)

DIALING OPTIONS (twice)

!

Tells your fax machine to pause until it

DIALING OPTIONS (3 times)

hears a dial tone.

 

 

 

 

 

Enters a pause. Each pause lasts two

 

–/

seconds (or whatever length you set; see

REDIAL/PAUSE [after you enter

page 4.5). Each pause uses two of the

at least one other character]

 

characters you can store in one phone

 

 

number.

 

 

 

 

 

If your fax machine is on a pulse (not

 

 

tone-dialing) line, switches from pulse-

DIALING OPTIONS (4 times)

 

dialing to tone ( DTMF )-dialing. Use after

–!

 

the actual phone number but before any

 

 

characters (such as a long-distance

 

 

carrier s access code) which must be in

 

 

DTMF tone. Do not use on a tone line.

 

 

 

 

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