D R D. One of

OneLine + distinctive ring detection

Many phone companies now offer their customers a special service which makes it pos- sible for one phone line to do the work of two.

With this service, you physically still have one phone line, but, electronically, you have two phone numbers. Your phone recognizes these different numbers and rings differ- ently for each one.

For example, this makes it easy for you to have both a business number and a home number on one phone line, so you can answer one with Jane Doe Consulting, and the other with Hello. This works because you can tell the difference between the distinc- tive patterns of the two rings.

Your fax machine is also smart enough to tell the difference between two different num- bers that are ringing it. All you have to do is set up your machine for the OneLine + distinctive ring detection (D R D) feature.

In order to use OneLine + D R D,your phone company must set up your distinctive ring service. When it does, it will assign a ring pattern. For example, the standard telephone ring is 2 seconds on (ringing) and 4 seconds off (silent),after which it repeatsitself.

Your fax has eight possible distinctive ring patterns for use with OneLine +

them should work with your phone company s D R D service. This chart lists the patterns:

Pattern

One complete ring pattern (seconds)

 

 

A

0.8 on, 0.4 off, 0.8 on, 4.0 off

 

 

B

0.4 on, 0.2 off, 0.4 on, 0.2 off, 0.8 on, 4.0 off

C

0.3 on, 0.2 off, 1.0 on, 0.2 off, 0.3 on, 4.0 off

D

1.0 on, 0.5 off, 1.0 on, 3.5 off

E

0.5 on, 0.5 off, 0.5 on, 0.5 off, 1.0 on, 3.0 off

F

0.5 on, 0.5 off, 1.0 on, 0.5 off, 0.5 on, 3.0 off

G

0.4 on, 0.6 off, 0.4 on, 4.6 off

H

1.5 on, 0.5 off, 0.5 on, 3.5 off

For example: pattern

C is 0.3 seconds ringing, 0.2 seconds silent, 1 second ringing, 0.2

seconds silent, 0.3 seconds ringing and 4 seconds silent. Then it goes back to the first 0.3-second ring and starts over.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advanced features

To use D R D on your fax machine:

1

Contact your phone company to make sure it has set up D R D service for you. If

 

possible, also find out which distinctive ring pattern the phone company has

 

assigned you.

 

 

 

 

2

When your machine is MFX-1300;Press Program key,B,2,1,4, ENTER.

 

When your machine is MFX-1700;Press Program key,B,2,1,5, ENTER.

 

The LCD shows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DRD

 

 

:Off

 

 

 

 

 

 

/

/Enter

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

Press

or

until the mode you want appears.

 

Here, we ve chosen On.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DRD

 

 

:On

 

 

 

 

 

 

/

/Enter

 

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

Press ENTER.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ring Pattern

:A

 

 

 

 

 

 

/

/Enter

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

Press

or

until the pattern you want appears.

 

Here, we ve chosen C .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ring Pattern

:C

 

 

 

 

 

 

/

/Enter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 Press ENTER to set your machine to the displayed ring pattern.

Important:

If your telephone company gives you only very general ring pattern speci-

 

fications, or if you encounter a problem while using your machine s D R D

 

feature, please try ALL of the listed ring patterns. If you still have a

 

problem aftertrying all of the patterns, please call the Muratec Customer

 

Support Center. (From the United States, call 800-347-3296.

Important:

W ith your machine set for using D R D, it won t respond to any ring pattern

 

other than the one you selected above. To reset the fax so it will respond

 

once again to normal rings, repeat steps 2 4, above except, in step 3,

 

toggleitto Off. Your fax will now respond normally.

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