Muratec MFX-1500 manual What’s inside this section, Quick introduction to fax in general

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A quick introduction to fax in general	................................ 1.1
General precautions	1.2
Make sure it’s all out of the packaging	............................... 1.3
What are all the parts?	1.4
What do the keys do?	1.6
Setting up	1.9
EasyStart	1.18
Sending faxes	1.21
Receiving faxes	1.29
Making copies	1.31

A quick introduction to fax in general

What is a “fax document”?

Simply put, a “fax document” is anything a fax user wants to fax to someone else.

It can be just one page or as many pages as you need. It can be text, a photograph or even your child’s latest drawing!

What is a “fax number”?

Because your fax operates on standard phone lines, a “fax number” is just a regular phone number and, because your fax is also a high-quality, full-featured telephone, your fax number can be your regular phone number. You can — but this isn’t necessary — dedicate a phone number to your fax machine, letting you use one number for ordinary voice calls and one just for fax.

What are resolution and grayscale?

Just as cars are measured by engine size and stereo systems are measured by watts per channel, so fax machines are measured by resolution and grayscale. So let’s talk about these for a moment. Resolution refers to the sharpness of a fax transmission. It’s expressed in lines per inch (lpi). An international agency has defined three specific levels of resolution:

∙Normal (203 horizontal × 98 vertical lpi)

∙Fine (203 × 196 lpi)

∙Superfine (203 × 392 lpi).

Similarly, one can judge a fax transmission by its number of grayscale levels, or shades of gray — really, halftones such as you might see in a newspaper photo. It’s likely most of your fax documents will be dark text on white paper. However, when you want to send photographs and other shaded items, you can set your fax machine to transmit in 64-level grayscale. (And for just copying and not faxing, you can use 128-level grayscale for even more enhanced image quality.)

So why not set your fax machine to use superfine or grayscale for all transmissions?

Because these settings make your machine send more information, making transmissions last longer and (on long-distance calls) driving up your phone bills. That’s why, as you’ll see, we’ve made it easy for you to set your fax machine for the most efficient, and truest, transmission of the types of documents you send!

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