Muratec MFX-1500 manual Basics of broadcasting, Delayed broadcasting

Beyond the basics

Broadcasting

The basics of broadcasting

The fastest way to fax one document to multiple recipients is broadcasting — and your fax machine has very powerful broadcasting capabilities. You can use broadcasting from any function requiring the entry of a fax number! That means you can perform delayed broadcasting (see right column), SecureMail broadcasting (see pages 2.38–2.41) and even broadcasting to “hub” units for relay broadcast initiation (see pages 2.19– 2.20).

In an ordinary broadcast, you send as you normally would, except for one simple change: you just add more fax numbers! You can enter up to 220 numbers (20 normally dialed numbers plus either 200 autodialer numbers or one call group with all 200 autodialer numbers).

We’ll assume you’ve become familiar with regular fax transmission, and shorten the instructions a bit so you can more readily see the differences.

1. If the machine is in Fax mode, proceed to step 2.

If it is in Copy mode, press COPY/FAX to change to Fax mode.

2. Insert the document and make any necessary adjustments as usual.

3. Press BROADCAST.

4. Enter the first fax number — a one-touch number, a speed-dial number, a call group or just a regular number dialed from the numeric keypad as usual.

5. To add each successive fax number, press BROADCAST between each one to insert a comma (GROUP DIAL inserts its own comma), then enter the number as in step 4. You can specify up to 220 numbers (see first paragraph, above) for a broadcast.

Press Start

[01],9-5551204,S118

Important: Do not insert a comma after the last fax number.

Note: If you enter characters by mistake, just press CANCEL to clear them before proceeding.

6. Press START. Your fax machine will scan the document into memory and then send it to each number or call group you’ve entered.

The main idea is: when it’s time within an operation for entering the fax number to which you’re to send your document, you enter multiple numbers until you’ve

either reached 220 numbers or finished dialing all you want to dial for this document.

Delayed broadcasting

What if you want the broadcast to happen later? That’s the purpose of setting up a delayed broadcast.

Note: Actually, we’re jumping the gun a bit here; the main discussion of delayed commands comes up in “Delayed transmission” (pages 2.21–2.23). You may wish to read that material before proceeding.

1. [Same as steps 1–5 of “The basics of broadcasting,” (left column).]

2. Press COMMUNICATION OPTIONS, ENTER.

3. Use the numeric keypad to enter the day of the month and time when you want the fax to perform the broadcast. Here, we’ve set it to occur at

10:15 PM on the 17th.

Delayed

Enter Time: 17/22:15

When the entry is complete, press ENTER.

4. Press START. Your machine will return to its normal standby mode, while showing this on the display:

** Reserved ** Sep 27 1998 17:17

This means your fax machine is “reserved” for the delayed broadcast you just programmed.

If you have set the machine for memory transmission (see page 1.23) from the ADF, it will scan the document into memory, after which you can use the machine normally.

If you have set the machine for non-memory transmission from the ADF, the machine can receive faxes but can’t transmit until after the delayed broadcast occurs.

Note: Transmission from the FBS is always memory transmission.

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