Beyond the basics
2.33
The other side of the coin: being polled
Not only can you poll, you also can be polled. To set up a document for regular or database
polling by another Muratec or Murata machine:
1. If your fax machine is set for Tel Ready reception, change it to Fax Ready
reception, causing the Auto Answer light to glow (see page 1.30).
Important: Your machine can’t be polled if it’s in Tel Ready mode.
2. Insert the document.
3. Adjust resolution and contrast, if necessary. (This is because your fax machine will
be transmitting to the machine doing the polling.)
4. Change to the Fax mode, then press PROGRAM, D, 1, ENTER. The display will
show:
Store Polling Doc
File No. _
If you are storing this document for regular polling, skip to step 6.
If you are storing this document for database polling, proceed to step 5.
5. Use the numeric keypad to enter a one-or two-digit database file number to
identify the stored document.
6. Press ENTER. Your fa x will scan the document into memory and return to standby
mode.
Erasing a stored polling document
To erase from your machine’s memory a document you’ve stored for regular or database
polling by another machine:
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. Press PROGRAM, D, 2, ENTER. The display will show:
Erase Polling Doc
File No. _
If erasing a document set up for regular polling, skip to step 4.
If erasing a document set up for database polling, proceed to step 3.
3. Use the numeric keypad to enter a one- or two-digit database file number to
identify the stored document.
4. Press ENTER. Your fax ma c hin e will erase the document from memory.
Printing a stored polling document
To print, without erasing it, a document you’ve stored for either regular or
database polling:
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. Press PROGRAM, D, 3, ENTER. The display will sho w:
Print Polling Doc.
File No. _
If printing a document set up for regular polling, skip to step 4.
If printing a document set up for database polling, proceed to step 3.
3. Use the numeric keypad to enter a one- or two-digit database file number to
identify the stored document.
4. Press ENTER. Your fa x ma c hin e will print the document.
Limiting polling access to your fax machine
Your fax machine’s closed network setting (see page 2.44) works for polling, as well.
If a calling fax doesn’t “present” the proper passcode, it cannot poll from your fax.
Note: However, if you’re using the Block Junk Fax feature (see pages 2.45–2.46), even
incoming calls that meet the passcode test must come from appropriate phone
numbers.
OneLine + distinctive ring detection (DRD)
It used to be that, to have two phone numbers, you had to have two phone lines (and the
more expensive phone equipment that usually involves). But many phone companies now
offer their customers a special service which makes it possible for one phone line to do the
work of two — a real boon in this day of the “SOHO” (small office/home office).
With this service, you physically still have one phone line; but, electronically, you have two
phone numbers. Each number rings your phone in a different way than the other number
does.
This makes it easy for you to have both (for example) 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.”
You get the idea: this works because you’re smart enough to tell the difference between the
distinctive patterns of the two rings.
But what if your fax machine, too, could be smart enough? Then it could ignore one of the
two numbers, “knowing” that it’s supposed to answer only the other.
Well, as you’ve probably guessed by now, that’s exactly what your fax machine can do. All
you have to do is give it a little help at the beginning and be gin to e n joy th e b en e fits of its
OneLine
+
distinctive ring detection (DRD) feature.