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F-Code comm unication

F-Code: an introduction

Your fax machine’s database polling (see pages 2.31–2.32) and SecureMail (see
pages 2.38–2.41) features work only with other Muratec models. However, the
ITU-T (part of the United Nations agenc y that main tain s in ter natio n al
telecommunications standards; for more information, see the Glossary that begins
on page 3.18) has now created a fax industry standard for using sub-addressing and
password-based communicati ons with not only other Murate c fax machines but
also other makers’ machines. One name fo r this standard is F-Code, and that is
what we’ll call it in these instructions and on your machine’s display.
How sub-addressing works: t hin k of a mailroom
If you are new to the concept of sub-addressing, think about how one receives mail
addressed to a department within one’s company. For example, mail for
Accounting gets to the mailroom for the entire company; th e M ail Department
then routes the mail to Accounting.
That’s the idea behind sub-addressing. Once your fax and another F-Code-
compatible fax begin their communication, they exchange special F-Code signals
to indicate just where the fax really should go. It’s if the sending fax were saying,
“Take this one and carry it on down the hallway to room 148” and the receiving
fax were replying, “148? OK, will do.”
Now, with F-Code, you can set up an ITU-T-compatible sub-address and password
which lets you use SecureMail and database polling in communication with any
other fax machine, regardless of maker, so long as it, too, uses the F-Code standard
from the ITU-T.
To us e ITU-T sub-addressing and password features, you have to create F-Code
boxes in your machine.

Setting up or changing F-Code boxes

The first step to using the F-Code box is to create F-Code boxes in your fax
machine. This procedure also lets you modify existing F-Code boxes.
Before you set up an F-Code box:
• You must decide how your callers will us e this box — as a bulletin box or a
security box (see “Which type of box?” in the next column).
• If the other person has set a passwor d only, inform that person he or she must
store a sub-address before your communications may use this feature. Each fax
machine in the transaction, yours and the other one, must store an ITU-T sub-
address for this to work. (However, use of the p assword itself is optional if y ou
do not intend to use secure F-Code communications.)
Which type of box?
Before proceeding, make a decision: is this F-Code box to be a bulletin box or a
security box? In essence, the first is for callers’ convenience; the second is for
your convenience.
A bulletin box allows you to store scanned or retrieved documents which callers
can retrieve through polling. For example, your sales branches could call in at any
time to receive a printout of your latest prices. In other words, this is a way to allow
database polling (if necessary, review pages 2.31–2.32) from any fax model that
conforms to the ITU-T standard we call “F-Code.” A bulletin box can hold its
contents indefinitely (as long as the unit has AC power). You can set a password for
the bulletin box to restrict access to it.
A security box works like a normal SecureMail mailbox except that it accepts and
stores ITU-T-standard F-Code secure communication, as opposed to the proprietary
SecureMail discussed earlier in these operating instructions (if necessary, review
pages 2.38–2.41). Of course, you must use a password if this i s to be a security
box; otherwise, there would be no security!
Creating or modifying an F-Code box
1. Keep paper and pen with you as you follow this procedure. As you decide
upon and enter each sub-address (and, if applicable, password or passcode),
write it down (noting to which box the information refers). When you
complete this procedure, keep the printed record in a safe place.
2. If the machine is in Fax mode, proceed to step 3.
If it is in Copy mode, press COPY/FAX to change to Fax mode.
3. Press PROGRAM, P, 1, ENTER. Depending on whether you already have a
name entered for F-Code box 01, the display will show either:
Select F-Code Box
01: No Number Stored or Select F-Code Box
01:NY Branch Office
If this is the F-Code box you want to set, skip to step 5. (However, our
samples from here on will refer to F-Code box 03, rather than 01.)
4. Use the numeric keypad to enter the two-digit number (01–50) of the
F-Code box you wish to create or modify. (Use a leading zero for numbers
below 10.) Here, we’ve entered 0, 3 and see:
Select F-Code Box
03: No Number Stored or Select F-Code Box
03:Muratec America_
Note: Your machine can create up to 50 F-Code boxes. Each can store
up to 30 documents.