Muratec MFX-1500 Code communication, Code an introduction, Setting up or changing F-Code boxes

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F-Code communication

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 agency that maintains international telecommunications standards; for more information, see the Glossary that begins on page 3.18) has now created a fax industry standard for using sub-addressingand password-based communications with not only other Muratec fax machines but also other makers’ machines. One name for 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: think 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; the Mail 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 use ITU-Tsub-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 use 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 password 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-Tsub- address for this to work. (However, use of the password itself is optional if you 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-Tstandard 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 is 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	or	Select F-Code Box
		01: No Number Stored		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	or	Select F-Code Box
03: No Number Stored		03:Muratec America_

Note: Your machine can create up to 50 F-Code boxes. Each can store up to 30 documents.

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