Advanced fax
F-Code transmission and polling
With F-Code, your machine can send secure transmissions, perform relay broadcast
initiations and even poll from other
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-equipped machines, regardless of manu-
facturer.
You can do this two wa ys:
• Using the programmable one-touch key (see pages 3.54–3.60).
• Entering the
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sub-address and password directly, which is what we’ll
describe here.
Note: For F-Code communication to work, three things must be true:
• The remote fax machine must support
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sub-addressing
• The remote fax must have a mailbox with an
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sub-address created
on it
• You must know the
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sub-address and password (if any) for the
remote machine’s mailbox
F-Code transmission
1Place the document and select the resolution and contrast you require.
2If you want to toggle between manual transmission and memory transmis-
sion, press
MEMORY TRANSMIT
.
3Press
MENU
and select “F-Code Tx”.
4Press [Enter].
5Use the numeric keypad to enter the appropri-
ate sub-address in the remote machine.
Note: If you make a mistake, press [Clear] to
erase the character, then enter the cor-
rect number.
6Press [Enter].
7Use the numeric keypad to enter the password.
Note: If this sub-address does not have a password, skip to step 8.
8Press [Enter].
9Enter the fax number either by pressing a one-
touch key, entering a speed-dial number or
dialing from the numeric keypad.
Important: Do not press
START
,if you want
to delay this transmission.
10 What you do now depends on when you want
the transmission to begin.
• To ha ve it begin now, skip to step 13.
• To dela y it, go on to step 11.
11 Press
MENU
, select “Delayed Tx” and then
press [Enter].
The
LCD
shows (see right):
12 Use the numeric keypad to enter the day and
time when the transmission should begin, then
press [Enter].
13 Press
START
.
If in step 10 you chose an immediate transmission, your fax machine begins dialing.
If you chose a delayed command, the machine shows “Reserved” on the
LCD
, indicat-
ing that it has stored the command in memory and will complete it later.
F-Code polling
1Press
MENU
and select “FCodePolling”.
2Press [Enter].
3Use the numeric keypad to enter the appropri-
ate sub-address in the remote machine.
Note: If you make a mistake, press [Clear] to
erase the character, then enter the correct number.
4Press [Enter].
5Use the numeric keypad to enter the password.
Note: If this sub-address does not have a password, skip to next step .
6Press [Enter].