Muratec MFX-1500E, Series 41500E operating instructions Autodialer basics

Autodialer

Your fax machine’s autodialer stores your most frequently called phone and fax numbers for instant recall so you don’t have to remember them. It’s something like an electronic phone book.

Autodialer basics

How do you autodial?

There are two kinds of autodialer numbers. The difference between the two is how you dial them:

Type	How to dial	Amount stored
One-touch	Press one of the keys, marked 01–72	72
	on the right side of the control panel
Speed-dial	Press SPEED DIAL/TEL INDEX followed by a	128
	three-digit identifier, from 001 to 128
Total amount of numbers stored		200

Autodialing fax and phone numbers

Your fax machine’s autodialer will hold more than just fax numbers. You can store phone numbers, too.

This is because when you use the autodialer to dial a number, the fax checks to see if there’s a document in its feeder. If there is, the machine dials as a fax machine. If there isn’t, it dials as a phone.

Location IDs and the EasyDial directory

When you store numbers in your autodialer, you can give these numbers descriptive names, such as “Chicago office” or “Billing department”. Your machine calls this name a Location ID.

Your machine’s autodialer sorts these location IDs alphabetically. Using your EasyDial directory, you can look up these numbers by their descriptive names, just as if you were using a phone book.

We’ll explain how to store the numbers and location IDs in the next few pages. The EasyDial directory is discussed in detail on page 2.15.

Beyond the Basics

Special Dialing Characters

Your fax machine allows you to enter special dialing characters when programming the autodialer. These characters include hyphens and dashes, which make phone numbers easier to read, and special characters needed for international calls.

The chart below briefly describes each of these characters. It also tells you what keys to press on your fax machine to store those characters in your autodialer:

Char.	What it does	Keystroke(s)
–	Makes long numbers easier to read.	DIALING OPTIONS (once)
	Doesn’t change fax machine operation.
/	(Has no effect in the United States.)	DIALING OPTIONS (twice)
!	Tells your fax machine to pause until it	DIALING OPTIONS (3 times)
	“hears” a dial tone.
	Enters a pause. Each pause lasts two
–/	seconds (or whatever length you set; see	REDIAL/PAUSE [after you enter
	page 1.18). Each pause uses two of the
		at least one other character]
	characters you can store in one phone
	number.
	If your fax machine is on a pulse (not
	tone-dialing) line, switches from pulse-	DIALING OPTIONS (4 times)
	dialing to tone (“DTMF”)-dialing. Use after
–!
	the actual phone number but before any
	characters (such as a long-distance
	carrier’s access code) which must be in
	DTMF tone. Do not use on a tone line.

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