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Table of Contents

Initial Preparation

Accessories Included accessories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Accessory information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Help Button Help function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Finding the Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Controls Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Setup Removing the information leaflet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Recording paper load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Recording paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Date and time, your logo and facsimile telephone number. . . . . . . . . 13
Volumes Adjusting volumes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Telephone

Making and Voice calls - making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Answering Calls
Voice calls - answering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
RECALL and PAUSE buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
EASY DIAL Storing names and telephone numbers in the EASYDIAL directory. 20
Making a voice call using the EASY DIALdirectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Caller ID Caller ID service from your phone company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
(KX-FP185 only) Calling back using caller information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Storing caller information in the EASY DIAL directory . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Erasing caller information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Voice Contact Talking to the other party after fax transmission or reception . . . . . . 29

Fax

Sending Faxes Sending a fax manually/using the EASYDIAL directory. . . . . . . . . . 30
Sending a fax with the voice guide (KX-FP185 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Sending from memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
One time broadcast transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Broadcast transmission to pre-programmed parties. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Receiving Setting the unit to receive faxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Faxes TELmode (answering all calls manually) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
FAX ONLYmode (all calls are received as faxes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using the unit with an answering machine (KX-FP181 only) . . . . . . . 42
To use with a computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
TEL/FAX mode (receiving voice calls with rings and fax calls
without rings when you are near the unit). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Turning the AUTO ANSWER mode on remotely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Extension telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Receive polling (retrieving a fax placed on another fax machine). . . 48
Pager call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49