Panasonic KX-FPC161 manual Distinctive Ring, Using with a voice mail service

Distinctive Ring

Using with a voice mail service!

Important:

●When you have a single telephone line and subscribe to a telephone company’s voice mail service, you must also subscribe to the Distinctive Ring Service if you want to receive faxes automatically as well as voice messages. For more information about telephone services, contact your telephone company.

When you subscribe to Distinctive Ring Service, your telephone company will assign you a new fax number and will also tell you the assigned ring pattern. Please complete the following setup on your fax machine to identify the assigned ring pattern.

1 Press		MENU .
		Display:	SYSTEM	SET UP
			PRESS NAVI.[I H]
2	Press	, then 3	1 .
			RING DETECTION
			MODE=B	[±]

Press	or	to select the ring pattern
3 assigned by the telephone company.
A: Standard ring (one long ring)			MENU	SET

B:Double ring (two short rings) (default setting)

C:Triple ring (short-long-short-rings)

D:Other triple ring (short-short-long rings) OFF: Turns off the feature

4

5

Press SET .

SETUP ITEM [ ]

Press MENU to exit the program.

Note:

●Once you have programmed the assigned ring pattern into the fax machine, turn AUTO ANSWER off so that the fax machine is in TEL mode.

●In TEL mode, the fax machine will recognize incoming faxes on the first ring pattern and answer automatically. For phone calls, the fax machine will ring as a normal call.

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