5. Distinctive Ring

5.1Distinctive Ring service from your phone company

This service is convenient if you wish to have a different number for your fax machine and telephone, even when you use them on a single telephone line.

Distinctive Ring is a service offered by your local telephone company which allows you to use several telephone numbers on one telephone line. When a call is made to one of your phone numbers, the telephone company sends a ring pattern to your telephone line to indicate which number the call is intended for. By setting up this unit for Distinctive Ring, you can make the fax machine automatically start fax reception when a call comes to the fax number.

To use this service, you must subscribe to the Distinctive Ring service offered by your local telephone company.

5.2Using two or more phone numbers on a single telephone line

5.2.1Activating the Distinctive Ring feature

{SET} {MENU}

1Press {MENU}.

2Press {#}, then {3}{1}.

3Press {1} to select ON.

4Press {SET}.

5Press {MENU}.

How phone calls and faxes are received

If the incoming call is for the fax number, the fax machine will ring with the assigned ring pattern and automatically start fax reception.

If the incoming call is for the phone number:

the fax machine will keep on ringing in TEL mode.

the fax machine will record a voice message in TAM/FAX mode.

fax communication will be attempted in FAX ONLY mode.

Note:

LBe sure to select a tone (Tone 1 to 3) for the handset ringer tone (page 76). If you select a melody, you will not be able to distinguish lines by their ringers.

5.3Using three or more phone numbers on a single telephone line

You may wish to use three or more phone numbers for a single telephone line. In order to distinguish which number the call was addressed to, a different ring pattern must be assigned for each number.

Example: Using three phone numbers

Telephone

Ring pattern

Use

number

 

 

012 1234

Standard

Personal

 

ring

 

 

 

 

012 5678

Double ring

Business

 

 

 

012 9876

Triple ring

Fax

 

 

 

To use one phone number for the fax, program the ring pattern assigned for the fax in feature #32 (page 56). In the example, the ring pattern assigned for fax is a triple ring, so you should program C(triple ring).

Ring pattern

 

Settings in

 

 

feature #32

Standard ring (one long

A

ring)

 

 

1st ring

2nd ring

 

Double ring (two short rings)

B

1st ring

2nd ring

 

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Panasonic KX-FPG378, KX-FPG379 Distinctive Ring service from your phone company, Activating the Distinctive Ring feature