Answering System
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Automatic Answering Operation
When the unit answers a call, a greeting message is played and the caller’s
message is recorded.

Setting the Unit to Answer Calls

Press [ANSWER ON] to turn on the Answering System.
• The indicator lights and the unit announces “Answer
set” and current day and time. If “Answer set. Set
time” is heard, set the date and time (p. 14 ).
• The unit will announce the remaining recording
time if it is less than 3minu tes.
• When no recording time is available, you will
need to erase any unnecessary messages
before new messages can be recorded (p. 62).
The unit can indicate that memory is full in the
following ways:
—“ ” will flash on the base unit and the
ANSWER ON indicator will flash rapidly until
you erase a message.
—The unit will announce “Memory full” when you
press [ANSWER ON], [GREETING REC], or
[MEMO], and after playing back messages or recording a message.
• If you do not want the unit to answer calls, press [ANSWER ON] again to turn off
the Answering System. The indicator light goes out and “Answer off” is heard.
• You can also turn on the Answering System remotely from an outside phone
(p. 66).
• To turn the Answering System off, press [0] in step 3. “Answer off” is heard.
• The total recording time of all messages (greeting, incoming and memo) is
about 16 minutes (about 8 minutes in “Enhanced recording” mode, p. 24). If
messages are recorded in noisy rooms, the time may be shortened by up to
3min utes.
• To select the caller’s recording time, see page 22.
• A maximum of 64 messages (including greeting and memo message) can be
recorded.
1Press [MENU].
2Press Select at “Message play”.
3Press [8] to turn on the Answering System.
•“Answer set” is heard.
4Press [OFF].
Base Unit
[ANSWER ON] and Indicator
FULL
Handset