Ricoh FAX5600L manual Two-step Transfer, Digital Link

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Two-step Transfer

Relaying

Transfer

Terminal

Station

Osaka

Digital Link

DIGITAL (G4)

G3

D

PSTN (G3)

Nagoya

G3

A

B

C

Sacramento

San Francisco

Tokyo

G3

E

Terminal A

Next

Next

makes a transfer

Transfer

Transfer

F

request

Stn. = C

Stn. = B

Yokohama

If your machine (A), in Sacramento in the above example, does not have access to a digital network, it can use a digital link between San Francisco (B) and Tokyo

(C)to send a fax message to various locations in Japan (D to F). This speeds up communication and reduces costs. Terminals B and C must be G4 fax machines from the same manufacturer, must have the Two-step Transfer feature, and must have programmed a number known as the Next Transfer Station.

The Next Transfer Station is a feature that is provided when you install the optional G4 ISDN kit. For details on this feature and how to program it, see page 235.

To start the operation, the user at terminal A makes a transfer request, specifying terminal B as the transfer station and stations D to F as end receivers. B will send the message to C, and C will then distribute it to D, E, and F.

Note that the following programming must be done in terminals B and C if Two-step Transfer is to work using a digital link.

❐The ID codes of terminals A, B, and C must be the same.

❐The fax number of terminal C must be stored in terminal B as the Next Transfer Station.

❐The fax number of terminal B must be stored in terminal C as the Next Transfer Station.

❐Terminals B and C may need adjustment; contact a service technician.

If the line between A and B is Group 3 (analog), then the lines from C to D, C to E, and C to F must also be Group 3, unless the operation was done using Groups stored in terminal C; in that case, the destinations (D, E, F) can be a mixture of Group 3 and Group 4 terminals.

If the line between A and B is digital, the destinations can be a mixture of Group 3 and Group 4 terminals.

Cross-reference

Transfer Request: see page 87.Next Transfer Station: see page 235.

ID Code: see page 85.

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