Samsung SF3000T manual Fax Theory

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YOUR NEW MACHINE

Fax Theory

Thank you for your purchase of this multi-function fax machine. We want you to get maximum use from your new equipment, therefore we would like to explain a little bit about FAX machines and how they work. This will help when reading the rest of this manual and becoming acquainted with FAX machines in general, plus all the features available with your new machine.

Most people donÕt realize it, but the fax machine has been around in various forms since the time of the invention of the telegraph in the mid-nineteenth century. Early fax machines were large, slow, and difficult to operate. Equipment and techniques for sending copies of documents across long distances have improved over the years, and todayÕs fax machine is small, fast, and easy to operate.

A fax machine may appear complex, but in reality, modern fax machines are merely a combination of several very familiar machines.

First of all, faxing makes use of processes very much like an office copier. When you send a fax document to someone, the machine makes an internal copy of it (a facsimile, hence the term ÒfaxÓ), and converts that copy to electronic signals which we call ÒdataÓ. The data is then sent out over the telephone line as a series of audible tones. When you receive a fax from someone else, the copy process simply converts these tones from the telephone line back to data, and then to printed output.

Fax machines depend very much on telephone technology, since they must dial telephone numbers, answer calls, and exchange fax data (their version of ÒspeechÓ) over the phone line with other fax machines.

SEND-

DOCUMENT

TELEPHONE LINE

FAX DATA

RECEIVE-

DOCUMENT

Basic FAX Operation

To send a fax document, you tell the fax machine the telephone number to call by entering the number on a Touch-Tone keypad, just like a telephone. You may also store frequently-called numbers in the machineÕs various memory locations. This makes dialing faster, more accurate, and allows your machine to ÒrememberÓ telephone numbers for performing many automatic functions.

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