DISTINCTIVE RINGING
Distinctive ringing in FAX mode
Distinctive ringing is a service offered by some local telephone companies which allows you to use up to four different telephone numbers, each with a different ringing pattern, on your regular single line. If you subscribe to a distinctive ringing service, you can set your fax to automatically answer when it detects one of those ringing patterns, thereby allowing you to use the number corresponding to that pattern as an exclusive fax number.
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To use distinctive ringing, you must subscribe to a distinctive ringing service from your local phone company. Do not make this setting if you do not subscribe to a distinctive ringing service.
Your fax may not be compatible with some distinctive ringing services.
When using this feature, you must set the reception mode of your fax to FAX as described in "Receiving a Document" in Chapter 3. When your designated fax number is dialed, your fax will automatically answer and begin reception after two rings. Note that other devices on the same line will also ring until your fax answers. If one of your other numbers is dialed, the fax will ring; however, it will not answer.
To use distinctive ringing, select one of the ringing patterns below for your fax by pressing the panel keys as shown on the following page. The selections are as follows:
1. RING PATTERN 1: | Two short rings. |
2. RING PATTERN 2: | One short, one long, and one short ring. |
3. RING PATTERN 3: | Two short rings and one long ring. |
4. STANDARD RING: | Your standard (normal) ringing pattern. |
5. OFF SETTING: | Answer all ringing patterns (this turns |
| distinctive ringing off). |
Your fax has been set to "5" at the factory.
INITIAL SETTINGS |
