Polling (Requesting a Fax)

Polling (Requesting a Fax)

Polling allows you to call another fax machine and have it send a document (previously loaded in its feeder or in memory) to your machine without assistance from the operator of the other machine.

Note: Polling is useful when you want the receiving fax machine, not the transmitting fax machine, to bear the cost of the call.

♦To use the polling function, the other machine must be capable of being polled. Before polling, make sure the other machine is set up to receive your polling request.

Enabling the polling key

To use Polling, you must first set “POLLING” to “YES” and select a Rapid Key for use as the polling key in the Option Settings as explained on pages 136 and 138.

Using polling to request fax transmission

1 Dial the fax machine that you wish to poll using one of the following

methods:

•Enter the full number using the numeric keys.

• Press

SPEED DIAL

and enter a 3-digit Speed Dial number.

•Pick up the handset (or press SPEAKER ) and dial the full number or press a Rapid Key. Wait for the fax answerback tone.

•Press or until the name (or number) of the other party appears in the display

2 Press the Rapid Key that you specified as the polling key in the Option

Settings.

•If you used the handset, replace it when POLLING appears in the display. Reception will begin.

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