Sharp MX-FX13 appendix Polling memory, Your machine Other machine

TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION USING THE POLLING FUNCTION

The polling function allows your machine to call a fax machine that has a document ready for transmission and initiate reception of the document. You can also perform the reverse operation: scan a document into the memory of your machine so that another machine can call your machine and initiate reception of the document.

Calling the sending machine and asking the sending machine to fax a document is called "polling". Scanning a document into memory and automatically sending it when the receiving machine calls and "polls" your machine is called "polling memory". This function can only be used if the other machine is a Super G3 or G3 machine and supports the polling function.

For information on polling and polling memory using F-codes, see "HOW F-CODE POLLING MEMORY WORKS"

Note (page 54). Normal polling and memory polling are explained in this chapter.

Polling

This function allows your machine to call another fax machine and initiate reception of a document in that machine. A timer setting can also be specified to have the operation take place at night or at another specified time. (See "TIMER TRANSMISSION" on page 33.)

Your machine The other machine

2) Permits polling of.

1) Polling (ask other machine to send document)

4) Document data is automatically	3) Document data previously
sent to your machine
	scanned into memory

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Group keys and the broadcast transmission function (page 31) can be used to successively poll multiple fax machines in a single operation (this is called "serial polling"). Up to 200 machines can be polled.

In this case, the sequence of operations in the above diagram is successively repeated for each sending machine selected.

Note The receiving machine bears the expense (phone charges) of polling transmission.

Polling memory

This feature allows your machine to automatically send a document previously scanned into memory when another machine calls and polls your machine.

Your machine

2) Permits polling of.

3) Document data previously scanned into memory

The other machine

1) Polling

(request transmission)

4)Document data is automatically sent to

other machine

Note The machine that requests transmission bears the expense (phone charges) of the call.

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