Polling (Requesting a Fax Transmission)

Polling (Requesting a Fax Transmission)

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

Hint: 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.

♦Your machine is not capable of being polled.

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

• Enter the full number using the numeric keys.

• Pick up the handset (or press ) and dial the full number. Wait for the

 

 

DIGITAL

 

 

SPEAKERPHONE

fax answerback tone.

• Press

or

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

the display.

 

2 Press .

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

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