Polling Function - Sharp AR-FX7 Operation Manual

TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION
USING THE POLLING FUNCTION
This function can only be used if the other machine is a Super G3 or G3 machine and supports 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".
Note For information on polling and polling memory using F-codes, refer to "F-CODE POLLING MEMORY" (p.54).
This section only explains regular polling and regular polling memory.
Polling
This function allows your machine to call a sending machine and initiate reception of a document in that machine. A
timer setting can also be established to have the operation take place at night or at another specified time. (p.30)
Your machine
Group keys and the broadcast transmission function (p.26) can be used to successively poll multiple fax machines in
a single operation (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.
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1 Polling (ask other machine
to send document)
4 Document data is automatically
sent to your machine
The other machine
2 Permits polling
3 Document data previously
scanned into memory