How Does Faxability Work - Brother MFC MFC-9120CN User Manual

How Does FaxAbility Work?

Your telephone number will have the
standard ring pattern of long, long tone, while
the new number will have a ring pattern of
long, silence, long, etc. When FaxAbility is
On, you will not hear the first ring of all
incoming calls on the fax machine. Extension
telephones will ring as usual. If the fax
machine recognizes the ring pattern, all
ringing will stop and the fax machine will
answer and automatically receive the fax
message. Otherwise, you will hear the
extension telephones and the fax machine
continue to ring. The fax machine always
listens to the ring pattern before it answers,
so do not pick up the telephone during that
time. You will quickly learn to recognize the
ring pattern for faxes, so you will not be
tempted to answer that number. Either you or
a telephone answering device can answer
the main number(s).
Flowchart Sequence of Incoming call
Incoming Call
(either Voice or Fax)
All extension phones ring twice,
fax machine is silent.
Registered
Duet (Fax)
Number
Fax machine
Fax machine
automatically
begins ringing
receives and prints
on third ring.
fax message
without ringing.
You answer the call
at an external telephone
or an extension
telephone.
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Main number
(Voice Number)
Telephone Answering
Device (TAD)
answers the call.
Telephone and external devices
Note
After you have set the FaxAbility feature to
On, the receive mode is set to Manual
automatically. Unless you have a TAD or
Voice Mail set up on the FaxAbility
number, Manual mode means you must
answer all the call yourself. You can not
change the receive mode to the other
mode while the FaxAbility is set to on.
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