What's Polling; Before You Use Polling Receiving - Canon FAX-L800 User Manual

What's Polling?

Polling means a fax calls another fax and requests that the other fax send a
document that it is holding. Unlike normal sending and receiving, in polling the
receiver always calls the sender. This is called polling to receive a document. The
sender sends the document in response to the polling by a telephone call from
the receiver.
Your fax can be set up to function in both roles. Your fax can poll to receive a
document, or it can be polled to send a document that it is holding.

Before You Use Polling Receiving

Before you try to set up polling, note the following points:
11-2 Setting Up and Using Polling
With one operation you can poll several faxes. You can dial up to 210
telephone numbers and poll those faxes to receive documents that they are
holding.
You can poll a document at any time, but you may find it more useful to set
your fax for polling other faxes at specified times throughout the day. (Q11-5)
You must know if the other fax is holding the document under both a
subaddress and password or only a subaddress or password. You must also
know the subaddress and password so you can enter them on your fax. If you
do not know the subaddress or password, contact the other party.
If the other party's document(s) are registered for polling without a
subaddress or password, you can still perform polling receiving.
If the other party's fax does not support ITU-T subaddress/password
transactions, you can ask them to set the polling ID to 255 or 1111 1111
binary when the other party's fax machine is a Canon fax.
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