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Detection of "Silent" Fax Machines
Some older fax machines do
not
send out fax tones when transmitting
.
If you're
using your answering machine with your fax machine, this
might
be a problem:
under these circumstances, your fax machine would fail to detect the remote
(calling) fax machine, thus leaving your answering machine to record calls from
such machines. However, your Muratec fax machine can accommodate
these
"silent" fax machines without disrupting your answering machine operation.
With silent fax detection activated in Ans/Fax
Ready,
your fax machine gives
the caller six seconds to begin speaking after the answering machine starts
recording. If there's
no
voice response, your fax will attempt reception.
See page 46 for information on activating this capability in your Muratec fax.
Call Request
This feature allows you to send or receive a fax message and carry on a voice
conversation on the same
call,
regardless of whether you are
the
transmitter or
recipient
of the fax message.
For this feature to work, the remote fax machine must have a similar call-reserve
capability.
You may fax first and then talk, or talk first and then fax.
To send/receive a fax first and then
talk:
1. While your fax machine is transmitting or receiving the fax message,
press
Monitor/Call.
I
Call requeeted
2. At the remote fax machine, the ringer will ring after each page is printed
(whether it is there or on your machine, depending upon which is sending and
which is receiving).
3. If someone answers at the remote fax machine, your fax machine will ring
several times. If so, pick up the handset. In a few seconds, the line will open
and you can begin your conversation.
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Operating Instructions
To talk first and
then
send/receive a fax:
1.
Before
you hang up, insert a document into your fax machine.
2. At
the
end of your
conversation,
tell
the remote fax machine operator to press
Start
and to hang up his/her
handset.
3. When you hear fax tones, press
Start
and hang up your machine's handset.
To respond to a requested call
If someone
requests
a call from you, you'll hear a
long
ring after each page is
sent or received. To answer the call
request,
pick up your fax
machine's
handset
and wait a few
seconds,
during which you may hear a brief series of fax
tones.
Shortly, the line will open and you and the remote fax operator can converse.
Oneline
+
Distinctive Ring Detection
It used to be that to
have
two phone
numbers,
you had to have two phone lines
(and the more expensive phone equipment that
usually
involves). But many
phone companies now offer their customers a special service which makes it
possible for one
phone line to do the
work of two
-
a real
boon in this
age of
the small office/home office.
Physically, you still
have
only one phone
line; but,
electronically, you have two
phone numbers; and each rings your phone in a different way from the other.
This
makes
it easy for you to
have
both, say, a business number and a home
number on one
phone line
(so you can answer one, "Jane Doe
Consulting,"
and
the
other,
"Hello"). You get the
idea.
This
works because
you're smart enough
to
detect
the distinctive patterns of the two rings.
But what if your fax
machine
also was smart enough to know
the difference
be-
tween the two
numbers
'
ringing
patterns?
Then it could
ignore
one
number,
"knowing"
that it's
supposed
to
answer only the other one.
Well, as you've
probably
guessed
by now,
that's exactly what your Muratec
fax
machine can do.
All you
have to do is
give it
a little help
at
the beginning
and
begin to
enjoy
the benefits
of
its OneLine +distinctive ring detection
(DRD) feature.
Your
phone
company
must
set
up
your
distinctive ring
service, at which
time it
will assign
you
a ring pattern,
expressed as
time. For
example,
the
standard
telephone
ring is
2 seconds "on" (ringing) and
4
seconds "off' (silent), after
which
it repeats
itself (hence the
term,
ring pattern). This time
usually is
described
in terms
of milliseconds. A
millisecond is
1/1000
of a second (and, by
the
same
token, a
second
is 1,000 milliseconds).
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