Polling; What Is Polling; Polling Receiving; Polling Another Fax Machine - Canon FAX-L290 User Manual

Polling

What is Polling?

In normal faxing, a fax machine sends a document to another fax machine. With polling,
a fax machine calls another fax machine and requests that a document be sent to it; in
other words, it "polls" that fax machine.
Your FAX has the capability of functioning in both roles; it can poll another fax machine
to retrieve a document from it (polling receiving), or it can hold a document in its polling
box so that other fax machines can poll your FAX and retrieve your document (polling
sending).

Polling Receiving

In polling receiving, your FAX calls another fax machine and requests it sends the
document it is holding.
You may find polling receiving convenient in the following situations:
– When you want to retrieve a document from an establishment, such as bank or
information service.
– When you want to retrieve a document from another fax machine at your
convenience.
– When you want to bear the transmission cost of receiving a document.

Polling Another Fax Machine

Before polling another fax machine, be sure to read the following:
• The FAX can only poll fax machines that support polling.
• The document you want to retrieve must be ready to be polled on the other party's fax
machine. If necessary, call the other party to check.
• Call the other party and check if you require a subaddress and/or password to retrieve
the document from their fax machine. If you do, take note of them and register them
together with the fax number for speed dialling (1 Chapter 6). You can only poll with a
subaddress/password by using speed dialling. If you do not require a
subaddress/password, you can retrieve the document without having to enter these
numbers.
• If the other party is using a Canon fax machine and their unit does not support
subaddress/password transactions, ask them to set the polling ID on their fax machine
to 255 or 11111111 binary.
• You can poll several fax machines in one operation. Each polling operation can
retrieve documents from as many as 125 fax numbers.
• The subaddress/password must be an ITU-T standard subaddress/password.
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