Entering Your Name And Fax; Polling; Polling Others; Gaining Permission To Polling A Secured Fax Machine - Sharp FO-225 Operation Manual

Polling is used to make another machine send a document to your machine. In other words, the
receiving machine, not the transmitting machine, activates the transmission. With the FO-225, you
can both poll and be polled by others.
Polling others
The procedure for polling others is as follows:
1. Dial the machine you want to poll using one of the following methods:
Pick up the handset (or press the SPEAKER key) and dial the full number.Wait
for the fax answerback tone.
s Press the SPEED DIAL key and enter a 2-digit Speed Dial number.
c Directly enter the full number using the numeric keys (Direct Keypad Dialing).
2. Press the POLLING key.
3. When
POLLING appears in the display, hang up the handset if used. Reception will
begin.
Gaining permission to poll a secured fax machine
If the machine you want to poll is secured against unauthorized polling, you will need to confer with
the operator of that machine about gaining permission to poll it. In general, a secured machine can
only be polled if one of the following conditions is met:
Your fax number has been entered in the secured machine as having permission
to poll it.
Important: Your fax number must also be entered in your machine, as described
in "Entering your name and fax number" in Chapter 2.
You have given your machine a System number (see "Giving your machine a
System number" on the following page), and this System number has been entered
in the secured machine as having permission to poll it.
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Important:
A System number can onl? be used if the secured wchine is also a Sharp machine.
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