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F-Code communication
F-Code: an introduction
Your fax machine's database polling (see page 140) and SecureMail (see
pages 155-161) features work only with other Pitney Bowes models, such
as the 4100 and 4200. However, the ITU-T (part of the United Nations
agency that maintains international telecommunications standards; for
more information, see the Glossary that begins on page 259) has now
created a fax industry standard for using sub-addressing and password-
based communications with not only other Pitney Bowes fax machines, ut
also other makers' machines. One name for this standard is F-Code, and
that is what we'll call it in these instructions and on your machine's
display.
How sub-addressing works: think of a mailroom
If you are new to the concept of sub-addressing, think about how one
receives mail addressed to a department within one's company. For
example, mail for Accounting gets to the mailroom for the entire
company; the Mail Department then routes the mail to Accounting.
That's the idea behind sub-addressing. Once your fax and another
F-Code-compatible fax begin their communication, they exchange special
F-Code signals to indicate just where the fax really should go. It's as if the
sending fax were saying, "Take this one and carry it on down the hallway
to room 148" and the receiving fax were replying, "148? Okay, will do."
Now, with F-Code, you can set up an ITU-T compatible sub-address and
password which lets you use SecureMail and database polling in
communication with any other fax machine, regardless of maker, so long
as it, too, uses the F-Code standard from the ITU-T.
To use ITU-T sub-addressing and password features, you have to create
F-Code boxes in your machine.
Setting up or changing F-Code boxes
The first step to using the F-Code box is to create F-Code boxes in your
fax machine. This procedure also lets you modify existing F-Code boxes.
Before you set up an F-Code box:
• You must decide how your callers will use this box — as a bulletin box
or a security box (see "Which type of box? on the next page).
• If the other person has set a password only, inform that person he or
she must store a sub-address before your communications may use
this feature. Each fax machine in the transaction, yours and the other
one, must store an ITU-T sub-address for this to work. (However, use
of the password itself is optional if you do not intend to use secure F-
Code communications.)
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