What Is Polling; Before You Use Polling Receiving - Canon FAX-L2000 Facsimile Manual

What Is Polling?

Polling means one fax machine calls another fax machine and requests that the other fax
machine 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 a polling request by a telephone call from the receiver.
NOTE
• Your machine can be set up to function in both roles. Your machine 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:
• In one operation you can poll several machines. You can dial up to 210 telephone numbers,
and poll those machines to receive documents that they are holding.
• You can poll a machine for a document at any time, but you may find it more useful to set your
machine for polling other machines at specified times throughout the day. (See "Polling to
Receive at a Preset Time", on p. 8-5.)
• You must know if the other fax machine is holding the document under both a subaddress
and password, or only a subaddress or password. You must also know the subaddress and
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password so you can enter them on your machine. If you do not know the subaddress or
password, contact the other party.
• If the other party's documents are registered for polling without a subaddress or password,
you can still perform polling receiving.
• If the other party's fax machine 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 machine.
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What Is Polling?