How Does Faxability Work - Brother MFC-9440CN User Manual

How Does FaxAbility Work?

Your telephone number will have the
standard ring pattern of long, long tone, while
the new number will have a ring pattern of
long, silence, long, etc. When FaxAbility is
On, you will not hear the first ring of all
incoming calls on the fax machine. Extension
telephones will ring as usual. If the fax
machine recognizes the ring pattern, all
ringing will stop and the fax machine will
answer and automatically receive the fax
message. Otherwise, you will hear the
extension telephones and the fax machine
continue to ring. The fax machine always
listens to the ring pattern before it answers,
so do not pick up the telephone during that
time. You will quickly learn to recognize the
ring pattern for faxes, so you will not be
tempted to answer that number. Either you or
a telephone answering device can answer
the main number(s).
Flowchart Sequence of Incoming call
Incoming Call
(either Voice or Fax)
All extension telephones
ring,fax machine is silent.
Registered
Duet (Fax)
Number
Fax machine
Fax machine
automatically
begins ringing
receives and prints
on third ring.
fax message
without ringing.
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Main number
(Voice Number)
Telephone Answering
Device (TAD)
answers the call.
Telephone and external devices
Note
After you have set the FaxAbility feature to
On, the receive mode is set to Manual
automatically. Unless you have a TAD or
Voice Mail set up on the FaxAbility
number, Manual mode means you must
answer all the call yourself. You can not
change the receive mode to the other
mode while the FaxAbility is set to on.
How to Turn FaxAbility OFF or ON
The FaxAbility function is designed to
accommodate the FaxAbility service provided
by Telecom. To change the setting, repeat
Steps 1-3; Step 2 is where you can select
either On or Off.
Call Waiting beeps caused by incoming calls
on your main number can affect fax
transmissions. If you have FaxAbility Service
but don't have Call Waiting, you need do
nothing at this stage. If you do have Call
Waiting as well as FaxAbility, set the Call
Waiting menu option to On. See below.
a
Press Menu, 2, 0, 2.
The screen displays
Miscellaneous
2.Faxability
b
Press a or b to set FaxAbility to On or
Off.
If you have FaxAbility service, select On.
Press OK.
c
Press a or b to set Call Waiting to On or
Off. If you have Call Waiting service,
select On to avoid the trouble caused by
Call Waiting.
Press OK.
d
Press Stop/Exit.
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