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Completely silent operation $
You should use this option only with devices
with integral answering machines. If, for example,
you do not wish to be disturbed by calls or faxes
arriving at night, you may set the number of rin-
ging signals (tam rings and fax rings) to
0. Faxes are then received silently and calls are
immediately answered by the answering machine,
provided you have switched the answering ma-
chine on.
For machines without a built-in answer machine
the fax switch is disabled in this setting, i. e. your
device immediately switches over to fax recep-
tion and will not ring, when calls are received (the
caller hears a whistling tone).
v For this reason calls cannot be recorded by
be connected.
Manual fax reception
If you select MANUAL RECEPTION faxes will
not be automatically received by your fax machine
unless you activate fax reception yourself. Lift the
handset and press START/COPY. This may be
sensible for example, if you wish to receive your
faxes by modem at your computer.
Economy operating mode
If you select option 5/2 at TAM RINGS your
answering machine will start after two ringing
signals instead of after fi ve, when you receive
new messages. Via the remote access function
you have the opportunity to check, whether your
answering machine holds any messages without
incurring telephone cost (if your answering ma-
chine turns itself on after only two ringing signals
you will know, that new messages have been left).
After listening to your new messages your answe-
ring machine will, at the next call, switch itself on
again after fi ve ringing signals.
External answering
machine
Connect your answering machine as described in
Installation / Additional devices.
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any external answering machine which may
To provide for the optimum performance of
an external answering machine, set this device
to ring once or twice. To avoid the automatic
acceptance of calls by the fax-switch, you must
set total RINGS and fax RINGS to a value
at least two ringing signals higher than the setting
of the external answering machine.
If you switch off the external answering machine,
calls are accepted by the fax-switch (see chapter
Set SM mode).
Settings example:
Answering machine rings
FAX RINGS
TOTAL RINGS
Tips:
The answering message of your answering ma-
chine should be shorter than ten seconds.
Please avoid music in your outgoing message.
If your fax machine is unable to recognise older
fax machine models, which do not transmit those
signals that are commonly used in today's tech-
nology, you should advise your callers in your
answering message to press * and 5 followed
by START/COPY to commence the fax recep-
tion.
If the automatic fax reception is impossible,
press START/COPY to manually begin recei-
ving the fax.
If your answering machine provides an "econo-
my function" (e.g. a function which changes the
number of ringing signals as soon as a message
was recorded), you should preferably switch this
function off.
It is possible that the answering machine not only
counts the messages received, but also the num-
ber of fax calls.
Please ensure that the code for starting the fax
reception from other telephones (factory setting
* and 5) is not the same as for remote access
to recorded messages. Where necessary the code
for function 34 may be changed (see Hints and
Tips / Easylink).
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