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If you answer a call and no one is on the line:
You should assume that you’re receiving a manual fax.
Press *51 and wait for the chirp or until the LCD displays Receiving, and then hang up.
NOTE: You can also use the Easy Receive feature to make your machine automatically take the call.
Use a Non-Dell Cordless External Handset
Related Models:Dell E515dn / Dell E515dw
If your non-Dell cordless telephone is connected to the EXT. jack of the machine and you typically carry the cordless
handset elsewhere, it is easier to answer calls during the Ring Delay.
If you let the machine answer first, you must go to the machine so you can press Hook or Hook to transfer the call to
the cordless handset.
Use the Remote Codes
Related Models:Dell E515dn / Dell E515dw
Fax Receive Code
If you answer a fax call on an extension telephone, you can tell your machine to receive it by pressing the Fax Receive
Code *51. Wait for the chirping sounds then replace the handset.
If you answer a fax call at the external telephone, you can make the machine receive it by pressing the buttons in the
following table.
Applicable Models To make the machine receive the fax
Dell E515dn/Dell E515dw
Start and then 2
Telephone Answer Code
If you receive a voice call and the machine is in F/T mode, it will start to sound the F/T ring (pseudo/double-ring)
after the initial ring delay. If you pick up the call on an extension telephone you can turn the F/T ring off by pressing
#51 (make sure you press this between the rings).
If the machine answers a voice call and pseudo/double-rings for you to take over, you can take the call at the external
telephone by pressing the button in the following table.
Applicable Models To make the machine receive the fax
Dell E515dn/Dell E515dw
Hook
Change the Remote Codes
Related Models:Dell E515dn / Dell E515dw
The preset Fax Receive Code is *51. The preset Telephone Answer Code is #51. If you are always disconnected when
accessing your External TAD remotely, try changing the three-digit remote codes, for example ### and 999.
1. Press
(Fax).
2. Press Menu.
3. Press p or q to display the Fax option, and then press OK.
4. Press p or q to display the Setup Receive option, and then press OK.