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Distinctive Ring
"Distinctive ring" is a service provided by a telephone company. You
need to check with your telephone company to see if it is offered in
your area. If it is offered, it allows you to have two or three phone
numbers on the same phone line and is cheaper than having separate
lines. It is easy to tell the phone numbers apart because each one has
a distinctive ring: the first phone number has a single ring, the second
has a double ring, and the third has a triple ring.
The
Distinctive Ring
feature allows the HP OfficeJet to distinguish
between voice and fax calls when both are received on the same
phone line, but it only works with your telephone company's
distinctive ring service. The factory setting is
Distinctive Ring=Off
;
the HP OfficeJet automatically (Receive mode is set to
Auto
)answers
all
calls. If you have subscribed to your telephone company's
distinctive ring service, ask your telephone company to assign the
single ring to phone numbers that receive voice calls and multiple
rings to phone number(s) that receive fax calls. Then Check the
Distinctive Ring
checkbox to allow the HP OfficeJet to answer the
phone and receive faxes only when it detects a multiple ring.
(At the time of publication, distinctive ring services`also known by
other names`were available only in certain parts of the U.S. and
some Asian countries.)
Silent Detect
To receive faxes from older-model fax machines that don't emit a fax
signal, click the
Silent Detect
checkbox. At the time of publication,
these silent models represented about 5% of the fax machines in use.
The factory setting is
Silent Detect=Off
. Modify only when all of the
following are true:
N
You receive a fax from an older-model fax machine.
N
Y
our telephone answering machine is directly connected to the
HP OfficeJet.
N
The
Receive Mode
is set to
Auto.