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Your fax machine’s autodialer stores your most frequently called phone and fax
numbers so you don’t have to remember them. The autodialer also makes it easy to
dial even the most complicated international calls!
Autodialer basics
How do you autodial?
There are two kinds of autodialer numbers. The difference between the two is how
you “call them up,”:
• One-touch — Pressing one of the keys, marked
A
–
O
on the control panel.
• Speed-dial — Pressing
SPEED DIAL
/
TEL INDEX
followed by a three-digit identifier,
from 01 to 85.
How big is the vault?
Your fax machine can store a total of 100 numbers — up to 15 one-touch numbers
and up to 85 speed-dial numbers.
Which number is which?
Your fax machine’s autodialer will hold both fax numbers and phone numbers.
This is possible because your fax machine first checks to see if there’s a document in
the feeder. If there is, the machine dials as a fax machine. If there isn’t, it dials as a
telephone.
EasyDial directory
— or, What the heck’s a Location
ID
?
Your machine also features a built-in EasyDial directory (see page 2.13) which acts
as a phone book for your fax and phone numbers. Just enter your fax/phone num-
bers along with their descriptive names in the EasyDial directory. (Your machine
calls this name a Location
ID
.) The autodialer sorts these alphabetically so, with
EasyDial, you can look them up by name as if you were using a phone book.
Special dialing characters
Which number do you find easier to read: 919725552009 or 9-1-972-555-2009?
Obviously, it’s the second one. The hyphen (or dash) character (“-”) separates the
numbers. In this example, a 9 is entered for outside-line access, a 1 is entered for
long-distance access, then the area code and the phone number are entered.
The hyphen can also be important if you have to use special long-distance access
codes or country codes for international calling.
Also, certain calls require special symbols besides just numerals. If you make calls
to other countries — or just have your fax machine on an unusual phone system —
you will want to be able to put the appropriate characters in the numbers you store.
That’s why your fax machine allows you to enter special dialing characters. Below is
a brief description of these characters, as well as how you can put them in the num-
bers you store in the autodialer:
Char. What it does Keystroke(s)
–
Makes long numbers easier to read.
DIALING OPTIONS
(once)
Does not change fax machine operation.
/
(Has no effect.)
DIALING OPTIONS
(twice)
!
Tells your fax machine to pause until it
DIALING OPTIONS
(3 times)
“hears” a dial tone.
Enters a pause when dialing
long-distance numbers or when you are
dialing through
PABX
. Each pause lasts five
REDIAL
/
PAUSE
–/
seconds (or whatever length you set; see
page 1.16). Each pause uses two of
the characters you can store in one
phone number.
If your fax machine is set for pulse dialing,
switches from pulse- to tone- (“
DTMF
”)
DIALING OPTIONS
(once), then
–!
dialing. Use after the actual phone number
(once), then
but before any characters (such as long--
DIALING OPTIONS
(3 times),
distance access codes) which must be in
then (once)
DTMF
tone. Do not use on a tone line. Each
–!
uses two of the characters you can
store in one phone number.
Beyond the basics
Autodialer
2.7