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Beyond the basics
The basics of broadcasting
The fastest way to fax one document to many recipients is by broadcasting — and
your fax machine has very powerful broadcasting capabilities. You can use broad-
casting from any function requiring the entry of a fax number! That means
you can perform delayed broadcasting (see pages 2.19–2.20), polling broadcasting
(see pages 2.23–2.24) and even broadcasting to “hub” units for relay broadcast initi-
ation (see pages 2.17–2.18).
In an ordinary broadcast, you send the fax as you normally would, except for one
change: you just add more fax numbers! You can enter up to 150 numbers (20 nor-
mally dialed numbers, plus 130 autodialer numbers).
We’ll assume you’ve become familiar with regular fax transmission, and we’ll
shorten the instructions a bit below.
1
Insert the document and make any necessary adjustments as usual.
2
Press
BROADCAST
.
3
Enter the first fax number — a one-touch number, a speed-dial number or just
a regular number dialed from the numeric keypad as usual.
4
To add each successive fax number, press
BROADCAST
between each one to
insert a comma, then enter the number as in step 3. You can specify up to 150
numbers (see first paragraph, above) for a broadcast.
Important: Do not insert a comma after the last fax number.
Note: If you enter characters by mistake, just press
CANCEL
to clear them
before proceeding.
5
Press
START
. Your fax machine will scan the document into memory and then
send it to each number you’ve entered.
The main idea is: when it’s time to enter the fax number for your document, you
enter multiple numbers until you’ve either reached 150 numbers or finished dialing
all the numbers you want to dial for this document.
Or to save time, you can dial many numbers at once by using the machine’s
Programmable keys. For more information, see “Programming a broadcast / Group”
on page 2.35.
Delayed broadcasting
What if you want the broadcast to happen later? That’s the purpose of setting up a
delayed broadcast.
Note: The main discussion of delayed commands comes up in the “Delayed trans-
mission” section (pages 2.19–2.20). You may want to read that material
before proceeding.
1
Follow steps 1–4 of “The basics of broadcasting” (left column).
2
Press
COM
-
OPTIONS
,
ENTER
.
3
Use the numeric keypad to enter the day of the month and time when you
want the fax to perform the broadcast. Here, we’ve set it to occur at 10:15
PM
on the 30th.
When finished, press
ENTER
to save the setting.
4
Now, press
START
. Your machine will return to its normal standby mode,
while showing this on the
LCD
:
This means your fax machine is “reserved” for the delayed broadcast you
just programmed, but it can still be used by others to send and receive faxes if
your document is stored in memory.
** Reserved **
Dec 29 1998 17:17
Delayed
Enter Time: 30/22:15
Press Start
C,S098,J,9-5551204
2.16
Broadcasting