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Getting started
A quick introduction to fax in general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1
Make sure it’s all out of the packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2
What are all the parts? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2
What do the keys do? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4
Setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.6
EasyStart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.10
Sending faxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.13
Receiving faxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.18
Making copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.22
A quick introduction to fax in general
What’s a fax document?
Simply put, a fax document is anything a fax user wants to fax to someone else. It
can be just one page or as many pages as you need. That’s up to you. It can be text,
a photograph or even your child’s latest drawing!
What’s a fax number?
Because your fax operates on standard phone lines, a fax number is just a regular
phone number. And, because your fax is also a high-quality, full-featured telephone,
your fax number can be your regular phone number; just add an optional handset to
your fax. Or you can (but this isn’t necessary!) dedicate a phone number to your fax,
letting you use one number just for ordinary voice calls and one just for fax.
What are resolution and grayscale?
Just as cars are measured by engine size, and stereo systems are measured by
watts per channel, so fax machines are measured by resolution and grayscale. So
let’s talk about these for a moment. Resolution refers to the sharpness of a fax
transmission. It’s expressed in lines per inch (lpi). An international agency has
defined three specific levels of resolution:
• Normal (203 horizontal × 98 vertical lpi)
• Fine (203 × 196 lpi)
• Superfine (203 × 392 lpi).
Similarly, one can judge a fax transmission by its number of grayscale levels, or
shades of gray — really, halftones such as you might see in a newspaper photo. It’s
likely most of your fax documents will be dark text on white paper. However, when
you want to send photographs and other shaded items, you can set your fax
machine to transmit in 64-scale grayscale.
So why not always set your fax machine for superfine,
or for grayscale?
Because these settings make your machine send more information, making trans-
missions last longer and (on long-distance calls) driving up your phone bills. That’s
why, as you’ll see, we’ve made it easy for you to set your fax machine for the most
efficient, and truest, transmission of the types of documents you send!
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