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Fax Features Getting Started
Your fax machine’s autodialer stores your most frequently called phone and fax
numbers for instant recall so you don’t have to remember them. It’s something like
an electronic phone book.
Autodialer basics
How do you autodial?
There are two kinds of autodialer numbers. The difference between the two is how
you dial them:
Type How to dial Amount stored
One-touch Press one of the keys, marked 01–78 78
on the right side of the control panel
Speed-dial Press
SPEED DIAL
/
TEL INDEX
followed by a 222
three-digit identifier, from 001 to 222
Total amount of numbers stored 300
Autodialing fax and phone numbers
Your fax machine’s autodialer will hold more than just fax numbers. You can store
phone numbers, too.
This is because when you use the autodialer to dial a number, the fax checks to see
if there’s a document in its feeder. If there is, the machine dials as a fax machine.
If there isn’t, it dials as a phone.
Location
ID
s and the EasyDial directory
When you store numbers in your autodialer, you can give these numbers descriptive
names, such as “Chicago office” or “Billing department”. Your machine calls this
name a Location
ID
.
Your machine’s autodialer sorts these location
ID
s alphabetically. Using your
EasyDial directory, you can look up these numbers by their descriptive names, just
as if you were using a phone book.
We’ll explain how to store the numbers and location
ID
s in the next few pages.
The EasyDial directory is discussed in detail on page 3.22.
Special Dialing Characters
Your fax machine allows you to enter special dialing characters when programming
the autodialer. These characters include hyphens and dashes, which make phone
numbers easier to read, and special characters needed for international calls.
The chart below briefly describes each of these characters. It also tells you what
keys to press on your fax machine to store those characters in your autodialer:
Char. What it does Keystroke(s)
–
Makes long numbers easier to read.
Press [ – ]
Doesn’t change fax machine operation.
/
(Has no effect in the United States.) Press [2nd Tone]
!
Tells your fax machine to pause until it
Press [1st Tone]
“hears” a dial tone.
Enters a pause. Each pause lasts two
seconds (or whatever length you set; see
Press [Pause]
–/
page 3.75). Each pause uses two of the
characters you can store in one phone
number.
If your fax machine is on a pulse (not
tone-dialing) line, switches from pulse-
dialing to tone (“
DTMF
”)-dialing. Use after
Press [Tone]
–!
the actual phone number but before any
characters (such as a long-distance
carrier’s access code) which must be in
DTMF
tone. Do not use on a tone line.
Advanced fax
3.11
Autodialer