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A quick introduction to fax in general ............................... 1.1
General precautions ............................................................ 1.2
Make sure it’s all out of the packaging .............................. 1.3
What are all the parts? ........................................................ 1.4
What do the keys do? ......................................................... 1.6
Setting up ............................................................................. 1.9
EasyStart ............................................................................ 1.19
Sending faxes .................................................................... 1.21
Receiving faxes ................................................................. 1.29
Making copies ................................................................... 1.34
A quick introduction to fax in general
What is 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. It can be text, a photograph or even your
child’s latest drawing!
What is 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. You can — but this isn’t necessary — dedicate a phone
number to your fax machine, letting you use one number for ordinary voice calls and one just
for fax.
What are resolution and greyscale?
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 greyscale. So let’s talk about these for a
moment. Resolution refers to the sharpness of a fax transmission. An international agency has
defined three specific levels of resolution:
•
Normal
(8 dots/mm × 3.85 lines/mm)
•
Fine
(8 dots/mm × 7.7 lines/mm)
•
Superfine
(8 dots/mm × 15.7 lines/mm)
Similarly, one can judge a fax transmission by its number of
greyscale levels
, or shades of grey
— 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-level greyscale. (And for
just copying and not faxing, you can use
128
-level greyscale for even more enhanced image
quality.)
So why not set your fax machine to use superfine or
greyscale for
all
transmissions?
Because these settings make your machine send more information, making transmissions 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!