Operation Manual

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User Manual
Special settings
Silent fax reception
To receive faxes without any ring signals, set the amount
of ring signals in FAX RINGS to 0.
Completely silent operation $
You should use this option only with devices with
integral answering machines. If, for example, you do
not wish to be disturbed by calls or faxes arriving
at night, you may set the number of ringing signals
(tam rings and fax rings) to 0. Faxes are then
received silently and calls are immediately answered by
the answering machine, provided you have switched
the answering machine on.
For machines without a built-in answer machine the
fax switch is disabled in this setting, i. e. your device
immediately switches over to fax reception and will not
ring, when calls are received (the caller hears a whistling
tone).
v For this reason calls cannot be recorded by any
external answering machine which may be con-
nected.
Manual fax reception
If you select MANUAL RECEPTION faxes will not
be automatically received by your fax machine unless
you activate fax reception yourself. Lift the handset
and press START. This may be sensible for example,
if you wish to receive your faxes by modem at your
computer.
Economy operating mode
(for device with built-in answering machine)
If you select option 5/2 at TAM RINGS your an-
swering machine will start after two ringing signals in-
stead of after five, when you receive
new messages.
Via the remote access function you have the opportu-
nity to check, whether your answering machine holds
any messages without incurring telephone cost (if your
answering machine turns itself on after only two ring-
ing signals you will know, that new messages have been
left). After listening to your new messages your answer-
ing machine will, at the next call, switch itself on again
after five ringing signals.
External answering
machine
Connect your answering machine as described in In-
stallation / Additional devices.
To provide for the optimum performance of an ex-
ternal answering machine, set this device to ring once
or twice. To avoid the automatic acceptance of calls
by the fax-switch, you must set total RINGS and
fax RINGS to a value at least two ringing signals
higher than the setting of the external answering ma-
chine.
If you switch off the external answering machine, calls
are accepted by the fax-switch (see chapter Set SM
mode).
Settings example:
Answering machine rings 2
FAX RINGS 4
TOTAL RINGS 4
Tips:
The answering message of your answering machine
should be shorter than ten seconds.
Please avoid music in your outgoing message.
If your fax machine is unable to recognise older fax
machine models, which do not transmit those signals
that are commonly used in today’s technology, you
should advise your callers in your answering message
to press * and 5 followed by START to commence
the fax reception.
If the automatic fax reception is impossible, press
START to manually begin receiving the fax.
If your answering machine provides an “economy
function” (e.g. a function which changes the number
of ringing signals as soon as a message was recorded),
you should preferably switch this function off.
It is possible that the answering machine not only
counts the messages received, but also the number of
fax calls.
Please ensure that the code for starting the fax recep-
tion from other telephones (factory setting * and 5)
is not the same as for remote access to recorded mes-
sages. Where necessary the code for function 34 may
be changed (see Hints and Tips / Easylink).