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How the answering machine mode operates
While you are out, all of your incoming calls will be answered by your answer-
ing machine and its outgoing message will play. Voice callers can leave a mes-
sage. During this time, your fax machine will quietly monitor the line. If your
fax machine detects a fax tone or a duration of silence equal to four seconds
(called "Quiet Detect Time"), it will take over the line and begin reception.
Your fax machine listens for a duration of silence because some transmitting ma-
chines do not send a fax tone when the fax is sent manually (this means that the
person faxing uses the handset to dial and then presses their Start key after listen-
ing to your outgoing message). Pressing the Start key in this case causes the line
to go silent. The timing for fax reception is shown below.
Outgoing message
(10 sec. max)
Fax machine
rings
Quiet Detect Time
(Initial setting: 4 sec.)
0 sec.
10 sec.
14 sec.
Answering machine
answers
Sender presses
start key
(Line goes silent)
Fax reception
begins
♦ If the connection is not good or there is noise on the line, the answering ma-
chine and/or fax machine may not respond properly.
♦ The call counter on your answering machine may indicate that voice mes-
sages were received, when only fax messages were received.
Note: To prevent the fax from taking over the line and beginning reception if
you call in from an external phone or answer on an extension phone, press any
three keys (other than the code to activate fax reception, "5", "*", and "*")
on the dial pad of the phone. This can only be performed from a phone capa-
ble of tone dialling.
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