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Special Features
Chapter 9
Polling
What is Polling?
In normal faxing, a fax machine sends a document to another fax machine. With
polling, a fax machine calls another fax machine and requests that a document be sent
to it; in other words, it “polls” that fax machine.
Your FAX has the capability of functioning in both roles; it can poll another fax
machine to retrieve a document from it (polling receiving), or it can hold a document
in its polling box so that other fax machines can poll your FAX and retrieve your
document (polling sending).
Polling Receiving
In polling receiving, your FAX calls another fax machine and requests it sends the
document it is holding.
You may find polling receiving convenient in the following situations:
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When you want to retrieve a document from an establishment, such as bank or
information service.
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When you want to retrieve a document from another fax machine at your
convenience.
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When you want to bear the transmission cost of receiving a document.
Polling Another Fax Machine
Before polling another fax machine, be sure to read the following:
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The FAX can only poll fax machines that support polling.
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The document you want to retrieve must be ready to be polled on the other
party’s fax machine. If necessary, call the other party to check.
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Call the other party and check if you require a subaddress and/or password to
retrieve the document from their fax machine. If you do, take note of them and
register them together with the fax number for speed dialling (
Chapter 6). You
can only poll with a subaddress/password by using speed dialling. If you do not
require a subaddress/password, you can retrieve the document without having to
enter these numbers.
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If the other party is using a Canon fax machine and their unit does not support
subaddress/password transactions, ask them to set the polling ID on their fax
machine to 255 or 11111111 binary.
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You can poll several fax machines in one operation. Each polling operation can
retrieve documents from as many as 125 fax numbers.
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The subaddress/password must be an ITU-T standard subaddress/password.
Summary of Contents for L240
Page 1: ...FAX L240 L290 User s Guide ...
Page 46: ...3 14 Registering Information Chapter 3 ...
Page 60: ...5 10 Paper Handling Chapter 5 ...
Page 82: ...6 22 Speed Dialling Chapter 6 ...
Page 100: ...7 18 Sending Faxes Chapter 7 ...
Page 112: ...8 12 Receiving Faxes Chapter 8 ...
Page 134: ...9 22 Special Features Chapter 9 ...
Page 138: ...10 4 Copying Chapter 10 ...
Page 144: ...11 6 Reports and Lists Chapter 11 ...
Page 154: ...12 10 Maintenance Chapter 12 ...
Page 188: ...14 12 Summary of Settings Chapter 14 ...
Page 192: ...A 4 Specifications Appendix A ...
Page 200: ...B 8 FAX L290 Instructions Appendix B ...
Page 212: ...I 8 ...