Advanced features
Polling allows someone to fax a document to you when you place the call to them.
There are several kinds of polling:
• Regular polling — Your fax retrieves a document from a remote fax machine.
• F-Code polling — Your fax retrieves a specific document stored as a file in the remote
fax machine. To do this, you must be communicating with another F-code-compati-
ble fax machine. For more information on F-Code polling, see “F-Code
communication,” pages 3.35.
Note: For polling to work, the remote machine must also be set up to be polled.
Regular polling
To set up your machine for regular polling:
1
Make sure the document is inserted in the remote fax machine.
2
Press
ADVANCED FUNCTIONS
twice and then press
ENTER
. The
LCD
shows:
3
Enter the remote fax machine’s number by either pressing a one-touch key,
entering a speed-dial number or using the numeric keypad.
4
To perform the regular polling now, skip to step 8.
To perform delayed regular polling, go on to step 5.
5
Press
ADVANCED FUNCTIONS
,
ENTER
. The
LCD
shows:
6
Use the numeric keypad to enter the date and time (use the 24-hour format)
when your machine should perform the delayed regular polling.
7
Press
ENTER
.
8
Press
START
.
When your machine polls, it dials the remote machine and, upon making contact
with the other machine, begins receiving the document as if the other machine had
placed the call.
Being polled
Not only can you poll, but you can also be polled. To set up a document to be polled:
1
Your machine can’t be polled if it’s in Tel Ready mode, it must be set to auto-
matically answer, pg. 2.10
2
Insert the document.
3
Adjust resolution and contrast if necessary. (Your fax machine will be trans-
mitting to the machine doing the polling.)
4
Press Program key,
D
, 1, 0, 1,
ENTER
.
Your fax will scan the document into memory and return to standby mode.
Once the remote fax machine polls the document you stored, your fax machine auto-
matically erases the document from memory.
Printing a stored polling document
To print a document you’ve stored for regular polling without erasing it,
press Program key,
D
, 3, 0, 1,
ENTER
.
Erasing a stored polling document
To erase a document you’ve stored for regular polling from your machine’s memory,
press Program key,
D
, 2, 0, 1,
ENTER
.
Securing polling access to your fax machine
When you set a passcode, a calling fax which doesn’t “present” the proper passcode
or doesn’t have a compatible polling feature cannot poll from your fax.
Important: The passcode you use for polling operation is not the same as the pro-
tection passcode (see page 3.50).
Note: If you’re using the Block Junk Fax feature (see pages 3.54–3.55), even
incoming calls which meet the passcode test must come from phone num-
bers you’ve approved.
Delayed
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Enter Fax Number
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Polling
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