3.1
Basic operation
Your fax machine’s autodialer stores your most frequently called phone and fax
numbers for instant recall so you don’t have to remember them. It’s something like
an electronic phone book.
Autodialer basics
How do you autodial?
There are two kinds of autodialer numbers. The difference between the two is how
you dial them:
Type
How to dial
Amount stored
One-touch
Press one of the keys, marked 01–56
56
on the left side of the control panel
Speed-dial
Press
SPEED DIAL
/
GROUP
followed by a
244
three-digit identifier, from 001 to 244
Total amount of numbers stored
300
Call groups
As you set up your autodialer, you may also want to set up call groups. These are sets
of phone numbers that make it easy to send the same fax to many different loca-
tions. For example, one call group may include all of your clients in one city, another
group may include all of your employees and another may include all your vendors.
Your fax machine can store as many as 300 numbers in up to 32 call groups.
See also “Call group dialing,” page 3.6.
Location
ID
s and the EasyDial directory
When you store numbers in your autodialer, you can give these numbers descriptive
names, such as “Chicago office” or “Billing department”. Your machine calls this
name a Location
ID
.
Your machine’s autodialer sorts these location
ID
s alphabetically. Using your
EasyDial directory, you can look up these numbers by their descriptive names, just
as if you were using a phone book.
We’ll explain how to store the numbers and location
ID
s in the next few pages.
The EasyDial directory is discussed in detail on page 3.8.
Special Dialing Characters
Your fax machine allows you to enter special dialing characters when programming
the autodialer. These characters include hyphens, which make phone numbers eas-
ier to read, and special characters needed for international calls.
The chart below briefly describes each of these characters. It also tells you what
keys to press on your fax machine to store those characters in your autodialer:
Char. What it does
Keystroke(s)
Enters a pause. Each pause lasts two
PAUSE
/
DIAL OPT
. (once)
seconds (or whatever length you set; see
[after you enter at least one
–/
page 4.5). Each pause uses two of the
other character]
characters you can store in one phone
number.
–
Makes long numbers easier to read.
PAUSE
/
DIAL OPT
. (twice)
Doesn’t change fax machine operation.
/
(Has no effect in the United States.)
PAUSE
/
DIAL OPT
. (3 times)
!
Tells your fax machine to pause until it
PAUSE
/
DIAL OPT
. (4 times)
“hears” a dial tone.
If your fax machine is on a pulse (not
tone-dialing) line, switches from pulse-
dialing to tone (“
DTMF
”)-dialing. Use after
PAUSE
/
DIAL OPT
. (5 times)
–!
the actual phone number but before any
characters (such as a long-distance
carrier’s access code) which must be in
DTMF
tone. Do not use on a tone line.
Autodialer
