Faxing (CLX-3185FN/CLX-3185FW only)
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answered as a fax call, and all other ringing patterns will be forwarded to the
extension telephone or answering machine plugged into the EXT socket.
You can easily suspend or change DRPD at any time.
Before using the DRPD option, Distinctive Ring service must be installed on
your telephone line by the telephone company. To set up DRPD, you will
need another telephone line at your location, or someone available to dial
your fax number from outside.
To set up the DRPD mode
1.
Press
(Fax) on the control panel.
2.
Press
Menu
on the control panel.
3.
Press the left/right arrow until
Fax Setup
appears and press
OK
.
4.
Press the left/right arrow until
Receiving
appears and press
OK
.
5.
Press the left/right arrow until
Receive Mode
appears and press
OK
.
6.
Press the left/right arrow until
DRPD
appears and press
OK
.
Waiting Ring
appears on the display.
7.
Call your fax number from another telephone. It is not necessary to
place the call from a fax machine.
8.
When your machine begins to ring, do not answer the call. The machine
requires several rings to learn the pattern.
When the machine completes learning, the display shows
Completed
DRPD Setup
. If the DRPD setup fails,
Error DRPD Ring
appears.
Press OK when DRPD appears and start over from step 6.
•
DRPD must be set up again if you re-assign your fax number, or
connect the machine to another telephone line.
•
After DRPD has been set up, call your fax number again to verify
that the machine answers with a fax tone. Then have a call
placed to a different number assigned to that same line to be
sure the call is forwarded to the extension telephone or
answering machine plugged into the EXT socket.
Receiving in secure receiving mode
You may need to prevent your received faxes from being accessed by
unauthorized people. You can turn on secure receiving mode to restrict
printing of received faxes when the machine is unattended. In secure
receiving mode, all incoming faxes go into memory. When the mode is
deactivated, any stored faxes are printed.
Activating secure receiving mode
1.
Press
(Fax) on the control panel.
2.
Press
Menu
on the control panel.
3.
Press the left/right arrow until
Fax Feature
appears and press
OK
.
4.
Press the left/right arrow until
Secure Receive
appears and press
OK
.
5.
Press the left/right arrow until
On
appears and press
OK
.
6.
Enter a four-digit password you want to use and press
OK
.
You can activate secure receiving mode without setting a
password, but cannot protect your faxes.
7.
Re-enter the password to confirm it and press
OK
.
8.
Press
Stop/Clear
to return to ready mode.
When a fax is received in secure receiving mode, your machine stores it in
memory and shows
Secure Receive
to let you know that there is a fax
received.
Printing received faxes
1.
Access the
Secure Receive
menu by following steps 1 through 4 in
“Activating secure receiving mode.”
2.
Press the left/right arrow until
appears and press
OK
.
3.
Enter the four-digit password and press
OK
.
The machine prints all of the faxes stored in memory.
Deactivating secure receiving mode
1.
Access the
Secure Receive
menu by following steps 1 through 4 in
“Activating secure receiving mode.”
2.
Press the left/right arrow until
Off
appears and press
OK
.
3.
Enter the four-digit password and press
OK
.
The mode is deactivated and the machine prints all faxes stored in
memory.
4.
Press
Stop/Clear
to return to ready mode.
Receiving faxes in memory
Since your machine is a multi-tasking device, it can receive faxes while you
are making copies or printing. If you receive a fax while you are copying or
printing, your machine stores incoming faxes in its memory. Then, as soon
as you finish copying or printing, the machine automatically prints the fax.
Adjusting the document settings
Before starting a fax, change the following settings according to your
original’s status to get the best quality.
Resolution
The default document settings produces good results when using typical
text-based originals. However, if you send originals that are of poor quality,
or contain photographs, you can adjust the resolution to produce a higher
quality fax.
1.
Press
(Fax) on the control panel.
2.
Press
Menu
on the control panel.
3.
Press the left/right arrow until
Fax Feature
appears and press
OK
.
4.
Press the left/right arrow until
Resolution
appears and press
OK
.
5.
Press the left/right arrow until the option you want appears and press
OK
.
6.
Press
Stop/Clear
to return to ready mode.
Recommended resolution settings for different original document types are
described in the table below.
mode
recommended for
Standard
Originals with normal sized characters
Fine
Originals containing small characters or thin lines or
originals printed using a dot-matrix printer
Super Fine
Originals containing extremely fine detail.
Super Fine
mode is enabled only if the machine with which you are
communicating also supports the Super Fine resolution.
•
For memory transmission,
Super Fine
mode is
not available. The resolution setting is
automatically changed to
Fine
.
•
When your machine is set to
Super Fine
resolution and the fax machine with which you
are communicating does not support
Super
Fine
resolution, the machine transmits using
the highest resolution mode supported by the
other fax machine.
Photo Fax
Originals containing shades of gray or photographs
