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Relay broadcasting — Lets some fax machines store a document in internal memory,
transmit the document to the memory of a remote “hub” fax and then instruct that unit to
relay (re-transmit) the document to each fax in a call group in the “hub” unit. This feature
speeds extremely high-volume fax communication and allows a single command to initiate
document transmission to hundreds of preprogrammed fax locations. It also saves phone
charges for the originating machine. Your machine can initiate a relay broadcast.
Remote fax machine — The machine on the other “end” of a fax communication.
REN
— See Ringer equivalence number.
Resolution — The resolution of documents transmitted or copied by fax machines is mea-
sured by the number of horizontal (
H
) and vertical (
V
) lines per inch (lpi) the unit can print.
The Olympia machine offers these resolution levels:
Normal 203
H
× 98
V
lpi 8 dots/mm × 3.85 lines/mm
Fine 203
H
× 196
V
lpi 8 dots/mm × 7.7 lines/mm
Superfine 203
H
× 392
V
lpi 8 dots/mm × 15.4 lines/mm
Some units also offer grayscale transmission (see also Grayscale) for accurate reproduction of
photographs and other shaded originals.
Ringer equivalence number — Also called
REN
. A number assigned to telecommunications
equipment used in the United States; designed to prevent overloading on a telephone circuit.
See also Load number.
Scanning width — See Effective scanning width.
SecureMail — Allows the user to send a document to or receive one into (usually something
confidential) an “electronic mail box.” The transmission is protected at the receiving machine
by an access code, so that it prints the document only when an authorized user enters the
code.
Secure polling — Polling in which preset passcodes are checked between two machines
before polling is allowed to take place.
Speed-dialling — Allows the fax user to store frequently used fax numbers for dialling with
the touch of three keys — an identifier key (either * or #) and then a three-digit code — for
each number. See also Autodialling and One-touch dialling.
Station
ID
— (Also called Location
ID
or Receiver
ID
.) An autodialer feature which lets the fax
user enter a descriptive name to correspond with the number in an autodialer entry. Your
Olympia machine allows entry of both upper-case and lower-case letters, for greater ease of
reading.
Subaddressing — An ITU-T standard allowing fax machines to specify special delivery
characteristics of a transmission. For example, subaddressing allows fax machines from dif-
ferent manufacturers to send and receive messages into confidential memory mailboxes, or to
retrieve specific files from polling memory.
Subscriber
ID
— A fax machine’s telephone number, as identified by a user setting. See
TTI
.
Super Group 3 — An extension of Group 3 fax technology standards, allowing the use of
high-speed v.34 bis modems for 33.6 Kbps transmission and high-speed protocols for rapid
handshaking.
Superfine resolution — 203
H
× 392
V
lpi. Your fax machine’s superfine transmission mode
is Group-3-compatible, not the more limited proprietary version.
TAD
— Telephone answering device, or answering machine. Records incoming voice messages
for playback. You can connect a
TAD
to this fax machine and use the two on one phone line.
TCR
— Transmit confirmation report; this provides proof that your fax machine did send the
document you set for transmission. Printed after transmission, the
TCR
also identifies the
telephone number to which the fax sent the document, plus the actual time of transmission
and how many pages the unit transmitted. See also
RCR
.
Thermal (paper) printing — A thermal head heats chemically treated, thermally sensitive
paper in patterns conforming to the image the machine has scanned, creating a printed
image. Thermal paper’s tendency to discolor and fade, in addition to its curliness and the
usual difficulty in writing on it, have made this method considerably less popular than plain-
paper fax printing — particularly as plain-paper fax machines have dropped sharply in price.
TTI
— Transmit terminal identifier. A user-programmable line of information sent automati-
cally with every page a fax machine sends; it appears at the top of each page printed by the
receiving unit.
Transmission speed — How fast a fax machine is sending a fax document. This speed
depends upon the modem speed of each unit, the resolution setting, the content of the docu-
ment, the encoding technique and the condition of the phone line (clean, noisy, etc.) Any
change in any one of these five conditions will affect the speed, sometimes significantly.
V
.29 and v.27 ter — A standard set of communication procedures allowing fax machines to
talk to other units using those standards. Specifically, these standards cover fax transmission
at 9600 bps or slower.
V
.34 — An international standard for fax modems — and other modems — with transmission
speeds of up to 33.6 Kbps. It represents the current maximum standard transmission speed
possible under ITU-T Group 3.
White-line skip — A technique used to speed up fax transmission by bypassing redundant
areas, such as white space.
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