15
Fax Switch
Special settings
Silent fax reception
To receive faxes without any ring signals, set the
amount of ring signals in FAX RINGS: to 0.
Manual fax reception
If you select MANUAL RECEPTION faxes will
not be automatically received by your fax ma-
chine unless you activate fax reception yourself.
Lift the handset and press START/COPY. This
may be sensible for example, if you wish to re-
ceive your faxes by modem at your computer.
External answering
machine
Connect your answering machine as described in
Installation / Additional devices.
To provide for the optimum performance of an
external answering machine, set this device to
ring once or twice. To avoid the automatic ac-
ceptance of calls by the fax-switch, you must set
total RINGS: and fax RINGS: to a value
at least two ringing signals higher than the setting
of the external answering machine.
If you switch off the external answering machine,
calls are accepted by the fax-switch (see chapter
Set SM mode).
Settings example:
Answering machine rings 2
FAX RINGS: 4
TOTAL RINGS: 4
Tips:
The answering message of your answering ma-
chine should be shorter than ten seconds.
Please avoid music in your outgoing message.
If your fax machine is unable to recognize older
fax machine models, which do not transmit those
signals that are commonly used in today’s tech-
nology, you should advise your callers in your an-
swering message to press * and 5 followed by
START/COPY to commence the fax reception.
If the automatic fax reception is impossible,
press START/COPY to manually begin receiv-
ing the fax.
If your answering machine provides an “econo-
my function” (e.g. a function which changes the
number of ringing signals as soon as a message
was recorded), you should preferably switch this
function off.
It is possible that the answering machine not
only counts the messages received, but also the
number of fax calls.
Please ensure that the code for starting the fax
reception from other telephones (factory setting
* and 5) is not the same as for remote access
to recorded messages. Where necessary the code
for function 34 may be changed (see Hints and
Tips / Easylink).
If your answering machine accepts the call but
your fax machine does not stop ringing, try to
install your answering machine by serial connec-
tion, for example by connecting it to the same
telephone socket or to the EXT socket of your
fax machine (see chapter Installation / Addi-
tional devices).
If your answering machine cannot accept calls,
your fax machine will automatically start to re-
ceive faxes after the number of ringing signals set
in TOTAL RINGS: has been received.
If your external answering machine records fax
signals, but your fax machine cannot receive any
faxes, check the connection of your external an-
swering machine. Connect the external answering
machine to the same telephone socket or to the
EXT socket of your fax machine (see chapter
Installation / Additional devices).
