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Receive Modes Overview
| Mode | Function | Help |
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| Fax Auto | Each call recognized as fax and send fax signal. However, you can answer the call within the number of rings. | Factory setting of Ring Delay is four. After ringing four times, the fax machine send fax-receiving signals automatically; If your machine is connecting an external answering phone device, and often use it to answer incoming calls, you could set the ring time through four to six times. Within the recommended ringing times, you can use the external answering phone device to answer and talk. *1 |
| Fax/Tel | Automatically determine whether the incoming call is telephone or fax calls. Non-Fax call will make a pseudo/double-ring to inform you answer the phone. | Factory setting of Ring Delay is four. According to incoming call after the fax machine rings four times:
If your machine is connecting an external answering phone device, you could set the ringing time through four to six times to answer the call. *1 |
| External TAD | The external answering machine (TAD) automatically answers every call. Voice messages are stored on the external TAD. Fax messages are printed. | Use this mode if you have connected an external answering machine to your machine. The TAD setting works only with an external answering machine. Ring Delay do not work in this setting. |
| Manual | Machine doesn’t recognize each call, only as a common phone call that you need to determine after answering the phone. | Answering the call, or if the caller wants to send you a fax, press Mono Start (under easy mode) to receive faxes. If your machine is connecting an external answering phone device, you can use the external answering phone device to answer and talk. *1 |