DELL 1235cn User Manual

Faxing  | 41

1. Press Fax.
2. Press Menu until Fax Setup appears on the bottom line of the display 

and press OK.

3. Press the left/right arrow until Receiving appears and press OK.
4. Press OK when Receive Mode appears.
5. Press the left/right arrow until the fax reception mode you want appears.

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In Fax mode, the printer answers an incoming fax call and 
immediately goes into the fax reception mode. 

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In Tel mode, you can receive a fax by pressing On Hook Dial and 
then Color Start or Black Start. You can also pick up the handset of 
the extension phone and then press the remote receive code. 
See "Receiving manually using an extension telephone" on page 41.

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In Ans/Fax mode, an answering printer attached to your printer 
answers an incoming call, and the caller can leave a message on the 
answering printer. If the fax machine senses a fax tone on the line, 
the printer automatically switches to Fax mode to receive the fax. 
See "Receiving automatically in Ans/Fax mode" on page 41.

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In DRPD mode, you can receive a call using the Distinctive Ring 
Pattern Detection (DRPD) feature. Distinctive Ring is a telephone 
company service which enables an user to use a single telephone 
line to answer several different telephone numbers. For further 
details, see "Receiving faxes using DRPD mode" on page 41.

6. Press OK to save your selection.
7. Press Stop/Clear to return to ready mode.

Your printer is preset to Fax mode at the factory. When you receive a fax, 
the printer answers the call on a specified number of rings and automatically 
receives the fax. 

To change the number of rings, see "Ring to Answer" on page 43.

You can receive a fax call by pressing On Hook Dial and then pressing 
Black Start or Color Start

when you hear a fax tone from the remote 

printer.

The printer begins receiving a fax and returns to ready mode when the 
reception is completed.

This features works best when you are using an extension telephone 
connected to the EXT socket on the back of your printer. You can receive a 
fax from someone you are talking to on the extension telephone without 
going to the fax machine.

When you receive a call on the extension phone and hear fax tones, press 
the keys *9* on the extension phone. The printer receives the fax.

Press the buttons slowly in sequence. If you still hear the fax tone from the 
remote printer, try pressing *9* once again.

*9* is the remote receive code preset at the factory. The first and the last 
asterisks are fixed, but you can change the middle number to whatever you 
wish. For details about changing the code, see "Rcv Start Code" on 
page 43.

To use this mode, you must attach an answering printer to the EXT socket 
on the back of your printer. 

If the caller leaves a message, the answering printer stores the message as 
it would normally. If your printer detects a fax tone on the line, it 
automatically starts to receive the fax.

Distinctive Ring is a telephone company service which enables an user to 
use a single telephone line to answer several different telephone numbers. 
The particular number someone uses to call you is identified by different 
ringing patterns, which consist of various combinations of long and short 
ringing sounds. This feature is often used by answering services who 
answer telephones for many different clients and need to know which 
number someone is calling in on to properly answer the phone.

Using the Distinctive Ring Pattern Detection (DRPD) feature, your fax 
machine can learn the ring pattern you designate to be answered by the fax 
machine. Unless you change it, this ringing pattern will continue to be 
recognized and answered as a fax call, and all other ringing patterns will be 
forwarded to the extension telephone or answering printer 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.
2. Press Menu until Fax Setup appears on the bottom line of the display 

and press OK.

3. Press the left/right arrow until Receiving appears and press OK.
4. Press the left/right arrow until DRPD Mode appears and press OK. 

Waiting Ring appears on the display.

5. Call your fax number from another telephone. It is not necessary to 

place the call from a fax machine. 

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To use the Ans/Fax mode, attach an answering printer to the EXT 
socket on the back of your printer. 

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If you do not want other people to view your received documents, 
you can use secure receiving mode. In this mode, all of the 
received faxes are stored in memory. For further details, 
see "Receiving in secure receiving mode" on page 42.

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If you have set your printer to Ans/Fax mode and your answering 
printer is switched off, or no answering printer is connected to EXT 
socket, your printer automatically goes into Fax mode after a 
predefined number of rings.

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If your answering printer has a user-selectable ring counter, set the 
printer to answer incoming calls within 1 ring. 

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If you are in Tel mode (manual reception) when the answering 
printer is connected to your printer, you must switch off the 
answering printer, or the outgoing message from the answering 
printer will interrupt your phone conversation.