Sharp MX-FX13 User Manual

The polling function allows your machine to call a fax machine that has a document ready for transmission and 
initiate reception of the document. You can also perform the reverse operation: scan a document into the memory of 
your machine so that another machine can call your machine and initiate reception of the document.
Calling the sending machine and asking the sending machine to fax a document is called "polling". Scanning a document into 
memory and automatically sending it when the receiving machine calls and "polls" your machine is called "polling memory".
This function can only be used if the other machine is a Super G3 or G3 machine and supports the polling function.

This function allows your machine to call another fax machine and initiate reception of a document in that machine. A timer setting can 
also be specified to have the operation take place at night or at another specified time. (See "TIMER TRANSMISSION" on page 33.)

Group keys and the broadcast transmission function (page 31) can be used to successively poll multiple fax 
machines in a single operation (this is called "serial polling"). Up to 200 machines can be polled.
In this case, the sequence of operations in the above diagram is successively repeated for each sending machine selected.

This feature allows your machine to automatically send a document previously scanned into memory when another 
machine calls and polls your machine.

For information on polling and polling memory using F-codes, see "HOW F-CODE POLLING MEMORY WORKS" 
(page 54). Normal polling and memory polling are explained in this chapter.

The receiving machine bears the expense (phone charges) of polling transmission.

The machine that requests transmission bears the expense (phone charges) of the call.

2) Permits polling of.

1) Polling (ask other machine 

to send document)

4) Document data is automatically 

sent to your machine

3) Document data previously 

scanned into memory

2) Permits polling of.

3) Document data previously 

scanned into memory

1) Polling 

(request transmission)

4) Document data is 

automatically sent to 
other machine