Panasonic KX-FPC161 User Manual

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Distinctive Ring
Important:
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When you have a single telephone line and subscribe to a telephone company’s voice
mail service, you must also subscribe to the Distinctive Ring Service if you want to
receive faxes automatically as well as voice messages. For more information about
telephone services, contact your telephone company.
When you subscribe to Distinctive Ring Service, your telephone company will assign you a new
fax number and will also tell you the assigned ring pattern. Please complete the following setup
on your fax machine to identify the assigned ring pattern.
1
Press
.
Display:
2
Press 
, then 
.
3
Press 
or 
to select the ring pattern
assigned by the telephone company.
A: Standard ring (one long ring)
B: Double ring (two short rings) (default 
setting)
C: Triple ring (short-long-short-rings)
D: Other triple ring (short-short-long rings)
OFF: Turns off the feature
4
Press 
.
5
Press 
to exit the program.
MENU
SETUP ITEM [  ]
SET
RING DETECTION
MODE=B
[±]
3 1
SYSTEM SET UP
PRESS NAVI.[
I H
]
MENU
SET
MENU
Note:
Once you have programmed the assigned ring pattern
into the fax machine, turn AUTO ANSWER off so that
the fax machine is in TEL mode. 
In TEL mode, the fax machine will recognize incoming
faxes on the first ring pattern and answer automatically.
For phone calls, the fax machine will ring as a normal
call.
Using with a voice mail service
!