HP 2600/2700 User Manual
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Equipment/services
sharing your fax line
Recommended
Auto Answer
setting
Description
number of rings, see
A shared voice and fax
line and no answering
machine.
(You have a shared
phone line in which you
receive both voice and
fax calls.)
Off
The HP all-in-one will not automatically answer
calls. You must receive all faxes manually by
pressing
Start Black
or
Start Color
. For
information on receiving faxes manually, see
You might use this setting if the majority of calls
on this phone line are voice calls and you rarely
receive faxes.
Voice mail service
provided by your
telephone company.
Off
The HP all-in-one will not automatically answer
calls. You must receive all faxes manually by
pressing
Start Black
or
Start Color
. For
information on receiving faxes manually, see
An answering machine
and a shared voice and
fax line.
On
The answering machine will answer the call and
the HP all-in-one will monitor the line. If the
HP all-in-one detects fax tones, the HP all-in-
one will receive the fax.
Note
This is the recommended default setting
if you have an answering machine. Make
sure the answering machine is set up
properly with the HP all-in-one. For
information, see
Also, set your HP all-in-one to answer the
phone after the answering machine. The
number of rings to answer for the HP all-in-one
should be greater than the number of rings to
answer for the answering machine. You want
the answering machine to answer before your
HP all-in-one. For more information on setting
the number of rings to answer, see
number of rings before answering
Distinctive ringing
service.
On
The HP all-in-one automatically answers all
incoming calls.
Make sure the ring pattern the phone company
set for your fax line matches the
Answer Ring
Pattern
set for the HP all-in-one. For more
information, see
.
Chapter 11
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HP Photosmart 2600/2700 series all-in-one
Use the
fax
features