Muratec MFX-1500 - Manual (Page 40)

Getting started
1.31
What if you answer a fax call?
With your fax machine in Fax/Tel Ready mode, you can easily use your fax machine
on the same line as the other telephone(s) already in your home or office.
Now, let’s deal with the two possible ways your phone(s) and your fax can live
happily together on one line:
• A phone connected directly (physically) to your fax machine (see page 1.12).
•
A phone, or phones, connected elsewhere in your home or office.
Using a phone connected to your fax machine
If you answer a connected phone and hear fax tones, simply press START and hang up
the handset. Your fax machine will go ahead and receive the fax call.
Using a phone not connected to your fax machine
Let’s say you have another telephone connected to the same line (“branch
connected”) as, but not physically to, your fax machine. If you answer a call on such
a phone and hear fax tones, here’s what to do to receive the incoming fax:
1. Don’t hang up the line! Instead, either:
• Put the telephone handset down (but --- again --- don’t hang it up)
. . . or . . .
•
If the telephone has a “hold” feature, put the phone on hold and then hang
up the handset.
2. Go to your fax machine.
3. Press MONITOR / CALL .
4. Press START .
5. Return to the telephone. If you didn’t put the phone on hold in step 1, hang up
its handset.
Tel/Fax Ready mode
Use it if: You’re using the machine as not only your fax machine but also a
telephone.
In this mode: Your fax machine will answer all calls after a number of rings you
determine (see page 2.4). If a caller sends a fax, your machine will
begin reception. If a voice call comes in, your machine detects it and
sounds a special ring for about 30 seconds. If you hear it, you’ll
know you should answer.
As its name implies, the Tel/Fax Ready reception mode is sort of a hybrid of the Tel
Ready and Fax Ready modes.
To select Tel/Fax Ready:
1. Press COPY / FAX to change to the Fax mode, if the machine isn’t the fax mode.
2. Press PROGRAM , I , and then ENTER five times. The LCD will show your
current reception mode.
Fax Ready
Program/Enter
3. To change the reception mode, press PROGRAM repeatedly until “Fax/Tel
Ready” appears.
Tel/Fax Ready
Program/Enter
4. Press ENTER to save the setting.
5. Press STOP to return the machine to standby mode.
In Tel/Fax Ready mode, the Auto Answer light is lit.