Muratec F-150 - Manual (Page 21)

1.13
Getting started
Some guidelines
How big — and small — your pages can be
While you’ll probably be sending normal-sized documents the vast majority of the
time, you can fax a piece of paper as small as a notepad sheet or nearly 3
′
long!
To be precise, the acceptable dimensions (width
×
length) are:
S INGLE - SHEET TRANSMISSION M ULTIPLE - SHEET TRANSMISSION
Maximum: 11.0 ″ × 35.4 ″ Maximum: 10.1 ″ × 14.4 ″
Minimum: 5.8 ″ × 4.1 ″ Minimum: 5.8 ″ × 4.1 ″
Things not to put in your fax
To help avoid troubles ranging from paper jams to out-and-out damage to your
machine, please don’t insert:
• Folded, curled, torn, wrinkled or very thin pages
• Documents with staples, glue, tape, paper clips or still-wet correction fluid
• “Sticky notes” (or documents with “sticky notes” attached)
• Cardboard, newspaper or fabric
• Pages with duplicating carbon on either side
• Credit cards or similar small, thick items
Some thoughts on resolution, grayscale and contrast
Reviewing resolution and grayscale
• Normal resolution (“ NORM ” on the control panel) is suitable for most typed docu-
ments and simple drawings.
• Fine resolution (“ FINE ” on the control panel) is ideal for maps, moderately compli-
cated drawings, floorplans or handwritten documents.
• Superfine resolution (“ S - FINE ” on the control panel; “S Fine” on the LCD ) repro-
duces the detail of extremely complicated drawings or line art.
• Grayscale mode (“ HALFTONE ” on the control panel; “Gray” on the LCD ) captures
shades in photos and drawings.
Note: If you send a fax in superfine, certain fax models (especially older, non-
Muratec models) will receive it only in fine mode. However, you can send a
fax in grayscale mode to virtually any fax machine currently in use.
Contrast
The rightmost item appearing on the LCD (when there’s a document in the feeder) is
the contrast setting. You have three choices:
• Normal (“
NORM ” on the control panel) — Suited to most documents.
• Light — Lightens up overly dark, “muddy” original documents.
• Dark — Darkens weak, “washed-out” images.
Note: Until you become accustomed to using the Light and Dark settings, you
might tend to confuse them. Just remember what we say above — “Light
lightens” and “Dark darkens” — to keep it straight!
Entering a pause character when dialing
Your fax machine provides special dialing characters which you may find useful.
We’ll discuss most of them later (see page 2.8), but you may need to know now
about the pause character. Some long-distance systems require dialing pauses, and
pauses can be useful also when you’re dialing through special telephone exchanges.
To insert a pause character, just press
REDIAL / PAUSE (after you’ve dialed at least one
other character). -/ (the pause character) will appear on the display.
Each pause you enter lasts for a factory-set five seconds (see “Changing the pause
length,” next page, for how to change this setting).
For example, assuming the pause is at the factory setting, pressing 9,
REDIAL / PAUSE , 19725552009 dials 9 [5-second pause] 1 9 7 2 5 5 5 2 0 0 9.
Important: Each pause uses two of the characters you’re allowed in a number.
Sending faxes