Canon L380S - Manual (Page 97)

CHAPTER
What’s Polling? 8-1
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Setting Up and Using Polling
This chapter shows you how to set up and use polling sending and receiving. Polling is useful when the sending party
cannot be in the office at the same time.
What’s Polling?
Polling means a fax calls another fax and requests the other fax to send a document that it is holding.
Unlike normal sending and receiving, in polling the receiver always calls the sender. This is called
polling to receive a document. The sender sends the document in response to the polling by a
telephone call from the receiver.
NOTE
Your fax can be set up to function in both roles. Your fax can poll to receive a document, or it can be polled to send
a document that it is holding.
Before You Use Polling Receiving
Before you try to set up polling, note the following points:
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With one operation you can poll several faxes. You can dial up to 141 telephone numbers (210
telephone numbers for the FAX-L390 model) and poll those faxes to receive documents that they are
holding.
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If the other party is using a Canon fax machine which has the Polling ID function, ask them to set the
Polling ID of their fax machine to 255 (1111 1111 binary number). For details on the Polling ID, see
the other party’s fax machine manual. In all other cases the Polling ID is not a concern.