Muratec F-65 - Manual (Page 52)

Relay broadcast initiation
Relay broadcasting is a powerful function that takes advantage of a remote “hub” to
reduce your total communication costs.
A “hub” fax machine is one to which you send a document, which in turn relays it to
other machines which you do not actually call. The “hub” performs a relay broad-
cast, and the machine which sends the original document to the “hub” has
performed a relay broadcast initiation.
Your fax machine does not have relay broadcast feature, but it does have relay
broadcast initiation.
How it works
Let’s say you’re in Los Angeles and need to fax the same document to four locations
in the Chicago area. You could send fax transmissions to each location, but that
would be four long-distance calls. With relay broadcast initiation, you send the doc-
ument once to your Chicago office’s “hub” fax, which then sends it on to each of the
four locations.
What happens when you perform relay broadcast initiation:
• You use your fax machine to send a document to at least one call group in a
remote “hub” machine’s autodialer. This can occur either immediately or as a
delayed command (see pages 2.14–2.15).
• The remote “hub” unit receives your document and stores it in memory.
• The remote machine retransmits — relays — the document to each fax number
in each call group you specified. This is the relay broadcast you initiated.
Setting up, a relay broadcast initiation
For you to perform relay broadcast initiation, three things must be true:
• The remote fax machine must be a Muratec fax machine with “hub” capability.
Note: If you are not sure whether the unit to which you want to transmit is a
true “hub” unit, please consult your authorized Muratec dealer.
• The call group(s) must exist on the remote fax machine.
• You must know each call group’s identifier number.
To set up a relay broadcast initiation:
1 Insert the document and make any necessary adjustments.
2 Press COM - OPTIONS three times.
3 Press ENTER .
Use the numeric keypad to enter the two-digit identifier of each call group you
want in the remote “hub” fax machine you will be calling. You can specify up
to 10 groups for each relay broadcast initiation. Do not press
START .
To add a group after the first one, press COM - OPTIONS to add a comma.
Below, we have entered 2, COM - OPTIONS , 4.
Important: Do not insert a comma after the last fax number.
Note: If you enter characters by mistake, just press CANCEL to clear them
before proceeding.
4 Press ENTER . The LCD shows:
5 Enter the fax number for the remote “hub” unit. You may either press a one-
touch key, enter a speed-dial number or just use the numeric keypad to enter
the number. Do not press
START .
6 What you do now depends upon when you want to begin initiating the
relay broadcast.
• If you want it to begin now, skip to step 9.
• If you want to delay it, press
COM - OPTIONS , COM - OPTIONS , ENTER .
Note: For more information on delayed transmission, see pages 2.14–2.15.
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Beyond the basics
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