HP 3100 HP LaserJet 3100 - Product User's Guide, C3948-90970 - Page 27

Note Deciding what else to connect In the last step, you connected the HP LaserJet 3100 product to the wall jack. Generally, there are only three other devices you might want or need to connect to this same jack: a telephone, an answering machine, and an external modem or computer with an internal modem. (Having and using both an internal computer modem and an external modem is a very rare situation.) Which, if any, of these you connect to this jack depends on your situation, which should be one of the following: Situation 1: You connected the HP LaserJet 3100 product to a jack for a phone line that receives only fax calls (a dedicated fax line). You do not need to connect any other devices. However, if you want to use the fax line for access to the Internet or e-mail, you may want to connect your external modem or computer with internal modem to the same jack as the HP LaserJet 3100 product. You may also want to connect an extra telephone to this jack if you would like to make outgoing voice calls on this phone line. See "Connecting other devices" later in this chapter. If you have another wall jack for this phone line, you can connect the extra phone and/or external modem or computer with internal modem to the other jack. Since this is a dedicated fax line, you should never have an answering machine or computer voicemail on it. If you are using computer voicemail, you must connect the computer with internal modem or the external modem to your dedicated voice line. You will access the Internet or e-mail using the dedicated voice line. 26 1 Set Up EN