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Problems with sending faxes, Problem, Cause, Solution

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Problems with sending faxes Problem Cause Solution Faxes quit during sending. The fax machine to which you are sending might be malfunctioning. Try sending to another fax machine. Your phone line might not be working. Disconnect the fax accessory from the phone jack, and connect a phone. Try to make a phone call to ensure the phone line is working. Your phone line might be noisy or poor quality Try using a lower baud rate to improve the reliability of transmission. See maximum baud rate setting. A call-waiting feature might be active Verify that the fax telephone line does not have an activated call-waiting feature. A call-waiting notice can interrupt a fax call in progress, which causes a communication error. The fax accessory is receiving faxes but is not sending them. If the fax accessory is on a PBX system, the PBX system might be generating a dial tone the fax accessory cannot detect. Disable the detect dial tone setting. There might be a poor phone connection. Try again later. The fax machine to which you are sending might be malfunctioning. Try sending to another fax machine. Your phone line might not be working. Disconnect the fax accessory from the phone jack, and connect a phone. Try to make a phone call to ensure the phone line is working. Outgoing fax calls keep dialing. The fax accessory automatically redials a fax number if the Redial on Busy option is set to on or if the Redial On No Answer is set on. This is normal operation. If you do not want the fax to retry, set Redial on Busy to 0 and set Redial On No Answer to 0. Faxes you send are not arriving at the The receiving fax machine might be receiving fax machine. turned off or might have an error condition, such as being out of paper. Call the recipient to make sure the fax machine is turned on and ready to receive faxes. A fax might be in memory because it is waiting to redial a busy number, or there are other jobs ahead of it waiting to be sent. If a fax job is in memory for either of these reasons, an entry for the job appears in the fax log. Print the fax activity log, and check the Result column for jobs with a Pending designation. ENWW Problems with sending faxes 55

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Problems with sending faxes
Problem
Cause
Solution
Faxes quit during sending.
The fax machine to which you are
sending might be malfunctioning.
Try sending to another fax machine.
Your phone line might not be working.
Disconnect the fax accessory from the
phone jack, and connect a phone. Try to
make a phone call to ensure the phone
line is working.
Your phone line might be noisy or poor
quality
Try using a lower baud rate to improve
the reliability of transmission. See
maximum baud rate setting.
A call-waiting feature might be active
Verify that the fax telephone line does not
have an activated call-waiting feature. A
call-waiting notice can interrupt a fax call
in progress, which causes a
communication error.
The fax accessory is receiving faxes
but is not sending them.
If the fax accessory is on a PBX system,
the PBX system might be generating a
dial tone the fax accessory cannot
detect.
Disable the detect dial tone setting.
There might be a poor phone connection.
Try again later.
The fax machine to which you are
sending might be malfunctioning.
Try sending to another fax machine.
Your phone line might not be working.
Disconnect the fax accessory from the
phone jack, and connect a phone. Try to
make a phone call to ensure the phone
line is working.
Outgoing fax calls keep dialing.
The fax accessory automatically redials
a fax number if the Redial on Busy option
is set to on or if the Redial On No Answer
is set on.
This is normal operation. If you do not
want the fax to retry, set Redial on Busy
to 0 and set Redial On No Answer to 0.
Faxes you send are not arriving at the
receiving fax machine.
The receiving fax machine might be
turned off or might have an error
condition, such as being out of paper.
Call the recipient to make sure the fax
machine is turned on and ready to
receive faxes.
A fax might be in memory because it is
waiting to redial a busy number, or there
are other jobs ahead of it waiting to be
sent.
If a fax job is in memory for either of these
reasons, an entry for the job appears in
the fax log. Print the fax activity log, and
check the
Result
column for jobs with a
Pending
designation.
ENWW
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