Sharp AR-M237 AR-M237 AR-M277 Operation Manual Suite - Page 150

TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION USING THE POLLING FUNCTION This function can only be used if the other machine is a Super G3 or G3 machine and supports the polling function. The polling function allows your machine to call a fax machine that has a document ready for transmission and initiate reception of the document. You can also perform the reverse operation: scan a document into the memory of your machine so that another machine can call your machine and initiate reception of the document. Calling the sending machine and asking the sending machine to fax a document is called "polling". Scanning a document into memory and automatically sending it when the receiving machine calls and "polls" your machine is called "polling memory". Note For information on polling and polling memory using F-codes, refer to "F-CODE POLLING MEMORY" (p.54). This section only explains regular polling and regular polling memory. Polling This function allows your machine to call a sending machine and initiate reception of a document in that machine. A timer setting can also be established to have the operation take place at night or at another specified time. (p.30) Your machine The other machine 1 Polling (ask other machine to send document) 2 Permits polling 3 Document data previously scanned into memory 4 Document data is automatically sent to your machine Group keys and the broadcast transmission function (p.26) can be used to successively poll multiple fax machines in a single operation (serial polling). Up to 200 machines can be polled. In this case, the sequence of operations in the above diagram is successively repeated for each sending machine selected. Note The receiving machine bears the expense (phone charges) of polling transmission. 32