HP 640 User Guide - Page 34

Answer/receive mode, Rcv.Mode/Contrast, Distinctive ring DRPD, Set rings to answer

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Answer/receive mode Answer/receive mode How the product receives faxes depends on the answer/receive mode you chose when you set up the product. You can send faxes in any answer/receive mode. The answer/ receive mode setting determines how the device answers the incoming call. How are you going to use your HP Fax? • Fax machine with few or no voice calls. • Telephone and fax machine without an external answering machine connected. • As a fax machine with an external answering machine. • Using Distinctive Ring (DRPD) service to set up a separate telephone number for your fax on the same physical line as your other numbers. • Telephone with few or no fax calls. Read about... FAX mode AUTO mode TAM mode See Distinctive ring (DRPD) on page 27. TEL mode S When no document is loaded, press the Rcv.Mode/Contrast button until the desired option displays. • FAX mode • AUTO mode • In Ready mode, FAX appears in the right hand corner of the display. • When you get a call, the machine answers and receives the fax automatically. When reception is complete, the machine returns to Ready mode. • If you want to change the number of rings before it answers, see Set rings to answer on page 23. • In Ready mode, AUTO appears in the right hand corner of the display. • When a call comes in, the machine answers it. If a fax is being sent, the device receives the fax. If the machine does not sense a fax signal, it will ring 5 times in a different tone to tell you it may be a regular telephone call. If you do not pick up the handset it will try again to receive a fax after several more rings. • If you want to change the number of rings before it answers, see Set rings to answer on page 23. 28 Additional features

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Additional features
Answer/receive mode
Answer/receive mode
How the product receives faxes depends on the answer/receive mode you chose when
you set up the product. You can send faxes in any answer/receive mode. The answer/
receive mode setting determines how the device answers the incoming call.
When no document is loaded, press the
Rcv.Mode/Contrast
button until the desired
option displays.
How are you going to use your HP Fax?
Read about...
Fax machine with few or no voice calls.
FAX mode
Telephone and fax machine without an
external answering machine connected.
AUTO mode
As a fax machine with an external
answering machine.
TAM mode
Using Distinctive Ring (DRPD) service to
set up a separate telephone number for
your fax on the same physical line as
your other numbers.
See
Distinctive ring (DRPD)
on
page 27.
Telephone with few or no fax calls.
TEL mode
FAX
mode
In Ready mode,
FAX
appears in the right hand corner of the
display.
When you get a call, the machine answers and receives the fax
automatically. When reception is complete, the machine returns to
Ready mode.
If you want to change the number of rings before it answers,
see
Set rings to answer
on page 23.
AUTO
mode
In Ready mode,
AUTO
appears in the right hand corner of the
display.
When a call comes in, the machine answers it. If a fax is being
sent, the device receives the fax. If the machine does not sense a
fax signal, it will ring 5 times in a different tone to tell you it may be
a regular telephone call. If you do not pick up the handset it will try
again to receive a fax after several more rings.
If you want to change the number of rings before it answers,
see
Set rings to answer
on page 23.