Ricoh FAX 1190L User's Guide - Page 124

How Does FaxAbility Work? Your telephone number will have the standard ring pattern of long, long tone, while the new number will have a ring pattern of long, silence, long, etc. When FaxAbility is On, you will not hear the first ring of all incoming calls on the fax machine. Extension phones will ring as usual. If the fax machine recognizes the ring pattern, all ringing will stop and the fax machine will answer and automatically receive the fax message. Otherwise, you will hear the extension phones and the fax machine continue to ring. The fax machine always listens to the ring pattern before it answers, so do not pick up the phone during that time. You will quickly learn to recognize the ring pattern for faxes, so you will not be tempted to answer that number. Either you or a telephone answering device can answer the main number(s). Flowchart Sequence of Incoming call Incoming Call (either Voice or Fax) All extension phones ring, fax machine is silent. Registered Duet (Fax) Number Fax machine automatically receives and prints fax message without ringing. Main number (Voice Number) Fax machine begins ringing on third ring. You answer the call at an external phone or an extension phone. Telephone Answering Device (TAD) answers the call. Note After you have set the FaxAbility feature to On, the receive mode is set to Manual automatically. Unless you have a TAD or Voice Mail set up on the FaxAbility number, Manual mode means you must answer all the call yourself. You can not change the receive mode to the other mode while the FaxAbility is set to on. How to Turn FaxAbility OFF or ON The FaxAbility function is designed to accommodate the FaxAbility service provided by Telecom. To change the setting, repeat Steps 1-3; Step 2 is where you can select either On or Off. Call Waiting beeps caused by incoming calls on your main number can affect fax transmissions. If you have FaxAbility Service but don't have Call Waiting, you need do nothing at this stage. If you do have Call Waiting as well as FaxAbility, set the Call Waiting menu option to On. See below. 1 Press Menu/Set, 2, 0, 2. The screen displays 2.Faxability 2 Press ▲ or ▼ to set FaxAbility to On or Off. If you have FaxAbility service, select On. Press Menu/Set. 3 Press ▲ or ▼ to set Call Waiting to On or Off. If you have Call Waiting service, select On to avoid the trouble caused by Call Waiting. Press Menu/Set. 4 Press Stop/Exit. A - 9