Selecting A Receive Mode - Canon MX870 Series User Manual

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telephone company, your telephone company will assign two or more telephone numbers with

distinctive ring patterns to your single telephone line, allowing you to have different numbers for fax

calls and voice calls using only one telephone line. Your machine will automatically monitor the ring

pattern, and will automatically receive the fax if the ring pattern is a fax call.

To use DRPD, follow the procedure below to set the fax ring pattern that matches the pattern

assigned by your telephone company.

Contact your local telephone company for detailed information on this service.

Display the DRPD: FAX ring pattern screen.

Press the Setup button.

Select Device settings

Select FAX settings, and press the OK button.

Select Reception settings, and press the

Select DRPD: FAX ring pattern, and press the

Select the ring pattern.

Select the ring pattern that your telephone company assigned to your fax

Select from Normal ring, Double ring, Short-short-long, Short-long-short, or Other ring type.

Press the FAX button to return to the fax standby screen.

Selecting a Receive Mode

You can select the receive mode suitable for your fax use conditions: whether or not you receive

voice calls, and if you receive voice calls, how frequently you receive faxes or voice calls, etc.

Select the receive mode according to the following procedure.

Each mode has the option settings. Specify those settings if necessary.

For details, refer to the on-screen manual:

When receiving voice calls (with a telephone or answering machine

connected to the machine):

When mainly receiving a voice call:

TEL priority mode

When a call incomes, the telephone will ring.

- If the call is a voice call, pick up the handset.

- If the call is a fax, pick up the handset. When the machine starts receiving the fax, hang up the

- If the answering machine is connected, the message will respond when you do not pick up the

, and press the

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