Muratec M860 - Manual (Page 22)

Getting Started
1.15
Sending Faxes
Some Guidelines
While you’ll probably be sending normal-sized documents the vast majority of the
time, you can fax a piece of paper as small as a notepad sheet or nearly a meter
long!
To be precise, the acceptable dimensions (width
×
length) are:
Single-sheet transmission:
Maximum: 216 mm
×
900 mm
Minimum: 120 mm
×
100 mm
Multiple-sheet transmission:
Maximum: 216 mm
×
279 mm
Minimum: 148 mm
×
105 mm
Things not to put in your fax
To help avoid troubles ranging from paper jams to out-and-out damage to your
machine, please don’t insert:
• Folded, curled, torn, wrinkled or very thin pages
• Documents carrying staples, glue, tape, paper clips or still-wet correction
fluid
• “Sticky notes” (or documents with “sticky note” attached)
• Cardboard, newspaper or fabric
• Pages with duplicating carbon on either side.
• Credit cards or similar small, thick items
Some thoughts on resolution, grayscale and contrast
Use mode/enter to select the proper resolution.
• Norm (Normal) resolution is suitable for most typed documents and simple
drawings.
• Fine (Fine) resolution is ideal for maps, moderately complicated drawings,
floorplans or handwritten documents.
• SFine (Superfine) resolution reproduces the detail of extremely complicated
drawings or line art.
• Gray (Grayscale) resolution is used to capture halftones in photographs or
drawings.
Note: You can send in superfine mode to any fax machine with Group 3
superfine; other fax machines will receive a superfine transmission in fine
mode. You can send in grayscale mode to any Group 3 machine, even
those without grayscale transmission capabilities.
Contrast
Use contrast/cancel to select the proper contrast.
• Normal ---- Suited to most documents.
• Light ---- Lightens overly dark, muddy originals.
• Dark ---- Darkens weak, “washed-out” images.
Note: Until becoming accustomed to using the Light and Dark settings, you
might tend to confuse them. Just remember what we say above ---- “Light
lightens” and “Dark darkens” ---- to keep it straight!
Entering a pause character when dialing
Your fax machine provides special dialing characters which you may find useful.
We’ll discuss most of them later (see page 2.4), but you may need to know now
about the pause character. Some long-distance systems require dialing pauses, and
pauses also can be useful when you’re dialing through special telephone
exchanges.
To insert a pause character, just press redial/pause (after you’ve dialed at least
one other character). --
⁄
(the pause character) will appear on the display.
Each pause you enter lasts for a factory-set five seconds.
For example, pressing
9 , redial/pause , 123456789 dials
9 [5-seconds] 123456789.
Important: Each pause uses two of the characters you’re allowed in a number.