Canon PIXMA MX870 - Manual (Page 30)

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.
Note
Contact your local telephone company for detailed information on this service.
1. Display the DRPD: FAX ring pattern screen.
(1)
Press the Setup button.
(2)
Select Device settings , and press the OK button.
(3)
Select FAX settings, and press the OK button.
(4)
Select Reception settings, and press the OK button.
(5)
Select DRPD: FAX ring pattern, and press the OK button.
2. Select the ring pattern.
(1)
Select the ring pattern that your telephone company assigned to your fax
number.
Select from Normal ring, Double ring, Short-short-long, Short-long-short, or Other ring type.
(2)
Press the OK button.
3. 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:
Advanced Guide .
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. *1
- 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
handset.
- If the answering machine is connected, the message will respond when you do not pick up the
handset.
Note
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