Panasonic KX-F3100 - Manual (Page 179)

Additional Feature for Distinctive Ring Service
This unit has been equipped with a ring pattern detection feature, which allows more effective
use of the distinctive ring service provided by some telephone companies.
The distinctive ring service provides up to 3 phone numbers on your regular single telephone
line, each with a different ringing pattern. You may use one of the phone numbers as a facsimile
number. With the ring pattern detection feature, your unit will detect its own distinctive ringing
pattern and automatically activate the fax function to receive documents. If other calls come in,
the unit will answer in the receiving mode selected by the RECEIVE MODE button.
■ The table below shows how the unit answers when receiving calls.
Receiving cali
Receiving mode of your unit
ANS/FAX TEUFAX FAX TEL
A call with
distinctive ringing
pattern The unit activates
the fax function.* The unit activates
the fax function.**
The unit activates
the fax function. The unit rings
until you pick up.
If you do not
answer the call
until 15 rings, the
unit automatically
switch to the
ANS/FAX mode.
Other call The unit activates
as an answering
device and/or
facsimile.*
The unit will ring
until you pick up.
* The unit answers the call depending on the setting of the number of rings in the ANS/FAX
mode.
** When the unit receives a call with its own distinctive ringing pattern in the TEL/FAX mode,
other reserve phone, if connected on the same line, will ring before the unit answers the call.
To change the number of rings, see page 162.
Programming your unit with distinctive ringing pattern
To activate this feature, program the ringing pattern of the phone number to be used as a
facsimile number.
Ringing patterns that can be programmed:
A: Standard ring
B: Double ring
C: Triple ring (Short-long-short)
D: Other triple ring
OFF: De-activated this feature (pre-selected setting)
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