Faxing

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faxing

This chapter gives you information about using your printer as a fax printer. 

This chapter includes:

•

Sending a fax

•

Receiving a fax

•

Other ways to fax

•

Fax setup

SENDING A FAX

Setting the fax header

In some countries, you are required by law to indicate your fax number on 
any fax you send. The printer ID, containing your telephone number and 

name or company name, will be printed at the top of each page sent from 

your printer.

1.

Press 

Menu

(

)

 until 

System Setup

 appears on the bottom line of the 

display and press 

OK

.

2.

Press 

OK 

when 

Machine Setup

 appears.

3.

Press 

OK 

when 

Machine ID

 appears.

4.

Enter your name or the company name using the number keypad. You 

can enter alphanumeric characters using the number keypad, and 

include special symbols by pressing the 

0

 button. For details on how to 

enter alphanumeric characters. See "Entering characters using the 

number keypad" on page 21.

5.

Press 

OK

 to save the ID.

6.

Press the left/right arrow until 

Machine Fax No

 appears and press 

OK

.

7.

Enter your fax number using the number keypad and press 

OK

.

8.

Press 

Stop/Clear

(

)

 to return to Ready mode.

Adjusting the document settings

Before starting a fax, change the following settings according to your 

original’s status to get the best quality.

Resolution

The default document settings produce good results when using typical 

text-based originals. However, if you send originals that are of poor 

quality, or contain photographs, you can adjust the resolution to produce 

a higher quality Fax.

1.

Press 

Resolution

. 

2.

Press 

Resolution

 or the left/right arrow until the option you want 

appears.

3.

Press 

OK

 to save your selection.

Recommended resolution settings for different original document types 
are described in the table below:

Darkness

You can select the default contrast mode to fax your originals lighter or 

darker.

1.

Press 

Fax

.

2.

Press 

Menu

(

)

, and then 

OK

 when 

Fax Feature

 appears on the 

bottom line of the display.

3.

Press 

OK

 when 

Darkness

 appears.

4.

Press the left/right arrow until the option you want appears and press 

OK

.

5.

Press 

Stop/Clear

(

)

 to return to Ready mode.

It is recommended that you use traditional analog phone services 

(PSTN: public switched telephone network) when connecting 

telephone lines to use Fax. If you use other Internet services (DSL, 

ISDN, VolP), you can improve the connection quality by using the 

Micro-filter. The Micro-filter eliminates unnecessary noise signals and 

improves connection quality or Internet quality. Since the DSL Micro-

filter is not provided with the printer, contact your Internet Service 

provider for use on DSL Micro-filter.

1

Line port

2

Micro filter

3

DSL modem / Telephone line

MODE

RECOMMENDED FOR:

Standard

Originals with normal sized characters.

Fine

Originals containing small characters or thin 

lines or originals printed using a dot-matrix 

printer.

Super Fine

Originals containing extremely fine detail. Super 

Fine mode is enabled only if the printer with 

which you are communicating also supports the 

Super Fine resolution.

•

For memory transmission, 

Super Fine

mode is not available. The resolution 

setting is automatically changed to 

Fine

.

•

When your printer is set to 

Super Fine

resolution and the fax printer with which 

you are communicating does not 

support 

Super Fine

 resolution, the 

printer transmits using the highest 

resolution mode supported by the other 

fax printer.

Photo Fax

Originals containing shades of gray or 

photographs.

The resolution setting is applied to the current fax job. To change the 

default setting. See "Changing the default document settings" on 

page 49.

The darkness setting is applied to the current fax job. To change 

the default setting. See "Changing the default document 

settings" on page 49.