Chapter 8 Receiving Faxes 8-9Receiving Faxes If you hear a beep tone or silence:4 Someone is trying to send you a fax.Press Start/Copy on your FAX andhang up to begin receiving thedocument.• If you are using the telephone and it islocated away from your unit, dial 25 (thedefault remote receiving ID) on yourtelephone and hang up. If you hear a voice:4 Start your conversation. If the callerwants to send a fax after talking toyou, ask them to press the start buttonon their fax machine.5 When you hear a beep, pressStart/Copy on your FAX and hang upto begin receiving the document.• If you are using the telephone and it islocated away from your unit, dial 25 (thedefault remote receiving ID) on yourtelephone and hang up.n• If using the handset, be sure to hang up after you press Start/Copy on the FAX,otherwise the call will be disconnected.• The FAX will alert you by beeping if the handset is not hung up properly. Make sure thehandset is seated properly in its cradle. If you do not want the FAX to beep, disable theOFFHOOK ALARM setting (1 p. 14-4).• If you cannot activate reception from the telephone, check that the REMOTE RX setting isenabled (1 p. 14-7).• You can change the remote receiving ID (1 REMOTE RX ID, p. 14-7), or disable remotereceiving (1 REMOTE RX, p. 14-7).• If you have an answering machine connected to your FAX that can carry out remote-control operations (controlling your answering machine from a remote telephone), thesecurity code for this function may be the same as the remote receiving ID of your FAX. Ifthis is the case, make sure you change the FAX’s remote receiving ID to make it distinctfrom the answering machine’s security code (1 REMOTE RX ID, p. 14-7).
