What’s Polling?8-1CHAPTER8Setting Up and Using PollingThis chapter shows you how to set up and use polling sending and receiving. Polling is useful when one or bothparties cannot be in the office at the same time.What’s Polling?Polling means a fax calls another fax and requests the other fax to send a document that it is holding.Unlike normal sending and receiving, in polling the receiver always calls the sender. This is calledpolling to receive a document. The sender sends the document in response to the polling by atelephone call from the receiver.NOTEYour fax can be set up to function in both roles. Your fax can poll to receive a document, or it can be polled to senda document that it is holding.Before You Use Polling ReceivingBefore you try to set up polling, note the following points:• With one operation you can poll several faxes. You can dial up to 142 telephone numbers and pollthose faxes to receive documents that they are holding.• If the other party is using a Canon fax machine which has the Polling ID function, ask them to set thePolling ID of their fax machine to 255 (1111 1111 binary number). For details on the Polling ID, seethe other party’s fax machine manual. In all other cases the Polling ID is not a concern.
