CHAPTERWhat’s Polling? 8-18Setting Up and Using PollingThis chapter shows you how to set up and use polling sending and receiving. Polling is useful when the sending party cannot be in the officeat 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 sendingand receiving, in polling the receiver always calls the sender. This is called polling to receive a document. The sender sendsthe document in response to the polling by a telephone 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 send a document that it isholding.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 poll those faxes to receivedocuments that they are holding.• If the other party is using a Canon fax machine which has the Polling ID function, ask them to set the Polling ID of their faxmachine to 255 (1111 1111 binary number). For details on the Polling ID, see the other party’s fax machine manual. In allother cases the Polling ID is not a concern.
