9-2 Setting Up and Using Polling Chapter 9What’s Polling?Polling means a fax calls another fax and requests that the other fax senda document that it is holding. Unlike normal sending and receiving, inpolling the receiver always calls the sender. This is called polling toreceive a document. The sender sends the document in response to thepolling by a telephone call from the receiver.Your fax can be set up to function in both roles. Your fax can poll toreceive 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 110telephone numbers and poll those faxes to receive documents thatthey are holding.❏ You can poll a document at any time, but you may find it more usefulto set your fax for polling other faxes at specified times throughoutthe day.❏ You must know if the other fax is holding the document under both asubaddress and password or only a subaddress or password. Youmust also know the subaddress and password so you can enter themon your fax. If you do not know the subaddress or password, contactthe other party.❏ If the other party’s documents are registered for polling without asubaddress or password, you can still perform polling receiving.❏ If the other party’s fax does not support ITU-T subaddress/passwordtransactions, you can ask them to set the polling ID to 255 or 11111111binary when the other party’s fax machine is a Canon fax.N
