Making Forwarding Settings to Receive Faxes with Specified Conditions

You can make forwarding settings to a destination, an email address, shared folders or another fax machine from a specified sender or at a specified time. If you make settings to forward received faxes, first add the forwarding destination to the contacts list. To forward to an email address, you also need to configure the email server settings beforehand.

Configuring a Mail Server

Setting a Shared Network Folder

Making Contacts Available

Before you use the feature to forward received faxes at a specified time, make sure the printer's Date/Time and Time Difference settings are correct. Access the menu from Settings > General Settings > Basic Settings > Date/Time Settings.

Color documents cannot be forwarded to another fax machine. They are processed as documents that failed to be forwarded.

Note:
  • As well as using the printer's control panel, you can use Web Config to make forwarding settings to receive faxes. Select the Fax tab > Save/Forward Settings > Conditional Save/Forward, select the number of the confidential box, and then select Edit and make the forwarding destination settings.

  • You can also print and/or save received faxes at the same time. Make the settings on the Edit screen mentioned above.

  1. Select Settings on the printer's control panel, and then select General Settings > Fax Settings.

  2. Select Receive Settings > Save/Forward Settings > Conditional Save/Forward, and then tap on an unregistered box under Conditional Save/Forward.

  3. Select the Name box and enter the name you want to register.

  4. Select the Condition(s) box to make a condition setting.

    • Sender Fax Number match: If the incoming fax number matches the conditions you selected in this item, the printer saves and forwards the received faxes.
      Select the Sender Fax Number match condition and enter the fax number (max. 20 digits) by selecting the Fax Number box.
    • Subaddress(SUB) perfect match: If the subaddress (SUB) is a perfect match, the printer saves and forwards the received faxes.
      Enable the Subaddress(SUB) perfect match setting and enter the password by selecting the Subaddress(SUB) box.
    • Password(SID) perfect match: If the password (SID) is perfectly matched, the printer saves and forwards the received faxes.
      Enable the Password(SID) perfect match setting and input the password by selecting the Password(SID) box.
    • Receiving Time: The printer saves and forwards received faxes during the specified time period.
      Enable the Receiving Time setting and then set the time in Start Time and End Time.
  5. Select Save/Forward Destination, and then make settings for a forwarding destination.

    Select Forward.

    Select Yes. To print the documents automatically while forwarding them, select Yes and Print instead.

    Select Destination > Add Entry, and then select forwarding destinations from the contacts list. You can specify a forwarding destination.

    When you have finished selecting forwarding destinations, tap Close.

    Check that the forwarding destination you selected is correct, and then select Close.

    In Options When Forwarding Failed, select whether to print received documents or save them in the printer's Inbox when forwarding fails.

    Important:

    When the Inbox or a confidential box is full, receiving faxes is disabled. You should delete the documents from the inbox once they have been checked. The number of documents that have failed to be forwarded is displayed on the on the home screen, in addition to other unprocessed jobs.

  6. Select Close to complete the Save/Forward Destination Settings.

    Note:

    You can set the printer to send emails to people you want to notify about the results of forwarding faxes when the forwarding process is complete. As necessary, select Email Notifications, set the processes, and then select the destination to which you want to send notifications from the contacts list.

  7. Select OK until you return to the Save/Forward Settings screen to complete Conditional Save/Forward.

  8. Select the registered box for which you made a condition setting, and then select Enable.

This is completes making conditional saving settings to receive faxes. You can set Common Settings as necessary. For details, see the explanation for Common Settings in the Save/Forward Settings menu.

Note:
  • This completes making conditional forwarding settings to receive faxes. You can set Common Settings as necessary. For details, see the explanation for Common Settings in the Save/Forward Settings menu.

  • If you have selected a shared folder on a network or an email address as the forwarding destination, we recommend that you test if you can send a scanned image to the destination in the scan mode. Select Scan > Email, or Scan > Network Folder/FTP from the home screen, select the destination, and then start scanning.