Select Settings on the home screen on the printer's control panel.
To select an item, use the buttons, and then press the OK button.
Select Fax Settings > Fax Setting Wizard.
Following the on-screen instructions, enter the sender name such as your company name, your fax number.
Your sender name and your fax number appear as the header for outgoing faxes.
Make the distinctive ring detection (DRD) setting.
Distinctive ring services, offered by many telephone companies (the service name differs by company), allows you to have several phone numbers on one phone line. Each number is assigned a different ring pattern. You can use one number for voice calls and another for fax calls. Select the ring pattern assigned to fax calls in DRD.
Depending on the region, On and Off are displayed as the DRD options. Select On to use the distinctive ring feature.
Make the Receive Mode setting.
Check the settings you made on the screen displayed, and then proceed to the next screen.
To correct or change settings, press the button.
Check the fax connection by selecting Start Checking, and then select Print to print a report that shows the connection status.
If there are any errors reported, follow the instructions on the report to solve them.
If the Select Line Type screen is displayed, select the line type.
- When you are connecting the printer to a PBX phone system or terminal adapter, select PBX.
- When you are connecting the printer to a standard phone line, select PSTN. When the message to disable dial tone detection is shown on the screen, press the OK button. However, disabling dial tone detection may cause the printer to skip the first digit of a fax number when dialing and send the fax to the wrong number.