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Polling

What is Polling?

In normal faxing, a fax machine sends a document to another fax

machine. With polling, a fax machine calls another fax machine and

requests that a document be sent to it; in other words, it “polls” that fax

machine.

Your FAX has the capability of functioning in both roles; it can poll

another fax machine to retrieve a document from it (polling receiving), or

it can hold a document in its polling box so that other fax machines can

poll your FAX and retrieve your document (polling sending).

Polling Receiving

In polling receiving, your FAX calls another fax machine and requests it

sends the document it is holding.

You may ﬁnd polling receiving convenient in the following situations:

❏ When you want to retrieve a document from an establishment, such

as bank or information service.

❏ When you want to retrieve a document from another fax machine at

your convenience.

❏ When you want to bear the transmission cost of receiving a

document.

Polling Another Fax Machine

Before polling another fax machine, be sure to read the following:

❏ The FAX can only poll fax machines that support polling.

❏ The document you want to retrieve must be ready to be polled on the

other party’s fax machine. If necessary, call the other party to check.

❏ Call the other party and check if you require a subaddress and/or

password to retrieve the document from their fax machine. If you do,

take note of them and register them together with the fax number for

speed dialling (→ Chapter 6). You can only poll with a

subaddress/password by using speed dialling. If you do not require a

subaddress/password, you can retrieve the document without having

to enter these numbers.

❏ If the other party is using a Canon fax machine and their unit does

not support subaddress/password transactions, ask them to set the

polling ID on their fax machine to 255 or 11111111 binary.

❏ You can poll several fax machines in one operation. Each polling

operation can retrieve documents from as many as 125 fax numbers.

❏ The subaddress/password must be an ITU-T standard

subaddress/password.

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Canon FAX-L280 User Manual Page 126