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Fax
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Fax Procedure
This section describes the basic fax operations. The following shows the fax flow and
reference sections.
Step 1 Loading Documents .........................................................................................................98
Step 2 Selecting Features ..........................................................................................................100
Step 3 Specifying the Destination.............................................................................................101
Step 4 Starting the Fax Job .......................................................................................................102
Step 5 Confirming the Fax Job in the Job Status ......................................................................103
Step 1 Loading Documents
There are two methods for loading documents:
Document feeder
z
Single sheet
z
Multiple sheets
Document glass
z
Single sheet
z
Bound documents, such as books
Document Feeder
The document feeder supports single sheet and multiple sheet documents, with sizes
ranging from 139.7 x 210 mm (A5, 5.5 x 8.5 inches) to a maximum of 297 x 600 mm
(long) (A3, 11 x 17 inches).
The document feeder automatically detects documents of standard-size widths.
Note • The standard document sizes that can be detected automatically depend on the [Paper Size
Settings] in the System Administration mode. For information on the paper size settings,
refer to "Paper Size Settings" (P.282).
The sizes on the left are converted into sizes shown on the right.
z
8-inch width document J B5 width document
z
10-inch width document J B4 width document
The document feeder accepts the following number of sheets.
For information on faxing mixed size documents, refer to "Mixed Size Originals (Scanning Different
Size Documents Simultaneously)" (P.122).
Important • Place folded or creased documents on the document glass to avoid paper jams.
• Two-sided scanning of lightweight paper documents (38 - 48 g/m
2
) is not supported.
Document Type (Weight)
Number of
Sheets
Lightweight paper (38 - 49 g/m
2
)75
Plain paper (50 - 80 g/m
2
)75
Heavyweight paper (81 - 128 g/m
2
)50