HP Officejet 6500A - Page 13

Set up and use fax 11
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Send a fax from an extension phone
1. Load the document you want to fax in the printer.
You can fax either from the automatic document feeder
(ADF) or from the scanner glass.
2. Touch Fax.
3. Dial the number by using the keypad on the phone that
is connected to the printer.
Note: Do not use the keypad on the control panel of
the printer when manually sending a fax. You must
use the keypad on your phone to dial the recipient’s
number.
4. If the recipient answers the telephone, you can engage
in a conversation before sending the fax.
Note: If a fax machine answers the call, you will hear
fax tones from the receiving fax machine. Proceed to
the next step to transmit the fax
5. When you are ready to send the fax, touch Start Black
or Start Color.
Note: If prompted, select Send Fax.
If you were speaking with the recipient before sending the
fax, inform the recipient that they should press Start on
their fax machine after they hear fax tones. The telephone
line is silent while the fax is transmitting. At this point,
you can hang up the telephone. If you want to continue
speaking with the recipient, remain on the line until the fax
transmission is complete.
Learn more!
See the user guide for more information about the
following topics:
•
Reprint received faxes from memory
•
Poll to receive a fax
•
Forward faxes to another number
•
Set the paper size for received faxes
•
Set automatic reduction for incoming faxes
•
Block junk fax numbers
The user guide is available on your computer after
you install the software.
Receive faxes
You can receive faxes automatically or manually.
Note: If you receive a legal-size or larger fax and
the printer is not currently set to use legal-size paper,
the printer reduces the fax so that it ts on the paper
that is loaded. If you have disabled the Automatic
Reduction feature, the printer prints the fax on two
pages.
If you are copying a document when a fax arrives, the fax
is stored in the printer’s memory until the copying nishes.
As a result, the number of fax pages that can be stored in
memory might be reduced.
Faxes and your voice mail service
If you subscribe to a voicemail service on the same
phone line that you will use for faxing, you cannot
receive faxes automatically. Instead, you must receive
make sure the Auto Answer setting is turned off so that
you can receive faxes manually. Be sure you initiate the
manual fax before the voicemail picks up the line.
If you want to receive faxes automatically instead,
contact your telephone company to subscribe to a
distinctive ring service or to obtain a separate phone
line for faxing.
Receive a fax automatically
If you turn on the Auto Answer option (the default setting)
from the printer’s control panel, the printer automatically
answers incoming calls and receives faxes after the number
of rings specied by the Rings to Answer setting. For
information about conguring this setting, see ”Step 3:
Congure fax settings” on page 8.