8-10 Receiving Faxes Chapter 8
Receiving With the Distinctive Ring
Pattern Detection Feature: DRPD
Some telephone companies offer a Distinctive Ring Pattern (DRP) service whereby
they assign two or more telephone numbers with distinctive ring patterns to a single
telephone line. If your telephone company offers such a service, you can have both a
fax number(s) and a telephone number(s) for your unit using only one telephone line.
Your unit will automatically monitor incoming calls and based on the distinctive ring
pattern, it will determine if the call is from a fax machine trying to send a document or
from a telephone trying to make a voice call.
Use the information in this section to set up your unit for use with a DRP service. For
more details on the DRP service, contact your local telephone company. (Your
telephone company may have a different name for this service. Also, this service may
not be offered in all areas.)
Ring Patterns
Your telephone company will assign a distinctive ring pattern to each number when you
order the DRP service. The setting you make in the unit must match the setting
assigned by the telephone company.
You can set your unit for the following ring patterns:
• NORMAL RING
Ring type of normal telephone line (Recommended for voice calls.)
• DOUBLE RING
Two short rings at regular intervals (Recommended for fax calls.)
• SHORT-SHORT-LONG (Triple ring)
Short-short-long rings at regular intervals
• SHORT-LONG-SHORT (Triple ring)
Short-long-short rings at regular intervals
• OTHER RING TYPE
Patterns other than those described above
Setting DRPD
Follow this procedure to set the receive mode to DRPD:
1 Open the one-touch speed dial panel.
2 Press Data Registration.
DATA REGSTRATION
