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How Remote Fax Works

You can send and receive faxes from a machine that does not have a fax function if you can use the remote fax function to connect to a machine that has a fax function. You can instruct a remote machine to send a fax by displaying the [Remote Fax] screen on your machine. From the [Remote Fax] screen, you can send scanned documents to the remote machine and instruct it to fax the document.

Remote fax transmissions are possible on a G3 line.

On your machine you can also set the user tools for the remote fax function and add fax numbers to the Address Book of your machine.

For details about the optional units required for this function, see "Functions Requiring Optional Configurations", Getting Started.

To use this function, follow the procedure below:

  1. Connect the client-side machine to the remote machine over the network.

  2. In [Program/Change/Delete Remote Machine] on the System Settings menu on the remote machine, specify the IP address or the host name of the client-side machine.

    If you cannot register the client-side machine on the remote machine, check the client-side machine's settings. You cannot register the client-side machine if another machine is registered in [Program/Change/Delete Remote Machine] on the client-side machine.

  3. In [Program/Change/Delete Remote Machine] on the System Settings menu on the client-side machine, specify the IP address or the host name of the remote machine.

Note

  • For details about how to connect the machine to a network, see "Connecting the Machine", Connecting the Machine/ System Settings.

  • If using user authentication, select the same authentication method between the client-side machine and the remote machine.

  • For details about the machine's authentication settings, see Security Guide.

  • For details about how to specify the IP address or the host name of the remote machine, see "Administrator Tools", Connecting the Machine/ System Settings.