HP Hewlett Packard 1020xi Plain Paper Fax Machine Users Manual

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2Setting Up to Receive Faxes
Follow these instructions to finish setting up your HP Fax 1020 Series to 
receive faxes. How the product receives faxes depends on the answer 
mode you chose when you set up the product.
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Fax machine with few or no voice calls. See “FAX” on page 8.
Telephone and fax machine using the 
internal answering machine.See “TAM/FAX” on page 8.
Using Distinctive Ring service to set up a 
separate telephone number for your fax.See...

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Setting the Answer Mode
You can send faxes in any answer mode. The answer mode setting 
determines how the product answers the incoming call. Press the Answer 
Mode button until the light shows under the desired option.
Setting the TAM/FAX Ring
If you have set the Answer Mode to TAM/FAX (“Setting the Answer Mode” 
on page 8), you can use this function to select the number of times the 
telephone will ring before the answering machine will answer.
 
See
 “Answering Machine” on page 25...

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1Press Menu.
1:Fax Functions will display.
2Press 5.
5:Rings & Volume will display.
3Press Enter. 
1:TAM/FAX Ring will display.
4Press Enter.
Toll Saver  * will display.
5 Use the arrow buttons (W X) to choose the number of rings to occur 
before the answering machine answers and press Enter.
The options are 1 through 6 and Toll Saver. Toll Saver is 
the default.


0Toll Saver allows you to save on telephone charges. The 
telephone will ring 4 times before the...

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Setting the FAX Ring
If you have set the Answer Mode to FAX (“Setting the Answer Mode” on 
page 8), the product will answer the incoming call as a fax machine. 
Important: You can answer this line as a telephone only if you answer 
before the HP fax.
Use this function to choose:
• whether the fax should ring audibly when a call is received
• the number of rings before the fax machine answers
1Press Menu.
1:Fax Functions will display.
2Press 5.
5:Rings & Volume will display. 
3Press...

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8Press Enter.
Fax Ring Count will display. 
2    * will display.
9 Use the arrow buttons (W X) to choose the number of rings before the 
fax machine answers.
1 through 9 are the options. 2 is the default.
10 Press Enter.
11 Press Cancel repeatedly to exit the menu. 

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Using Answer Pattern (Distinctive Ring Pattern)
Distinctive Ring is a service you subscribe to through your local telephone 
company (not all telephone companies provide this service). The telephone 
company will assign more than one telephone number to a single telephone 
line. Each telephone number is assigned a specific ring pattern. Ring 
patterns that are recognized by your HP Fax are single, double, triple, and 
double and triple.
If you have questions about how answer...

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• When the fax detects a Double Ring pattern, it immediately answers 
and attempts to receive a fax.
• When the fax detects a Single Ring pattern, the TAM Ring Count will be 
used before the HP Fax answers the call. Voice calls will be recorded 
on the answering machine.
Setting the answer pattern
1Press Menu.
1:Fax Functions will display.
2Press 5.
5:Rings & Volume will display. 
3Press Enter. 
1:TAM/FAX Ring will display. 
4Press 3.
3:Answer Pattern will display.
5Press...

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Silent Detect
Silent Detect refers to receiving faxes from older machines that do not send 
fax tones. This setting causes the HP Fax to wait and attempt to receive a 
fax if it does not hear a voice.
1Press the Menu button.
1:Fax Functions will display.
2Press 7.
3 7:Advanced Setup will display. 
4Press Enter.
1:Scan & Fax will display.
5Press 3.
 3:Silent Detect will display.
6Press Enter.
Off    * will display.
7 Use the arrow buttons (W X) to select the new setting you want and...

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Using an External Answering Machine
To use an external answering machine with your HP Fax follow these steps.
1 Set the Answer Mode to FAX. See “Setting the Answer Mode” on 
page 8.
2 Set the Fax Ring Count to be higher than the external answering 
machine’s ring count. See “Setting the FAX Ring” on page 10.
For example, set the external answering machine to answer in 4 rings 
and set the Fax Ring Count to be 6 rings. 
The HP Fax will listen for fax tones once the answering...

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4Press 8.
8:Caller ID will display.
5Press Enter.
6 Press the right arrow button (X) to scroll to On and press Enter.
7Press Cancel repeatedly to exit the menu.
Printing a list of calls
There are two methods of printing a list of calls by Caller ID.
	
	
Press the Caller ID List button on the front panel to print a list of 
the last 10 calls.
	

2	You can also print the Caller ID List from the Print Report 
menu. See “Printing Reports” on page 43.