9-10 Special Features Chapter 9PollingWhat is Polling?In normal faxing, a fax machine sends a document to another fax machine. Withpolling, a fax machine calls another fax machine and requests that a document be sentto it; in other words, it “polls” that fax machine.Your FAX has the capability of functioning in both roles; it can poll another faxmachine to retrieve a document from it (polling receiving), or it can hold a documentin its polling box so that other fax machines can poll your FAX and retrieve yourdocument (polling sending).Polling ReceivingIn polling receiving, your FAX calls another fax machine and requests it sends thedocument it is holding.You may find polling receiving convenient in the following situations:– When you want to retrieve a document from an establishment, such as bank orinformation service.– When you want to retrieve a document from another fax machine at yourconvenience.– When you want to bear the transmission cost of receiving a document.Polling Another Fax MachineBefore polling another fax machine, be sure to read the following:• The FAX can only poll fax machines that support polling.• The document you want to retrieve must be ready to be polled on the otherparty’s fax machine. If necessary, call the other party to check.• Call the other party and check if you require a subaddress and/or password toretrieve the document from their fax machine. If you do, take note of them andregister them together with the fax number for speed dialling (1 Chapter 6). Youcan only poll with a subaddress/password by using speed dialling. If you do notrequire a subaddress/password, you can retrieve the document without having toenter these numbers.• If the other party is using a Canon fax machine and their unit does not supportsubaddress/password transactions, ask them to set the polling ID on their faxmachine to 255 or 11111111 binary.• You can poll several fax machines in one operation. Each polling operation canretrieve documents from as many as 125 fax numbers.• The subaddress/password must be an ITU-T standard subaddress/password.
