Case D: Fax with a distinctive ring service on the same
line
If you subscribe to a distinctive ring service (through your telephone company) that
allows you to have multiple phone numbers on one phone line, each with a different ring
pattern, connect your HP all-in-one as described in this section.
Back view of the HP all-in-one
1 Telephone wall jack
2 Phone cord supplied in the box with your HP all-in-one connected to the "1-LINE" port
To set up your HP all-in-one with a distinctive ring service
1
Using the phone cord supplied in the box with your HP all-in-one, connect one end
to your telephone wall jack, then connect the other end to the port labeled "1-LINE"
on the back of your HP all-in-one.
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HP Officejet 7300/7400 series all-in-one
Fax setup
Caution
If you do not use the supplied cord to connect from the telephone
wall jack to your HP all-in-one, you might not be able to fax successfully.
This special phone cord is different from the phone cords you might already
have in your home or office. If the supplied phone cord is too short, see
The
phone cord that came with my HP all-in-one is not long enough
for
information on extending it.
2
Set the HP all-in-one to answer incoming calls automatically. Press the
Auto
Answer
button until the light is on.
3
Change the
Answer Ring Pattern
setting to the pattern that has been assigned to
your fax number by the telephone company, for example, double rings or triple
rings.
For information on changing this setting, see
Change the answer ring pattern
(distinctive ringing)
.
Note
Your HP all-in-one is factory-set to answer all ring patterns. If you do not set
the correct ring pattern assigned to your fax number by the telephone
company, your HP all-in-one might answer both voice calls and fax calls or
it might not answer at all.
4
(Optional) Change the
Rings to Answer
setting to one ring or two rings.
For information on changing this setting, see
Set the number of rings before
answering
.
5
Run a fax test. For information, see
Test your fax setup
.
Your HP all-in-one will automatically answer incoming calls that have the ring pattern
you selected (
Answer Ring Pattern
setting) after the number of rings you selected
(
Rings to Answer
setting). Then it will begin emitting fax reception tones to the sending
fax machine and receive the fax.