- Hewlett-Packard Fax Machine User Guide

32 Additional features
Answer/receive mode
4. Call the HP Fax.
DRPD OK will display when the pattern has been learned and the HP Fax will
return to Ready mode.
Step 2—Set up distinctive ring (DRPD) answer mode
Once you have activated distinctive ring, it becomes one of the answering
modes you can select by pressing the Mode/Contrast button.
S Press Mode/Contrast repeatedly until
DRPD Mode appears in the display.
• In Ready mode,
DRPD appears in the right hand corner of the display.
• Now, the HP Fax will manage calls and faxes as if it were set to AUTO mode
(AUTO mode on page 33)
TIP: Distinctive ring must be set up again if you reassign your fax number or
connect the machine to another telephone line. Once set up again (that is, the
fax machine has learned the ring pattern and the answering mode is correctly
set), you should test the fax machine by calling the fax number and another
number on the same line. The machine should respond appropriately to a call
placed to the fax number with fax tones, and to a normal telephone call with the
expected ring pattern.
Answer/receive mode
How the product receives faxes depends on the answer/receive mode you
chose when you set up the product. You can send faxes in any answer/receive
mode. The answer/receive mode setting determines how the device answers the
incoming call.
How are you going to use your HP Fax? Read about...
• Fax machine with few or no voice calls. FAX mode
• Telephone and fax machine without an
external answering machine connected.
AUTO mode
• As a fax machine with an external
answering machine.
TAM mode
• Using Distinctive Ring (DRPD) service to
set up a separate telephone number for
your fax on the same physical line as
your other numbers.
See Distinctive ring (DRPD)
on page 31.
• Telephone with few or no fax calls. TEL mode