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Beyond the basics

2.50

F-Code communication

F-Code: an introduction

Your fax machine’s database polling (see pages 2.30–2.31) and SecureMail (see pages
2.39–2.42) features work only with other Muratec models. However, the

ITU

(part

of the United Nations agency that maintains international telecommunications
standards; for more information, see the Glossary that begins on page 3.18) has now
created a fax industry standard for using sub-addressing and password-based
communications with not only other Muratec fax machines but also other makers’
machines. One name for this standard is F-Code, and that is what we’ll call it in these
instructions and on your machine’s display.

How sub-addressing works: think of a mailroom

If you are new to the concept of sub-addressing, think about how one receives mail
addressed to a department within one’s company. For example, mail for Accounting
gets to the mailroom for the entire company; the Mail Department then routes the
mail to Accounting.

That’s the idea behind sub-addressing. Once your fax and another F-Code-compatible
faxes begin their communication, they exchange special F-Code signals to indicate
just where the fax really should go. It’s if the sending fax were saying, “Take this one
and carry it on down the hallway to room 148” and the receiving fax were replying,
“148?

, will do.”

Now, with F-Code, you can set up an

ITU

-compatible sub-address and password

which lets you use SecureMail and database polling in communication with any other
fax machine, regardless of maker, so long as it, too, uses the F-Code standard from
the

ITU

To use

ITU

sub-addressing and password features, you have to create F-Code boxes

in your machine.

Setting up or changing F

Code boxes

The first step to using the F-Code box is to create F-Code boxes in your fax machine.
This procedure also lets you modify existing F-Code boxes.
Before you set up an F-Code box:

•

You must decide how your callers will use this box — as a bulletin box or a
security box (see “Which type of box?” in the next column).

•

If the other person has set a password only, inform that person he or she must
store a sub-address before your communications may use this feature. Each fax
machine in the transaction, yours and the other one, must store an

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sub-

address for this to work. (However, use of the password itself is optional if you do
not intend to use secure F-Code communications).

Which type of box?

Before proceeding, make a decision: is this F-Code box to be a bulletin box or a
security box? In essence, the first is for callers’ convenience; the second is for your
convenience.
A bulletin box allows you to store scanned or retrieved documents which callers can
retrieve through polling. For example, your sales branches could call in at any time to
receive a printout of your latest prices. In other words, this is a way to allow database
polling (if necessary, review pages 2.30–2.31) from any fax model that conforms to
the

ITU

standard we call “F-Code.” A bulletin box can hold its contents indefinitely

(as long as the unit has

power). You can set a password for the bulletin box to

restrict access to it.
A security box works like a normal SecureMail mailbox except that it accepts and
stores

ITU

-standard F-Code secure communication, as opposed to the proprietary

SecureMail discussed earlier in these operating instructions (if necessary, review
pages 2.39–2.42). Of course, you must use a password if this is to be a security box;
otherwise, there would be no security!

Creating or modifying an F-Code box

Keep paper and pen with you as you follow this procedure. As you decide
upon and enter each sub-address (and, if applicable, password or passcode), write it
down (noting to which box the information refers). When you complete this
procedure, keep the printed record in a safe place.

If the machine is in Fax mode, proceed to step 3.
If it is in Copy mode, press

COPY

FAX

to change to Fax mode