HP Officejet Pro 8610 - Select the correct fax setup for your home or office

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Select the correct fax setup for your home or office

To fax successfully, you need to know what types of equipment and services (if any) share the same

phone line with the printer. This is important because you might need to connect some of your

existing office equipment directly to the printer, and you might also need to change some fax settings

before you can fax successfully.

1.

Determine if your telephone system is serial or parallel.

For more information, see Set up faxing (parallel phone systems) on page 182.

a.

Serial-type telephone system—See Serial-type fax setup on page 203.

b.

Parallel-type telephone system—Go to step 2.

2.

Select the combination of equipment and services sharing your fax line.

DSL: A Digital subscriber line (DSL) service through your telephone company. (DSL might

be called ADSL in your country/region.)

PBX: A private branch exchange (PBX) phone system or an integrated services digital

network (ISDN) system.

Distinctive ring service: A distinctive ring service through your telephone company provides

multiple telephone numbers with different ring patterns.

Voice calls: Voice calls are received at the same phone number you use for fax calls on the

printer.

Computer dial-up modem: A computer dial-up modem is on the same phone line as the

printer. If you answer Yes to any of the following questions, you are using a computer dial-

up modem:

Do you send and receive faxes directly to and from your computer software

applications through a dial-up connection?

Do you send and receive email messages on your computer through a dial-up

connection?

Do you access the Internet from your computer through a dial-up connection?

Answering machine: An answering machine that answers voice calls at the same phone

number you use for fax calls on the printer.

Voice mail service: A voice mail subscription through your telephone company at the same

number you use for fax calls on the printer.

3.

From the following table, select the combination of equipment and services applicable to your

home or office setting. Then look up the recommended fax setup. Step-by-step instructions are

included for each case in the sections that follow.

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Set up faxing (parallel phone systems) 183

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NOTE: If your home or office setup is not described in this section, set up the printer as you would

a regular analog phone. Make sure you use the phone cord supplied in the box to connect one end to

your telephone wall jack and the other end to the port labeled 1-LINE on the back of the printer. If you

use another phone cord, you might experience problems sending and receiving faxes.

You might need to connect the supplied phone cord to the adapter provided for your country/region.

Other equipment or services sharing your fax line

Recommended fax setup

DSL

PBX

Distinctive

ring service

Voice

calls

Computer dial-

up modem

Answering

machine

Voice mail

service

Case A: Separate fax line

(no voice calls received)

on page 184

Case B: Set up the printer

with DSL on page 185

Case C: Set up the printer

with a PBX phone system or

an ISDN line on page 186

Case D: Fax with

a distinctive ring service on

the same line on page 187

Case E: Shared voice/fax

line on page 188

Case F: Shared voice/fax

line with voice mail

on page 189

Case G: Fax line shared

with computer modem (no

voice calls received)

on page 190

Case H: Shared voice/fax

line with computer modem

on page 193

Case I: Shared voice/fax

line with answering machine

on page 196

Case J: Shared voice/fax

line with computer modem

and answering machine

on page 197

Case K: Shared voice/fax

line with computer dial-up

modem and voice mail

on page 201