Polling lets you set up your machine so other people can receive faxes from you, but they pay for the call. It also lets you call somebody else’s fax machine and receive a fax from it, so you pay for the call. The polling feature needs to be set up on both machines for this to work. Not all fax machines support polling.
Polling receive
Polling receive lets you call another fax machine to receive a fax.
| 1 | Make sure you are in Fax mode  . |
| 2 | Press Menu, 2, 1, 8. |
| 3 | Press  or  to choose Standard. Press OK. |
| 4 | Enter the fax number you are polling. Press Start. |
Secure polling
Secure polling lets you restrict who can get the documents you set up to be polled. Secure polling only works with Brother fax machines. If you want to get a fax from a secured Brother machine you have to enter the secure code.
| 1 | Make sure you are in Fax mode . |
| 2 | Press Menu, 2, 1, 8. |
| 3 | Press or to choose Secure. Press OK. |
| 4 | Enter a four-digit secure code. Press OK. This is the security code of the fax machine you are polling. |
| 5 | Enter the fax number you are polling. |
| 6 | Press Start. |
