You must
connect your product to a telephone wall jack to send or receive
faxes. If you want to use the same telephone line to receive calls,
you can connect a telephone or answering machine to your product
using an additional phone cable.
Note: If you do
not connect a telephone to your product, make sure to turn on
Auto Answer. Otherwise,
you cannot receive faxes.
- Connect
the phone cable to your telephone wall jack and to the LINE port on your product.
Note: If you have DSL or ISDN connection, you must connect the appropriate DSL filter, or ISDN terminal adapter or router to the wall jack to be able to use the line for faxing or voice calls using your product. Contact your DSL or ISDN provider for the necessary equipment.
- If you are connecting a telephone or answering machine to your product using a second phone cable, remove the cap from the EXT port on your product.
- Connect
the second phone cable to your telephone or answering machine and
to the EXT port on your
product.
Note: If you connect an answering machine and Auto Answer is turned on, make sure the product's Rings to Answer setting is set higher than the number of rings your answering machine is set to answer a call.
Any phone or answering machine must be connected to the EXT port for your product to detect an incoming fax call when the phone is picked up. Epson cannot guarantee compatibility with VoIP, cable phone systems, or fiberoptic digital services such as FIOS.
