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Setting Up - Connecting Phone Line

Make a line connection and various settings for using the fax functions.

  1. Make sure the printer is turned on.

  2. Press the HOME (HOME) button on the printer, and then tap FAX.

    HOME screen: Select FAX

    Easy setup starts.

  3. Tap Start Easy setup.

    Easy setup screen: Make settings for sending/receiving FAX

  4. Tap Next.

    Easy setup screen: Easy setup guides you through the following procedures.

  5. Connect the supplied phone cord to the printer's jack (labeled LINE on the back).

    Easy setup screen: Connect one end of the supplied phone cord to the LINE jack on the rear side of the device.
    figure: Phone cord connection (printer)

    • For users in the UK:

      If the connector of the external device cannot be connected to the jack on the printer, you will need to purchase a B.T. adapter to connect as follows:

      Attach the B.T. adapter to the phone cord connecting the external device, and then connect the B.T. adapter to the external device jack.

  6. Tap Next.

    Easy setup screen: Select Next

  7. Connect the other end of the phone cord to a xDSL modem or a splitter.

    Easy setup screen: Connect the other end of the phone cord to your TEL line socket, modem or splitter.

    <Connection example>

    xDSL modem with built-in splitter

    figure: Phone cord connection example (xDSL line : modem with built-in splitter)

    Splitter + xDSL modem

    figure: Phone cord connection example (xDSL line : external splitter)

  8. Tap Next.

    Easy setup screen: Select Next

  9. Remove the cap from the printer's jack (labeled EXT. on the back), and then connect the printer and the telephone with a phone cord.

    Easy setup screen: Remove the cap from EXT. port on the rear side of the device, and then connect a telephone.
    figure: Telephone connection

    • If you have only one phone line contract, parallel connection of a telephone and fax machine to different wall jacks (branch connection) is not possible.

      figure: Branch connection

  10. Tap Next.

    Easy setup screen: Select Next

  11. Tap Start to perform a connection test for checking if the telephone line is connected correctly.

    Easy setup screen: Start the telephone line connection test

    If none of the above measures solve the problem, the printer may be defective, or the problem may be caused by some other reason.

    As we need to check the detailed status, please contact your nearest Canon service center.

  12. Tap Yes (FAX and voice).

    Easy setup screen: Select Yes (FAX and voice)

  13. Check the specified settings, and then tap OK.

    Easy setup screen: Check FAX settings

  14. Check if you hear beeps/boops (signal tones) when you dial from your telephone.

    If you do not hear signal tones, set pulse dialing.

The phone line connection is completed.

Next, set the sender information and the date and time. Go to the next page.