HP Officejet 4500 - Case A: Separate fax line (no voice calls received)

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Case A: Separate fax line (no voice calls received)

If you have a separate phone line on which you receive no voice calls, and you have no other
equipment connected on this phone line, set up the device as described in this section.

Back view of the device

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Telephone wall jack

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Use the phone cord supplied in the box with the device to connect to the
1-LINE port
You might need to connect the supplied phone cord to the adapter
provided for your country/region.

To set up the device with a separate fax line
1.
Using the phone cord supplied in the box with the device, connect one end to your telephone

wall jack, then connect the other end to the port labeled 1-LINE on the back of the device.

NOTE: You might need to connect the supplied phone cord to the adapter provided for
your country/region.
If you do not use the supplied cord to connect from the telephone wall jack to the device,
you might not be able to fax successfully. This special phone cord is different from the phone
cords you might already have in your home or office.

2. Turn on the Auto Answer setting.

Appendix C

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Additional fax setup

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3. (Optional) Change the Rings to Answer setting to the lowest setting (two rings).
4. Run a fax test.
When the phone rings, the device answers automatically after the number of rings you set in the
Rings to Answer setting. The device begins emitting fax reception tones to the sending fax machine
and receives the fax.