Samsung SF5800 Specifications

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3-8 System Data Set-up

There are system data settings that are set by the user in the user-mode, and system data settings set by the
technician in the tech mode.

3-8-1 System Data Settings in User-

mode

The fax machine has various user-selectable
functions. These functions are usually selected
during the initial setup of the machine, and there
should be little need to change them there after .

Note : Befor e you begin, print out the system data
list to see the curr ent settings. To print the system
data list, pr ess Menu, and ‘ System Data’ on the
one-touch keypad.

1. Press Menu, then press ‘System Data’ on the

one-touch keypad.

The LCD displays user-selectable options.

2. Scroll to the options by pr essing „ or
r epeatedly.

3. When the option you want appears in the
display, enter the number for the desired status.
You can use ˆ or ¤ button and pre ss Enter to

select the desir ed status.

3-8-2 User-Selectable Options

These instructions assume you’ve followed the steps
under ‘System Data Settings in User-mode’ and the
machine is asking if you want to change one of the
options listed here .

•Paper Size-Select the paper size you will use for
the r ecor ding paper.

Pr ess 1 for letter (LTR), 2 for A4, or 3 for legal
(LGL) size paper.

•Message Confirmation Report -A confirmation
r eport shows whether the transmission was
successful or not, how many pages were sent, etc.

Press 1 to print out journal automatically each time
you send a fax.

Press 2 to print only when an err or occurs and the
transmission was not successful.

•Auto Print Journal- A journal r eport shows specific
information concerning transmission and reception
activities, the time and dates up to 50 of the most
r ecent transmission and r eception.

Press 1 to print journal automatically after every 50
transmission and receptions.

Press 2 to print journal manually.

•Remote Receive Start Code-The r emote receive
code allows you to initiate fax receive fr o m a n
extension phone plugged into the EXT.TEL j ack. If
you pick up the extension phone and hear fax
tones, enter the r emote receive code and the fax
will start r eceiving. The passwor d i s p reset to

* 9 * at factory.

Enter the desired code 0 to 9 on the number
keypad.

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• Power Saving Mode (SF-5800P only) -The power

saving menu item lets you reduce power usage
when the printer is idle.

Pr ess 1 to turn the featur e ON. The display asks
you to determine the length of time the printer
waits after a job is printed before it goes to a
r educed power state:
Press 1 for 10 minutes, 2 for 15 minutes, 3 for 30
minutes, 4 for 45 minutes, or 5 for 60 minutes.

If your printer is used constantly, press 2 to turn
the feature OFF. It keeps the printer ready to print
with the minimum warm-up time.

• ECM Mode (Error Correction Mode)-This mode
compensates for poor line quality and ensure s
accurate, err or-free transmission with any other
ECM-equipped facsimile machine. If the line
quality is poor, transmission time may be
incr eased when ECM is enabled.

Pr ess 1 to turn the Err or Corr ection mode on.

Pr ess 2 to turn the Err or Corr ection mode off.

• RX Reduction-When receiving a document as
long as or longer than the paper installed in your
machine, the machine can reduce the data in the
document to fit into your recor ding paper size.

Turn on this featur e if you want to r educe an
incoming page that may otherwise need to be
divided into two pages with only a few
centimeters on the second page. If the fax machine
cannot reduce the data to fit into one page with
the feature enabled, the data is divided and
printed in actual size on two or more sheets if
needed.

Pr ess 1 to turn this featur e on. Note that this
feature does not apply to the copy mode.

Pr ess 2 to turn this featur e off. The overflow data
will be printed out on a second page.

• H.(Horizontal) Reduction-If you turn the RX
reduction feature on, you are allowed to set the
horizontal reduction featur e on or off. When you
set the horizontal r eduction to be on, the machine
will r educe an incoming page containing overflow
data only in vertical as shown below.

If you want to reduce both in vertical and horizontal
at the same rate in order to maintain height to width
relationships, turn the horizontal reduction feature
off. If you turn of f this featur e, the machine r educes
the data as shown below.

Pr ess 1 to turn this featur e on.

Pr ess 2 to turn this featur e off.

• Discard Size-When receiving or copying a
document as long as or longer than the paper
installed in your fax machine, you can set the fax
machine to discard any excess image at the
bottom of the page to fit into the r ecor ding paper
size.

If the received page is outside the mar gin you set,
it will be printed on two sheets of paper at the
actual size.

If the data is within the margin, and the Auto
Reduction feature is turned on, it will be r educed
to fit into the appr opriate size paper (Discar d does
not take place). If the Auto Reduction feature is
turned OFF or fails, the data within the margin
will be discarded.

Enter the desired discard size using the number
keypad, and press Enter.

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• Redial interval- Y our machine can automatically
redial a r emote fax machine if it was busy or does
not answer the first call.

Enter the number of minutes (from 01 to 15) using
the number keypad.

• Redials- Enter the number of attempts (fr om 0 to

9) to redial the number before giving up.

If you enter 0, the machine will not redial.

• Answer Rings-You can select the number of times
your machine rings before answering an incoming
call. If you ar e using your machine as both a
telephone and a fax machine, we suggest you set
the ring count to at least 4 to give you time to
answer.

Enter a number from 1 through 7 on the number
keypad.

• DRPD (Distinctive Ring Pattern Detection)
Mode-’Distinctive Ring’ is a telephone company
service which enables a user to use a single
telephone line to answer several diff er ent
telephone numbers. The particular number
someone uses to call you on is identified by
differ ent ringing patterns, which consist of various
combinations of long and short ringing sounds.
This feature is often used by answering services
who answer telephones for many diff er ent clients
and need to know which number someone is
calling in on to pr operly answer the phone.

Using the Distinctive Ring Pattern Detection
feature, your fax machine can ‘learn’ the ring
pattern you designate to be answered by the FA X
machine. Unless you change it, this ringing
pattern will continue to be recognized and
answered a s a FAX call, and all other ringing
patterns will be forwarded to the extension
telephone or answering machine plugged into the
E X T.LINE jack.

You can easily suspend or change Distinctive Ring
Pattern Detection at any time.

Before using the Distinctive Ring Pattern
Detection option, Distinctive Ring service must be
installed on your telephone line by the telephone
company. To setup Distinctive Ring Pattern

Detection, you will need another telephone line at
your location, or someone available to dial your
FAX number from outside.

Pr ess 1 to turn this featur e on.

Pr ess 2 to turn this featur e off.

Press 3 to setup the Distinctive Ring Pattern
Detection. The LCD displays ‘WAITING RING’.
Call your fax number from another telephone. It is
not necessary to place the call from a fax machine.
When your machine begins to ring, do not answer
the call. The machine requir es several rings to
learn the pattern.

When the machine completes ‘learning’, the LCD
displays ‘END DRPD SETUP’.

W ith the DRPD feature active, ‘DRPD’ appears in
the display and the previously set r eception mode
is ignor ed. If you turn DRPD off, the machine
returns to any previously set r eception mode.

Notes:

• DRPD must be set up again if you re-assign
your fax number, or connect the machine to
another telephone line.

• After DRPD has been set up, call your fax
number again to verify that the machine
answers with a fax tone, then have a call placed
to a dif ferent number assigned to that same line
to be sur e the call is forwar ded to the extension
telephone or answering machine plugged into
the EXT.LINE jack.

• Send from Memory-If you ar e annoyed that you
have to wait until documents in the feeder are
sent out when you try to send or reserve another
fax, turn this featur e on. This featur e enables all
transmission documents are automatically
scanned into memory before transmission.

Pr ess 1 to turn this featur e on.

Pr ess 2 to turn this featur e off.

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• Local ID-This featur e allows the machine to
automatically print the page number, and the date
and time of the reception at the bottom of each
page of a received document.

Pr ess 1 to turn this featur e on.

Pr ess 2 to turn this featur e off.

• Priority Term (Msys 5150/5200, SF-5800P) -When
you want to print a PC document while the
machine prints a received fax on the r ecor ding
paper, you can interrupt the printing and print the
PC document. Press the PRINT PRIORITY button
to enable the feature. The LCD displays ‘PP’ on
the lower line, right corner. The interr upted fax
data will be stor ed in memory. To disable, pr ess
the PRINT PRIORITY button again. ‘PP’ on the
LCD disappears.

You can set your machine to turn the featur e off
automatically if there is no further data printed
within 30 minutes or 8 hours after PC printing.

Press 1 to select 8 hours. The machine turns of f
automatically 8 hours after PC printing is
completed.

Press 2 to select 30 minutes. The machine turns of f
automacally 30 minutes after PC Printing is
completed.

• Dial Mode (SF-5800/5800P Tech mode) -Select the
type of dial system your fax machine is connected
to.

Press 1 if the fax machine is connected to a tone
(Touch Tone) dial line.

Press 2 if the fax machine is connected to a pulse
(Rotary) dial line.

3-8-3 Confiming System Data Settings

Confirm the system data settings by printing out a
system data list.

1. If not in the tech mode, pr ess Menu, #, 1, 9, 3, 4

in sequence to initiate the tech mode.

2. Press Menu.

3. P ress one of the one-touch PRINT keys. The LCD
displays the lists you can print out.

4. Pr ess „ or until you find ‘SYSTEM DATA

LIST’.

5. Press Enter. The machine prints the system data
list.

The system data list printed in the tech mode
contains the system data set in the tech mode as
well as in the user mode. The model number and
software version will be printed at the bottom of
the system data list

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FEATURE PARAMETER FUNCTION

Modem Speed 14400/12000

9600/7200
4800/2400 bps

The maximum Tx speed can be limited to 14400, 12000, 9600, 7200, 4800 or
2400 bits per second. When the Tx speed is set to 14400, 12000 the Rx speed
can be either V.33 or V.17 speed. When the Tx speed is set to 9600 or 7200,
the Rx speed can be either V.29 or V.27ter speed. When the Tx speed is set
to 4800 or 2400, the Rx speed can be any V.27ter speed.

Error Rate 5%, 10% If the err or rate exceeds the chosen rate, fall back occurs which will lower

the baud rate automatically down to as low as 2400 baud until the erro r
rate is less than the chosen rate.

3-8-4 System Data Settings in Tech-

mode

V arious technical featur es of fax machine are
provided with optional parameters. Set the feature s
to the user ’s need according to the following
p rocedure.

1. If not in the tech mode, pr ess Menu, #, 1, 9, 3, 4

in sequence to initiate the tech mode.

2. Press Menu, and press ‘System Data’ on the

one-touch keypad.

The LCD displays ‘TECH MODE SYSTEM
D AT A?’.

3. To set the system data available in tech mode,

pr ess Enter.

If you want to set the system data available in the
user mode, pre ss Stop. The LCD displays ‘USER
MODE SYSTEM DATA?’. Pr ess Enter to set the

system data available in the user mode.

4. The LCD displays the options you can choose. In
tech mode, the LCD displays the technician­selectable options as well as all the user­selectable options.

5. Scroll to the options by pr essing „ or
r epeatedly.

6. When the option you want appears in the
display, enter the number for the desired status.
You can use ‹ or ¤ button and pre ss Enter to
select the desir ed status.

Y ou can exit fr om setup mode at any time by
pr essing Stop. When you pre ss Stop, the
machine stores the options you’ve already
changed and returns to Standby mode.

Tx Level -4 ~ -15 dBm You can set the level of transmission signal. Typically, Tx level should be

under -12 dBm. The level within the range of -4 dBm to -15 dBm is
acceptable. Enter the desired value using the dial keypad.

Receive
Sensitivity

High/Normal High sensitivity is between -5 and -49 dBm. Normal sensitivity is -43 dBm.

Super Fine Scan
to Memory

200/300 dpi This feature allows the machine to scan documents in super fine resolution

(200 x 400 dpi, 300 x 300 dpi). The other machine can receive super fine
image. If the r emote machine is not capable of receiving super fine data, your
machine fails to send documents and displays ‘INCOMPABLE ERROR’.

Silence Time 12sec/Unlimit

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3-9 LCD Display

3-9-1 During Communication

In user mode, the LCD shows the remote machine’s
TTI number, TX or RX communication type,
(modem speed), and page number.

In service mode, the display shows the
communication type, abbreviations for the CCITT
Group 3 T.30 pr otocol as they occur, the pr otocol
type (G3), baud rate in kbps, and line time.

3-9-2 If a Communication Problem

Occurs:

In user mode, the display shows one of the
following:
PAPER JAM, COMM.ERROR, LINE ERROR.

In service mode, the display shows all error
messages available in user mode, as plus additional
error messages available only in Service Mode.

Er ror messages shown in service mode only are a s
follows:

PRE-MESSAGE ERROR : problem occurred during

phase B of session.

POST-MESSAGE ERROR : problem occurred during

phase D of session.

MESSAGE ERROR : problem occurred during phase

C of session.

LINE ERROR : machine cannot connect or has lost

connection with the remote machine.

Additional messages, not shown above, will appear
in the TX/RX journal printed in service mode.

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