Comdial Americom LCD Speakerphone System Instructions Manual

							usmg rne UrneiTelephone Features 
Operating Your Telephone As A Departmental 
Station 
If your telephone is within a departmental group of telephones, 
you can place your station in either an off-duty or a wrap-up mode. 
The off-duty mode is when you leave your telephone for lunch 
or for an extended time period and want another department 
telephone to receive your calls. 
The wrap-up mode is when you need time after a call to complete 
related paperwork and want another department telephone to 
receive your calls. To use the wrap-up mode, you must program 
a Do Not Disturb feature button (refer to the programming section 
of this user’s guide for details). 
To place your telephone in an off-duty mode, 
l press OPTIONS, 
l press NEXT, 
l pressDND, 
l press ON, 
l press SPKR to end. Calls will ring at another departmen- 
tal telephone. 
To return to on-duty mode, repeat the above procedure but 
press OFF instead of ON. 
NOTE: When you are in the Do Not Disturb mo& and a call comes in 
Jim another station, your kTtX light willjlarh and your LCD 
will display the station attempting the call. You may choose to 
pick up the call; when you hang up, your telephone returns to 
the Do Not Disturb mode until you turn it off. 
To place station in wrap-up mode, 
l press HOLD, 
l press DND feature button (preprogrammed). Calls will 
ring at another departmental telephone. 
To return to on-duty mode, repeat the above procedure. 
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Display 1 
DATE TIME 
OPTONS 
Display 2 
ffiM VA6 NEXl 
Display 3 
DND CFWD f’REV 
Display 4 _ _ 
Do Not Disturb 
ON 
OFF 
PREV 
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Sending A Paging Announcement 
There are several ways to make a public announcement to all or 
a portion of your location, Your system might be arranged with 
an external paging unit that you access by pressing a line button 
or by dialing a special code. This unit sounds the announcement 
over an external speaker unit. 
Your system may provide an all-call or a zone page feature that 
you access by dialing special codes. This arrangement sounds the 
announcement through the telephone speakers. All-call sounds 
the announcement through all telephones while zone paging 
sounds it only thmugh those telephones located in a specific area. 
Check with your system administrator to determine the type of 
paging that you should use and the method that you should use to 
access it. 
NOTE: You can program a special a&xlllzone paging button if you 
need it for quick access to the feature. See the progrmndng sec- 
tion of this wer’s guide for details. 
If your system provides an external paging unit, 
l lift handset, 
l press paging button, 
a 
l dial ITCM 89 for special paging port, 
0 make announcement, 
l hang up to end. 
If your system provides all-call or zone paging, 
l lift handset, 
l press ITCM, 
l dial 87 for all-call, 
q 
l dial 84,85, or 86 for zone 1,2 or 3, 
0 make announcement, 
0 stay on line if awaiting a reply (known as “meet-me” 
page), 
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l hang up to end. 
NOTE: If you have programmed paging buttons, use them instead of the 
dialing codes shown above. 
To make a reply to a “meet-me” page, 
l lift handset of nearest telephone, 
l press ITCM, 
l dial88, 
0 meet paging party on line. 
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Setting A Do Not Disturb Condition 
At Your Telc, 
This feature keeps calls from ringing at your telephone and makes 
it appear to be busy to intercom calls. If your telephone has this 
feature, you can enable it as needed. 
Generally, this feature cannot be overridden by the caller. The 
caller hears two q : ick tone bursts every three seconds when he or 
she calls a telephone with this feature enabled. Some telephones, 
however, do have the ability to override a do not disturb condition 
set at another telephone. 
NOTE: You can program a special do not disturb button if you need it 
for quick access to the feature. See the programming section 
of 
this user’s guide for details. 
To enable do not disturb, proceed as follows: 
. press OPTIONS, 
l press NEXT, 
. press DND, 
. press ON, 
l press SPKR to end. 
To disable the do not disturb condition, repeat the above proce- 
dure, but press OFF instead of ON. 
To override a do not disturb condition at another telephone, 
refer to the discussion titled 
Overriding Calls for details. 
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Display 1 
m DATE TIME fl 
Display 
2 
SGM WE NEXT 
DND CFViU 
NEXT 
Display 4 
D=J= 
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Setting Your Personal Ringing Tones 
You can choose one of six different ring tones for your telephone 
when it rings. Often, when several telephones am located close 
together, each user chooses a different personal ring tone. 
To select one of the ring tones, proceed as follows: 
l press OPTIONS, 
l press NEXT two times, 
l press RING, 
l press UP or DOWN tc choose ring tone in display (a 
new tone will sound at each up or down press), 
l press SPKR to end. The next time your telephone rings, 
you will hear the new ring tone. 
Display 1 
DATE TIME 
OPTIONS 
Display 2 
NEXT 
Display 4 
DISP RING NEXT 
Display 5 
Ring Type 1 
DOWN UP 
PAEV 
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Switching The Dialing 
Mode Between Pulse And Tone 
If your local telephone service is pulse (rotary dialing), your 
telephone is arranged to dial in this manner (when programmed 
to do so by the installer). If you need to send tones during a dialing 
sequence (e.g.; to send bank-by-phone tones, etc), you can con- 
vert to tone while dialing. The system will switch back to pulse 
dialing when you end your call. You can store a # as part of an 
automatic dialing number to effect pulse-to-tone switching where 
needed. 
To convert to tone dialing at any time during dialing or while 
on an active call, 
l press #. 
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Using Background Music 
If background music is supplied by the telephone system, you can 
turn it on at your telephone speaker. Background music automat- 
ically turns off during calls and voice announcements. 
To turn the music on, 
press OPTIONS, 
press BGM, 
press ON, 
press SPKR to end (the SPKR light turns on when back- 
ground music is on), 
adjust the loudness of the music with the speaker volume 
control. 
To turn the music off, 
. press OPTIONS, 
l pressBGM, 
. press OFF, 
l press SPKR to end (the SPKR light turns off when back- 
ground music is off). 
Display 1 
Display 2 
piizrJ=fl 
Display 3 
D=Jg 
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							Message Waiting Light and Messaging 
If your telephone is designated as a v by the 
system or has message wait originate ability, you can turn on the 
message waiting light (above HOLD) of any other telephone. 
This lets that telephone user know that you have a message for 
him. 
You can also turn on the message waiting light at another sta- 
tion when that station is busy, using the LCD feature buttons. 
To turn on the message waiting light at another telephone when 
that station is busy, 
l hear the busy tone and remain on the line, 
. press NEXT, 
. pressMSG, 
l hang up to send message. The message-waiting light at 
the called station will flash. 
To turn on the message waiting light at an idle telephone, 
l press ITCM, 
l dial +k 3, 
l dial extension number of station to be alerted. The mes- 
sage waiting light of called station will flash. 
To turn off the message waiting light at a busy or idle station, 
l press ITCM, 
l dial#3, 
l dial extension number of station that was alerted. The 
message waiting light of called station will turn off. 
To turn off the message waiting light during message-delivering 
conversation, 
l press ITCM. 
To receive a message at an alerted station, 
l observe flashing message waiting light, 
l press ITCM, then HOLD. Connection to station that left 
message is automatic. 
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