Wanted: user manual for Ricoh FAX 550 (Futile hope I know) - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 16, 2016, 05:15:01 am
content: I *hate* faxes. Such an obsolete mode of communication. Nonetheless today I needed to send a fax. Of three machines I tried two are not usable. The other (never used before) sort of works, but partially chewed up the hard-to-replace document. Then out of four attempts to connect, it got through three times but each time failed to succeed in sending the document. With no sensible error message, just 'failed".Did I mention I hate faxes? Why would *anyone* still insist on using this stupid system? I said on the phone "Look, I've put the document online, here's the URL. Or I can email it to you." "Oh no, we only accept them faxed." Sheesh.Anyway, one machine I have is an old Ricoh FAX 550. It probably works still, except I can't figure out how to set the 'this machine' phone number in the menu. I don't have a user manual. After extensive online searching, still can't find a copy.A service manual would be good too. I found one, but not free.I know no one will have paper copies lying around, but maybe someone's google-fu is better than mine?The machine looks like pic below.Meanwhile, tomorrow I'll be taking a trip into the city to hand deliver one A4 sized bit of (somewhat torn) paper. Assuming I can still buy a train ticket with cash, as opposed to signing up for a track-you opal card. The future is here.

author: ozwolf
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 16, 2016, 09:08:51 am
content: Hi TerraHertz,As you say, finding the actual manual was problematic. However, my experience is that setting the machine ID is much the same for fax machines. I have some pages, but the file size exceeds the 1000KB limit of attachments on this forum.If you PM me with an email address, I'm happy to send that way.Ozwolf

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 16, 2016, 11:24:07 am
content: Quote from: ozwolf on February 16, 2016, 09:08:51 amThanks. It's no secret, shown in my profile. guykd at optusnet.com.auActually I can get to the place in the menu tree where the number should be setable, but the open field only appears for about half a second then the machine drops back out of the config menus to operating mode. I don't know whether there is something extra I'm supposed to do, or if it's dropping out due to detecting NV backup battery failure or something. Mainly want to see what the manual says about that.It's so corporate-typical that Ricoh don't have this user manual on their site. Only current and recent models. Bastards.

author: ozwolf
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 16, 2016, 12:37:43 pm
content: Sent.

author: PA0PBZ
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 16, 2016, 03:36:54 pm
content: How is your German?http://pdfretriever.com/ref_sien.php?ID=3373800&lg=N&h=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427eBasically what they say about programming (Page 67 in Acrobat)Language: function 5 2 2 2 2 8 4 yesDate&Time: function 5 2 2 2 2 8 2 yes# forward * back -> enterName/Number: function 5 2 2 2 2 5 3 yesNote: they say changing the number can be blocked in certain countries!

author: orion242
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 17, 2016, 01:26:03 pm
content: Just use a fax service and avoid the hassle.We use extreme fax. can upload or email them and they will fax it out.