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Busy signal when trying to send fax

Every time I try to send a fax on my HP PSC 950, as the fax number is being dialed, it sends out a busy signal, even though the number is not busy. Can anyone help me with any adivise on how to fix this problem? HP wouldn't help me because I bought the machine over a year ago...so you know what that means...NO FREE HELP!!

  • Mumatictac May 29, 2008

    No, I only have dial up, and this happens with every fax that I try to send, even when I have checked to make sure that the fax line is not busy, so as you can see, I'm still stuck, do you have any other suggestions??

  • Anonymous Mar 30, 2014

    Also, the display is on all the time, and doesn't go black.

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Of course..is that phone line, by chance a high speed internet connection?

  • Anonymous May 29, 2008

    can you call your fax machine from a regular number? Seems that this busy signal may be from call waiting interruptions

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I called Canon about this. They had me tweak the transmission start speed (Menu>FAX setting>TX settings>TX start speed). It was too fast. Set it to 4800. Then it was too slow. Clicked it up to 7200 and now it works!! TX Start Speed should not be too fast or too slow.

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