Sent a fax and report came back with result message"error 390" What does that mean? regards Lisa

Noise in the phone line, or low signal strength during fax transmission can result in fax failures. Noise or poor signal strength can cause a partial or complete loss of fax information during transmission. When Error Correction Mode (ECM) is on, the receiving fax machine checks the fax information for errors during reception. If the receiving fax machine detects an error, the receiving fax requests that the sending fax resend the information. Resending all or part of the information can make transmission times longer, but helps improve the quality of the received fax.
If the phone line quality or signal strength is extremely poor, sending a fax can fail. Turning off ECM can improve the ability of the product to send a fax successfully when the phone line quality is poor. However, the image quality of the received fax might be poor.
If ECM must be off to send faxes successfully, have the telephone service provider check the phone line quality. For an HP Fax, turning off ECM from the control panel does not necessarily mean that fax transmission will not use ECM. Fax products use ECM as follows.

• All faxes sent in color use ECM.
• All faxes sent at the highest transmission speed use ECM.
• The ECM setting affects only sent faxes, not received faxes.

Enabling or disabling Error correction mode (ECM)

1. On the product control panel, press the Menu button ( ).
2. Use the arrow buttons ( ) to select Basic Fax , and then press the OK button ( ).
3. Use the arrow buttons ( ) to select ECM Mode , and then press the OK button ( ).
4. Use the arrow buttons ( ) to select On or Off , and then press the OK button ( ) to confirm the setting.
5. Press the Back button ( ) twice to return to the main screen.

Error Code: 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395 Definition

There is too much noise on the line for a valid connection between two fax machines to complete. The noise problem might go away over time.

Solution

Retry the fax reception at a different time when telephone line conditions have improved. Call the telephone provider if line conditions fail to improve.

from the user manual:


The default fax confirmation setting is Every Error. This means that your
HP Officejet prints a report only if there is a problem with sending or receiving a fax. A confirmation message indicating whether an item was successfully sent appears briefly on the front panel display after each transaction. To have a confirmation printed for every fax, follow these instructions.


1 Press Setup.
2 Press 1, then press 1.
This selects Print Report and then selects Automatic Reports Setup.


3 Press direction right button until Every Fax appears in the second line of the display, and then press OK.


The HP Officejet will print a confirmation report every time you send a fax informing you whether the fax was sent successfully or not.

Enjoy

Christopher

Normally if i fax is sent, it will just give a message as Fax sent or it wont give any error.
But if you want to get a confirmation whether the fax is sent or not, you can print a fax confirmation page on ever fax sent or received or both.

Press the SETUP button ( menu )
Scroll till you find Print Report - Press OK
Scroll till you find Automatic Reports Setup - Press OK
Choose Send Only - Press ok

Regards,
Ron

Sending Confirmation
This report shows the fax number, the number of pages, elapsed time of
the operation, the communication mode, and the communication results.
You can set up your machine to print the message confirmation report in
one of the following ways (see page 5.3):
• Automatically after each transmission (ON)
• Automatically only if an error occurs during transmission (ERR)
• No report printed at all (OFF). You can print this report manually at
any time you want.
SENDING CONFIRM - A confirmation report shows whether the
transmission was successful or not, how many pages were sent, etc.
Select ON to print a confirmation report automatically each time you
send a fax.
Select OFF to turn this feature off.
Select ERROR to print only when an error occurs and the transmission
was not successful.

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Hope it helps!

To print a report:

1. Press the [Menu] button on the Control Panel, until Reports is displayed on the top line of the Display Screen. The Phone Book menu item will be displayed on the bottom line.
   
   
   
   
2. Press the right or left arrow button to scroll until the report or list you want to print is displayed on the bottom line.
   • Phone Book: Phonebook list
   • Sent Report: Sent fax report
   • RCV Report: Received fax report
   • System Data: System data list
   • Scheduled Jobs: Scheduled job information
   • MSG Confirm: Message confirmation
   • Junk Fax List: Junk fax number list
3. Press [Enter] to print the selected information.

Your machine can print reports containing useful information. The following reports are available:

• Phonebook List: This list shows all of the numbers currently stored in the machine's memory as Speed Dial and Group Dial numbers. You can print this phonebook list using the [Phonebook] button.
• Sent Fax Repor: This report shows information of the faxes you recently sent.
• Received Fax Report: This report shows information of the faxes you recently received.
• System Data List: This list shows the status of the user-selectable options. You may print this list to confirm your changes after changing any settings.
• Scheduled Job Information: This list shows the document currently stored for Delayed faxes or Toll Save faxes. The list shows the starting time and type of operation.
• Message Confirmation: This report shows the fax number, the number of pages, the elapsed time of the job, the communication mode, and the communication results. You can set up your machine to automatically print the message confirmation report after each fax job.
• Junk Fax Number List: This list shows up to 10 fax numbers specified as the junk fax numbers by using the Junk Fax Setup menu. When the Junk Fax Barrier feature is turned on, incoming faxes from those numbers will be blocked. This feature recognizes the last 6 digits of the fax number set as a remote fax machine’s ID.
• Multi-Communication Report: This report is printed automatically after sending documents from more than one location.
• Power Failure Report: This report is printed out automatically when power is restored after a power failure, if any data loss occurs due to the power failure.

NOTE: The lists you have set to automatically print out will not print out when there is no paper loaded or a paper jam has occurred.

it will be under reports, you can set all faxes to do a report after a fax has been sent, ill keep the terminology easy as
Brother, canon, konica blah blah all uses different terminology for it, but there is a setting in reports for user that they can turn on, it like error reporting if a fax deosnt go it will print out a error report so same thing to do with copy report.
regards
Fax Tech

Hi,

I understand that you are receiving the error "fax not sent" and the transaction report Error 389*. while sending fax.

The issue that you are experiencing is due to communication, however please follow the instructions from the below article to get the issue resolved.

Here is the web document:

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http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=buu02549

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Just copy and paste the entire link into the Internet browser's address bar and press enter.

This should resolve the issue that you are experiencing with.

Regards,
Lawrence

When the last page of your document has been sent successfully, the machine beeps and returns to Standby mode. When something goes wrong while sending your fax, an error message appears on the display. If you receive an error message, press Stop/Clear to clear the message and try to send the document again. You can set your machine to print a confirmation report automatically each time sending a fax is completed. If you get the error message write it down it should always supply an error message if the fax did not go through.