Abstract: A method for the automatic generation of a quick dial reference sheet includes associating each of a plurality of quick dial buttons of an apparatus with a respective entry of a plurality of entries in a quick dial database; defining a layout of the quick dial reference sheet to have a plurality of printable areas respectively associated with the plurality of quick dial buttons; populating each area of the plurality of printable areas in the layout of the quick dial reference sheet with a corresponding identification retrieved from a corresponding one of the plurality of entries of the quick dial database; and printing a copy of the populated layout on a sheet of media. In a further embodiment the quick dial reference sheet can be incised or perforated to a desired size.

Abstract: A method for compiling, in a memory of a facsimile machine, at least one listing of telephone numbers or partial telephone numbers corresponding to authorized senders, or unauthorized senders, or both authorized and unauthorized senders.

Abstract: An indicating system has a current pick-up inductively coupled to one of the cables of a welding system. A predetermined fraction of the voltage from the pick-up is applied to a programmed circuit arrangement which includes a timer and which controls a warning device to indicate when the predetermined fraction of the pick-up voltage has been less than a predetermined value for a predetermined time after current has begun to flow in the cable.