Fax Answers

I need proof the fax I sent six months ago went through OK. My Canon Faxphone B540/550 only prints recent activity reports. Can I get it from memory?

Can I fax a document on legal-size paper to fax machine that only prints out 8.5 x 11 size paper? If I did what would happen?

I hook up my computer on the same phone line as the fax machine. The PC will only fax out; no receiving. But the funniest thing is it looks like my fax has been forwarded back to my fax machine. The intended recipient of my fax never receives them; instead my fax machine prints them [...]

Q: I want to send a fax from my computer to another country. What service can do this? I don’t want to pay a monthly subscription.

Can I have a fax machine and computer fax modem on the same line so that the machine receives and sends and the computer sends, without them interfering with each other?

I have been trying to find somebody who can explain to me how to send an automatic acknowledgment for every incoming fax. I don’t think our Canon Laser Class 700 fax machines can do this by default. Do you know something I could buy that uses caller ID (like the HP test site) to return [...]

Q: We keep getting a notation on our fax transmission reports that we have “poor line condition” on our fax. What is “poor line condition”? If this is causing transmission problems (as I suspect) how do we fix our “line condition”?

Q: Are wireless fax machines completely wireless?

Q: What makes fax paper special? Where can I buy good, old-fashioned thermal fax paper on a roll? Why is it getting so hard to find and so expensive?

Q: What is in a fax cartridge? Why are there so many different fax cartridges? Where can I find a fax cartridge for my fax machine?