Faxing with Call Waiting

I’m planning on adding “call waiting” to my home phone service. Will this cause any problems with my fax machine?

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Why was I charged twice for faxing one page?

Why did my Internet fax service charge me for two pages when I only sent one?

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What should I do with my old fax machine?

My fax machine has served me well for nearly 10 years. However, it’s time to put “Old Bessie” to rest and invest in a more-modern machine, or perhaps transition to Internet-based faxing. But how can I responsibly dispose of my old machine?

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Why didn’t all of my fax go through?

The recipient got some, but not all, of my fax. What happened?

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Fax activity reports: to toss or not to toss?

I’m the office manager of a mid-sized business. I tend to be overly cautious (my coworkers call it “covering my rear”), which is probably why I save all of those printouts the fax machine spits out showing what faxes were sent when. Am I a freak, and should I should just toss them?

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Can I fax using Windows Vista?

I’d been using my PC to fax with Microsoft operating systems for years when I decided to upgrade to Vista. Now, I can’t fax at all. What am I doing wrong?

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Receiving faxes on legal size paper

I can’t get my fax machine to print correctly on legal-size paper. I load the tray with legal paper, but when the fax I’m expecting comes through, it just shrinks the text down so it would have fit on standard 8 1/2-by-11-inch paper and prints it that way. What am I doing wrong?

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Faxing in Color

I’m an illustrator by trade, and while many of my clients are happy to have me e-mail them drafts of my works-in-progress, I’ve also been asked if I could “just fax it.” I’m OK with some of the image quality being lost in transmission, but I really wish I could fax in color. Is this possible?

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Fax Polling, or Fax On Demand

Can I “ask” another fax machine to send me something?

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The Mystery of the Dark Fax

I left a really old fax in my hot car and it turned black. What happened?

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