Archive for the 'Fax Machines' Category

Sending faxes at night

Monday, July 7th, 2008

All my boss can talk about is the “economic downturn” and how it’s affecting her small business. She’s in full penny-pincher mode and wants me to figure out how to send faxes after-hours when long-distance phone rates are down. How do I do this?

Is repairing a fax machine worth it?

Friday, July 4th, 2008

My fax machine quit working. I don’t know what’s wrong with it, whether it can be repaired or how much it would cost to fix it. I called a repair shop, but they want $100 just to have a technician look at it. Is it worth it, or should I just buy a new machine?

Fax with Calling Card

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

I have a pre-paid calling card and was trying to use it to send a fax long-distance, but it won’t go through. What’s going on?

Avoid Fax Tone

Monday, June 30th, 2008

My phone and fax machine share one line. I’m so sick of rushing to pick up a ringing phone only to hear that annoying tone that means it’s really a fax coming in. What can I do?

Faxing with Call Waiting

Friday, June 27th, 2008

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


What should I do with my old fax machine?

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

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?

Why didn’t all of my fax go through?

Friday, June 20th, 2008

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

Fax activity reports: to toss or not to toss?

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

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?

Receiving faxes on legal size paper

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

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?

Faxing in Color

Monday, June 16th, 2008

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 […]