I am a one-person shop and absent from the office (no staff) frequently. I have a dedicated phone line which I use for the computer-based MS Fax Console fax program. I must leave the computer on 24/7 to handle the fax program. The problem: I do not want to leave the computer on 24/7 (It has been on for more than two years.) I cannot give up my fax phone number and I do not want to get a stand-alone fax machine. I want the ability to receive into and fax out of my computer, where I can resend, cut and paste, etc.
It seems all of the various fax services cannot use my existing fax telephone number. Is there some memory device I can put between the computer and the phone line that will hold incoming faxes as TIFF or PDF files until I turn on the computer and then transfer them to the MS Fax program?
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This might seem like a basic question, but here it is: How does a fax machine work?
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The people I send faxes to complain that there are vertical stripes on the faxes that I send them. Is my fax machine broken?
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I just hooked up a new fax machine, and I’d like to test it, just to make sure it works. How can I do that?
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I keep getting calls from a fax machine on my voice line. I don’t even have a fax machine, so I don’t know who is trying to send faxes to my number. How can I make it stop?
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I have been searching for some time now for a developer who can help create a new email to fax solution. I was wondering if during your research you may have discovered who created any of the services or where I may find someone with that experience?
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If I have a scanner, can I use it to fax. It says that I can, but do you have directions in making this simple?
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I read with interest your well-researched pages on sending/receiving faxes through the Internet.
I am a novice user of a laptop with Windows XP Home. After reading your pages, it seems to me that in terms of wise budgeting it would be best for me just to fork over ~$20 for a regular external fax-modem, or ~$50 for a small PC Card Type II fax-modem that would fit in my PC card slot in the side of my laptop; and, use the “Fax Console” application standard in Windows XP Home.
I say this, because with the exception of eFax (which is limited in its free services), every Internet faxing service seems to charge for their services or for pages faxed; and, after ~6 months to 1 year of paying for these services/pages-faxed, the amount I would spend would be close or over the amount I would spend in buying a fax-modem.
Can you tell if my novice reasoning above is correct or flawed?
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