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Sending fax from PC
I have found on my windows 7 PC
Windows fax and scan. Do I need a modem for this as these days we all use modem wireless routers? Desmond. |
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On Mar 6, 10:27 am, Desmond wrote:
I have found on my windows 7 PC Windows fax and scan. Do I need a modem for this as these days we all use modem wireless routers? Desmond. I like that - 'we all,' the people &etc. Then we all call up a bank or some regulatory agency, conveniently using the LCD, a plain 'ol copper line telephone subscription at a present minimum of $40 monthly -- someone besides we all by dint of their having reason for requiring we all to jump through some paperwork hoops -- we all might think thereupon to complain, who then responds to any complaints by -- 'but, but ... you all can use our convenient fax technology ported over from mid-century, last century.' My favorite: We not all lost your all's rebate paperwork sent in the mail. But, but, we not all are magnanimously prepared to receive your all resubmissions on a fax machine, whereupon you all can legally have your all monies we not all will keep until that option is met at some further notice. Oh, yea, the question: Do you all need a fax modem? Short answer: Not if the Gods have any say and forbid them. |
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On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Desmond wrote:
I have found on my windows 7 PC Windows fax and scan. Do I need a modem for this as these days we all use modem wireless routers? Not likely. FAX as people knew it was a method of sending pages over the phone line. It became cheap enough for home and small office usejust before the internet started to become readily available. As the internet became very common, the use of fax machines dropped off dramatically. Most of what could be done could be done through electronic means, just email that pdf. The only holdouts are some silly institutions that "don't trust" electronic files, so they still insist on getting faxes, and they are the ones who still have fax machines. There's no way to send faxes "over the internet", you are then simply sending a file electronically, and other methods (like an attachment to email) is the way to go. If you don't have a modem, then forget it. The only alternative, and I doubt it exists much, is an email to fax server. In the old days, various peopole would set up email to fax servers, my first ISP had one, so you could send email to it and it would dial the local number and send the email out as a fax. They were quite common at one time, kind of useful so long as there was such a server local to where you needed to send the fax. The odd thing is, that breaks things for all the reasons people still fuss over faxes, an intermediate step where the document could be "tampered" with, yet it was really the same process as if you'd generated the document electronically and sent it via your modem to a fax machine, the only difference being the modem was remote at the email to fax server. I don't think that sort of thing is common nowadays. It was one of those cool things that was done before the internet got popular, and a lot of free stuff back then disappeared as the population moved to the internet and all wanted to use such free things. Or maybe not, maybe they just faded as the use of fax machines dwindled, most people using the internet directly to send files. You could always add a modem if you really want to send a fax. I found two 33.6K external modems lying on the sidewalk a week ago, one stil had its ac adapter plugged in (I think the other one's ac adapter was in that ball of cable and ac adapters, I couldn't be bothered to unknot it all). Since FAX is a separate standard, any modem beyond some speed, I think 14.4K maybe not even that fast, will work for sending and receiving faxes. It's not the speed, it's that at some point fax capability was added, and the fax standard never changed, so you don't need the latest modem. Of course, now many computers no longer have serial ports, so external modems aren't so useful. Michael |
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Desmond wrote:
I have found on my windows 7 PC Windows fax and scan. Do I need a modem for this as these days we all use modem wireless routers? Desmond. The first two ways, use Windows FAX and Scan. The third just uses Email on your end, but costs money. The third way might be useful for a business, with higher volume FAX and the need to eliminate junk faxes easily perhaps. Standard way ------------ Desmond | Computer Recipient | 9.6K .. 14.4K | Fax_Modem ----- Voice_Line ----- Fax_Machine Alternate way ------------- Desmond | ISP Data/Voice Computer Gateway | | | Fax_Modem | | Recipient | (VOIP flaky at 14.4K rate) | | | VOIP Box --- Broadband modem/router ---+ +----- Voice_Line ----- Fax_Machine The cheater's way ----------------- Desmond | EmailToFAX Computer Gateway $$$ | | | Email | | Recipient | | | | Broadband modem/router ----------------+ +----- Voice_Line ----- Fax_Machine The fastest FAX I've ever sent, was at 14400 baud (14.4K). I don't know if any standard allows faster than that. The VOIP box, while it's intended to carry POTS (voice band) communications, doesn't seem to support 14400 very well. Some people end up setting the FAX software to transmit at 9600, to get sufficient VOIP communications quality, for the transfer to complete. So for this purpose, VOIP from your ISP, is not an exact replacement. The VOIP might still be acceptable for regular speech transmission (because the human ear is tolerant of some types of channel degradations). Paul |
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Desmond wrote:
I have found on my windows 7 PC Windows fax and scan. Do I need a modem for this as these days we all use modem wireless routers? Conventional faxes need conventional data/fax modems. Senders and recipients need mutually compatible methods of transmission and reception. How often (and how many pages) do you need to fax something to some entity that needs to receive a conventional fax? That volume or frequency will help to determine what you should do if you want to send conventional faxes to a recipient which is unable to receive by other means such as email. -- Mike Easter |
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"Desmond" wrote: I have found on my windows 7 PC Windows fax and scan. Do I need a modem for this as these days we all use modem wireless routers? Desmond. Yes, you need a FAX/voice modem. If you want to send FAXes from your computer (as opposed to sending from an external FAX machine), you can pick up an internal PCI 56K FAX modem from Fry's for about $14. It can use the Windows FAX and Scan utility, or it can use the supplied software that comes on CD. If you have a network-attached FAX/printer, you can also send the document from your computer to the FAX/printer via ethernet and thence FAX it out on your telephone landline. In all computer-involved FAXing, the document file is sent to the modem or the FAX/printer as if it were a print job, but the selection of "printer" in the "print" drop-down menu is one that is actually selection of a FAXer, and that entry in the "print" menu is put there by the installation routine of the FAXing device. *TimDaniels* |
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... I have found on my windows 7 PC Windows fax and scan. Do I need a modem for this as these days we all use modem wireless routers? In order to send a fax you need a functioning telephone connection and computer software to digitize your document in a way that connection can use. Before Windows XP this required (1) a telephone line (2) a fax modem in your PC (3) fax sofware application. Windows XP built #3 into the OS, and so does Win7. You still need a means of connecting your own PC with the fax recipient's telephone number. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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