Re: setting up the fax
- From: VanguardLH <V@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:10:26 -0500
Carrie wrote:
I've tried this before, but never seriously looked into it. I don't use
faxing alot, and when I send them I use my Lexmark all in one
(printer/scanner) which brings up it's own Wizard.
Occasionally someone (my kids) will ask me if I can GET a fax.
Which is when I try and set up the one that came with Win XP
It says Rockwell fax/data V90
Wants to install, then a box comes up saying to put in the Win XP instal
CD. Which I don't have (didn't get from Dell)
I've tried to send it to what I think are the installaion files/drivers
the i386 file. It says it can't find what it needs there, it's invalid path.
What comes up automatically, from previous tries says drivercache\i386
Doesn't seem to work. It ends up saying it didnt find what it needs and to
put in the WinXP instal CD. Though a box to send/receive faxes does come up
(I've never tried it this way to see if it works anyway)
My daughter just called and asked if I could get a fax for her and I
brought up the one with WIN XP and tried the find the driver file(s) it
needs again,but wasn't sure it would work (where it ended up saying it
couldn't find the file)
Faxing is something I'm not experienced with anyway. I always end up
feeling if the fax sends (via the Lexmark setup) it's just a lucky fluke
(LOL) I really don't know what I'm doing (like if I should use 1 in front of
a number, etc. I can fax out of state okay, but can't seem to figure out the
dialing for in state toll calls. If it needs 1 and the area code, etc. it
doesn't work. if I add a 1 and area code to the number it comes up twice
when it dials and doesn't work)
Maybe I could GET a fax through the Lexmark program, I don't know. I would
be using my home phone number for a fax and seems like Ishould have the
program getting it up on the screen, waiting.
(I should say, when I had Win 98 this came with "Ring Central Fax" and I
had that set up so I knew how to send AND receive faxes. But, now I have
WinXP and it's different)
Thanks,
Carrie
Faxing died with the dinosaurs. Faxing today is calling e-mailing.
Anything they can send via fax can be sent via e-mail. If the sender
has a scanner to fax, they have a scanner to save to a file and send
that to you.
Rather than tie up your phone call waiting for a fax to arrive and which
will piss off anyone else trying to call you when they hear fax tones,
get a free eFax account. Sending faxes through eFax costs money but
receiving them is free. You can use e-mail or your data/fax modem to
send faxes to someone else but use eFax to receive faxes without tying
up your phone line. The sender sends their fax to eFax who then sends
it to you as an attachment to an e-mail. You do need to install their
software to read their proprietary file format for the attached file
(their paid service lets you select to send in the less compacted .tif
format so you can use the Windows-included Fax viewer to see those
files). In fact, you don't even need to use your data/fax modem to send
faxes. Another free receive-only fax service is K7.com but they'll
expire your account if you don't receive at least one fax per month
through that account. K7 uses the .tif format so you don't need extra
software to read those faxes which arrive as e-mails to you. You can
use Faxzero.com to send them (up to 3 pages in length) using a web
interface. So you can send using Faxzero and receive using eFax or K7.
I still sometimes use my data/fax modem to send faxes but occasionally I
use Faxzero, like to send a keep-alive fax to my K7 account so it
doesn't expire. I also used Faxzero to send faxes when the fax number
is a long-distance call to eliminate those charges to send the fax. The
free eFax account doesn't let you assign a local phone number (the paid
account does) and the same for the K7 service, and why I use Faxzero to
send a keep alive fax to K7 to eliminate the long-distance charge.
Although eFax is free for receiving only mode, you don't get a local
phone number for where to receive faxes. Same for K7. However, I
consider that a penalty against anyone that is so stuck in ancient
technology that they think they need to send me a fax instead of e-mail.
If they don't want to make a long-distance phone call to send me a fax,
they should instead send me an e-mail. So the penalty might prod them
to rethink just how they are going to send me that document.
If the Lexmark really is an all-in-one device that includes faxing, it
should receive. If not, it really isn't an all-in-one device. Faxing
goes both ways, so sending without be able to receive means an
incomplete faxing device. You didn't mention WHICH model of Lexmark
all-in-one device that you have. Since you didn't identify the model, I
picked one: the X2500. It's user guide is at
http://www.lexmark.com/publications/pdfs/2007/2500/v3709407_en.pdf.
Page 46 describes how to send faxes. Page 47 describes how to receive
them.
For now, just use the Lexmark to receive faxes. When you have it
enabled to receive faxes, your phone line will be tied up as the Lexmark
will answer incoming calls. You might be able to set the Lexmark
software to wait for, say, 4 rings so you can pickup the call to see if
a person called or if you hear fax tones (and if you hear fax tones then
follow their instructions on how to transfer the call to the Lexmark).
Otherwise, take the easy route and create a free eFax or K7 account and
make the sender send their fax to those phone numbers and you'll get it
via e-mail.
.
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