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    Talking PC to Fax help needed!

    These days we try and email our clients all their confirmations for the bookings we make for them and also the venues we deal with, however, in some cases we have to use the fax machine, when emailing isn't an option.

    So, I was wondering if anyone from the great YD massive has the following:-

    1. A programme/piece of software that would enable us to send our emails and/or other documents from our PC's to a fax machine. I know this can be done and possibly via a PC modem, but we don't appear to have any software installed. Perhaps we may be able to use this to accept faxes to our PC's. I should also add that we use a router and our broadband and fax share the same line, hopefully this will be OK.

    2. I looked on t'interweb and there's a number of companies who offer free 30 day trials then you have to pay etc., etc., but I like the words FREE!!

    I should also say that this isn't something we want to do all the time as we only send faxes when we have to.

    Any advise and tips will be gratefully received.

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    Impact Color Fax Lite by Black Ice software basic software but will do the job via a modem ,if you are using MS XP it has built in fax support already ,you might have to enable in add remove / windows options .
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    To send a fax by email

    Use the following format in the To: field

    remote-printer.firstname_surname/company_name@faxnumber.iddd.tpc.int

    Underscores (_) become spaces and forward slash (/) becomes carriage return (enter)
    Faxnumber should be international code and drop area code 0 eg 441246470823
    So to send to Arthur Test at ANY Company Ltd on 01234 567890 you would put

    remote-printer.Arthur_Test/ANY_Company_Ltd@441234567890.iddd.tpc.int

    Not used it for a while as I just got a very old PC with XP on it and I use it to send faxes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arfie View Post
    To send a fax by email

    Use the following format in the To: field

    remote-printer.firstname_surname/company_name@faxnumber.iddd.tpc.int

    Underscores (_) become spaces and forward slash (/) becomes carriage return (enter)
    Faxnumber should be international code and drop area code 0 eg 441246470823
    So to send to Arthur Test at ANY Company Ltd on 01234 567890 you would put

    remote-printer.Arthur_Test/ANY_Company_Ltd@441234567890.iddd.tpc.int

    Not used it for a while as I just got a very old PC with XP on it and I use it to send faxes.

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    just print the confirmation out.
    Put the print out in a fax machine.
    Dial the other persons fax machine.
    Press start.

    Simple.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CMOT View Post
    Impact Color Fax Lite by Black Ice software basic software but will do the job via a modem ,if you are using MS XP it has built in fax support already ,you might have to enable in add remove / windows options .
    Just installed it on my PC and will try it out tonight.

    Quote Originally Posted by Arfie View Post
    To send a fax by email

    Use the following format in the To: field

    remote-printer.firstname_surname/company_name@faxnumber.iddd.tpc.int

    Underscores (_) become spaces and forward slash (/) becomes carriage return (enter)
    Faxnumber should be international code and drop area code 0 eg 441246470823
    So to send to Arthur Test at ANY Company Ltd on 01234 567890 you would put

    remote-printer.Arthur_Test/ANY_Company_Ltd@441234567890.iddd.tpc.int

    Not used it for a while as I just got a very old PC with XP on it and I use it to send faxes.

    Arfie
    So, this isn't a quick fix then. Good job Mrs43 didn't read this, she'd pack in.

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    Hells teeth, Arfie....

    Gram43,

    just print the confirmation out.
    Put the print out in a fax machine.
    Dial the other persons fax machine.
    Press start.

    Simple.

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    if i remember correctly you have to have the telephone line connected to the modem of the PC your using and also plugged into the wall socket which i had forgotten a while ago
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    Quote Originally Posted by Air Guzzler View Post
    if i remember correctly you have to have the telephone line connected to the modem of the PC your using and also plugged into the wall socket which i had forgotten a while ago
    Ha, Ha, it does help!
    I used a programme years ago where we saved a document as a certain file type then went through the process of using a "virtual fax" on our PC so send. Bit gimmicky and a lot of work for very little.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arfie View Post
    To send a fax by email

    Use the following format in the To: field

    remote-printer.firstname_surname/company_name@faxnumber.iddd.tpc.int

    snip
    Out of interest I tried this yesterday as I'd not used it for ages, I got the bounced email this morning.

    You aren't using XP by any chance are you? If so, read THIS and you are sorted otherwise let me know if CMOT's program is any good

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arfie View Post
    Out of interest I tried this yesterday as I'd not used it for ages, I got the bounced email this morning.

    You aren't using XP by any chance are you? If so, read THIS and you are sorted otherwise let me know if CMOT's program is any good

    Arfie
    I'm more or less set up with this XP extension now, but have had a couple of mishaps/system crashes with it, so I'll keep fiddling. Have ordered a couple of telephone socket adapters as I can't unplug my phone just to have the modem plugged in! Phone is more important.
    Hopefully when I get the adapters I'll be on my way.
    I did notice the programme had a coverpage editor, but I can't get it to accept my bespoke fax page, so more fiddling is required.

    Ta, for the tip anyway.
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    I couldn't be arsed with the coverpage thing either so I just print all docs as pdf files.

    I then either do a coverpage on word and print it as a pdf or handwrite it and scan it as a pdf then merge the two files together and send that by fax.

    It's a bit of messing about, but I send so few that it's less time than working out how to setup a decent coverpage

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