It's expensive for more than a page or two because faxes have to be sent all the way back to the 1980s.So, here is how you can do it in some simple easy to follow steps. Office supply stores often let you send faxes for a fee. If they weren't then I have to try again.Īs far as I know this is free aside from the cost of the phone line, but there are places you can go to pay to send a fax. It tells me whether or not the documents were successfully sent. This has a picture of that cover sheet on it. If the line is busy I hear a busy signal, like on a phone.Ī minute or two later, a confirmation page is printed. Then I push a big green button and the copy machine scans all the papers and transmits them wherever they need to go. I have to dial 8 first for some mysterious reason. I use the touchscreen to select the fax function and then I use a keypad to dial in the fax number, which is basically a phone number. Once I fill out the cover sheet, I put the papers on the machine as if I were simply copying them. I've never received a fax but I suspect the cover sheet is illegible to the recipient. Master copies of this form were lost decades ago, so it's all distorted and covered with artifacts and spots because it's been copied and recopied too many times. Since we deal with private information there's a cover sheet form to fill out, it says to destroy the information and call us if it gets to the wrong person. I work in a medical lab and have to send a fax every few days. This is also why it's very dangerous to send your credit card number over a fax - some random fax machine is going to print it in a very likely to be unobserved central area of an office building. Often people forget to do that and received faxes are left piled up at the fax machine. On the other end, your recipient's fax machine will automatically receive and print the document, and the human being who is receiving it will have to walk over to his or her office's fax machine and grab it. So anyway, at your office's fax machine (usually located by the copy machine - often it's the same machine), you put your document in the fax/copy tray, and then dial your recipient's fax number, and hit send. Business cards still list phone, fax, and email. (This is why the answer is different from /u/R031E5's answer in which you have to call to ask for the tone - because in that example there is no dedicated fax line.) Most companies in the US still have a dedicated fax line with its own unique number.
You have a central fax machine in the office with a dedicated fax line. We actually still use faxes all the time in my office in the US. *Free as long as you don't count the cost of both faxes and the call charge. Much more difficult than hacking an email. Sending a fax means that a one-to-one connection is created, thus you would need to tap into somebody's line to intercept the fax. On the internet, your email is mixed with all sorts of information and can be lost or stolen easily. Also it's actually a very secure way to send a document. It's now still used because it's the only legal way to send a document and have it traced back to you (because of the Dialer's ID. Before email, if you wanted for a letter to get to the other side of the state immediately (that is, with signatures and legal stuff) you could send it and have it received immediately using a fax. You dial someone as if you were to call them, it's through the voice audio that both faxes can communicate. It will hang up when the fax is done uploading.ĭo you do it from the computer or the printer?īoth, this are the steps to send it through faxes (the ol' style), but you can use a computer for this.ĭo you press some numbers so the person in fx Australia will get it? Hang up, your fax is now transmitting information through the line.You will hear a beep tone, now you press the green "start" button on your fax.Tell him to give you a tone (press the green "start" button on their fax).Reporting it brings it to our attention and will definitely be looked at by someone. If something is not reported, it will most likely slip past us. If you see anyone breaking the rules above, please report the post and/or message the mods.
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