Send Free Fax From Windows XP Using Dial Up Connection

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Intoduction:

At broadband leading age, most of us do use dial up connection.Also we use various services with the help of that small dialup connection. Mostly these dial up connection provides a bandwidth of 40-45 kbps if that modem is of good quality especially D-Link. Comming back to the topic, we use several applications in that small connectivity speed. how about this one? If some one explains you to use fax services in an operating system such as windows XP with the helpof dial up modem connection.

Ok!! take this one Use a Free Fax services From Windows XP Using Dial Up Connection. Strange right but it is possible.

If you are Windows XP as a operating system, you are able to use fax services which are inbuilt into Windows XP operating system in order to send and receive faxes from your machine.

The basic advantage of using Windows XP operating system based fax system is there will be no paper wastage. Also no need of printing pages before sending through fax. You will be able to read, save, delete, or also attach incoming faxes to email by not using a piece of paper. Definitely you will beable to print them too.

As many user's don't require fax services everyday, but you can manage for a phone line, a good modem, and a 3 in 1 printer, scanner and copier (EPSON 1500CX) or any brand which has these features in order to send and receive faxes from your computer. In order to use fax , the modem and scanner required is not to be a costly one or special type. Even a 33.6 kbps speed of modem can provide you dispatch service of a multi-page letter in few seconds or minute.

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Procedure to Send Free Fax From Windows XP Using Dial Up Connection:

The fax service which will be used by you will not be pre-installed in Windows XP operating system. So first you have to install Fax components within your XP operating system.

Installation of Fax Component:

1. Click on Start.
2. Open Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Click Add/Remove Windows Components.
5. Click on the Fax Services check box, and then click Next.
6. The Windows Component Wizard will start with it's working.

IMP: Ensure taht you have already installed modem. Also ensure that modem is connected to proper phone line port and the phone line port is connected to a working jack.

As the fax component is installed now, next step to proceed for is configuring it. You will be able to configure the Fax service in the Fax Console wizard, the middle one for faxing tasks.

• In order to configure the Fax Console, follow these steps:

1. Click Start.
2. Go to All Programs.
3. Then Accessories.
4. Click Communications.
5. Select Fax and then click Fax Console.

• You will see tools menu in Fax Console window, just click on Configure Fax, which will help you to start the procedure for Fax Configuration Wizard. Then Click Next in order to start configuring your fax information.

• You will find a Sender Information page, in taht just include your name or your business name and your fax number available. Other information on the page optional and not so required.

• You will find a Select Device option in order to Send or Receive Fax pages, In this your modem will be selected, unless you have more than one options available, in such cases, select the proper one. Also try to specify send and receive options that whether you will manually answer recieving faxes or will answer when received.

• Check the Transmitting Subscriber Identification (TSID) and Called Subscriber Identification (CSID) pages and try to enter your business name and fax number. These fields are important when you are using special fax routing software. Many software of such types depends on TSIDs in order to determine for direct an incoming fax.

• As you will enter the Routing Options page, try to specify incoming faxes you will be handling at a time. All faxes will be stored in the Fax Console, but you are also able to print a copy or store a copy in a local folder or on your network folder.

• You can alos change or verify any of these settings by simply running the Fax Configuration Wizard again. Jsut open the wizard available on the Tools menu of the Fax Console and then click Configure Fax.

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Procedure for Sending Faxes from Your Computer:

You are able to fax a document which is stored on your computer or you are also able to scan a document and just fax it by sending on to your fax printer.

Steps to Fax a Document Stored on your Computer:

• You have to go on the File menu of a particular document and then click Print.
• You will recieve a window showing the Print or Print Setup dialog box in which Printer name box is available.
• Just click Fax in order to open the Send Fax Wizard.
• As you are faxing from a Microsoft Office program which is on the File menu, just point in order to Send To, and then click on the Fax Recipient.
• The Microsoft office Fax Wizard will ask for some specific information and then provides the process in order to Send Fax Wizard.
  
  
  
• For supplying the recipient's fax number, click on Address Book, and then select one or more recipients just as similar when you try to send an e-mail message in groups.
  
• If you have already some Dialing Rules, skip it and go ahead. If you don't have any click on Dialing Rules. If you want to dial some extra digit to get an outside line, or want to use a special carrier code, or dial your area code even for some local numbers, try adding these settings in this option, and then just click ok in order to return to the fax sending option.
  
  IMP: Telephone numbers should be in canonical form in which a U.S. number should appear such as +1 (626) 555-1212. If you use even a different form such as (626) 555-1212 or 1-626-555-1212, then the dialing rules will not be applicable and the fax transmission will fail and not support your machine.
  
• Try to Select a cover page and just Choose from the list or select specify no cover page. If you ask me I will choose for cover sheets unless I am sending to some big corporation where it might get lost or the document needs some clarification or identification.
  
• Try to Specify the fax to be sent as well as the fax related priority. this section only matters if you are about to stack up many faxes in order to sent all at a same time. In this case, the order of sending should be determined by the priority you will set.
  
• Final step will be a screen repeating the details of the fax and asking to preview it. If the fax has a multi-page option, you have to preview the first page only.
  
• If you are sending the fax in an appropriate way, the Fax Monitor shown below will start when the dialing connection takes place.
  
  
  

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Faxing Scanned Documents:

• The other way for sending a fax is to just scan a document and then send it to your fax printer. The software that generally comes with your scanner will help you to set up this type of fax service and you can send it directly to your fax printer.
  
• But you can also fax with the help of a scanner using the tools option in Windows XP operating system.

1. Click Start
2. Open Control Panel
3. Click Printers and Other Hardware
4. Click Scanners and Cameras
5. Double-click the icon for your scanner in order to start the Scanner and Camera Wizard.
6. Choose Scanning Preferences page
7. Click Grayscale picture
8. Click Preview in oder to start the scanner.

• Try to give a name and location for the scanned document.
• Also you can open the folder that contains the image file by just right clicking the image, and then select click Print.
  
• The Photo Printing Wizard will open.
• You can select the check box in order for the image to be faxed.
• You can also select Fax as the printer you want to use.
  
• As you finish the Photo Printing Wizard, the Send Fax Wizard will open and request you to proceed according to the procedure for sending a fax from your computer.

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Receiving Faxes

As you installed and configured the fax services, receiving fax is also an easy task as logging off.

When you try to configure the Fax services, you will be specified as how the fax answers and where they should be stored.

Usually, the Fax Monitor opens when the modem gets detects with an incoming fax. You have to change when and why it opens during the Tracking tab of the Fax Properties dialog box.

In order to view an incoming fax, you have to go to the Fax Console.
Click Inbox.
Double-click an entry to view the fax in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Faxes are image files in the TIFF format, so they will not get edited as a text file can be.
But you can see, rotate, and perform general tasks with your fax document by not opening an image editing program.

For printing a fax, just right click it, and click Print. In order to send a fax as an e-mail attachment, just right-click it, point to Send to, and then click Mail Recipient.

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