Fax question

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I have installed a LesMark X63 to my laptop and now I
don't know how to fax from my computer. I also have a dsl
broadband on it and I cannot fax period. In the Windows
XP if I want to send a fax and I have a fax device on my
computer I can fax from my computer. Why can't I do that
with my LexMark
 
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I have installed a LesMark X63 to my laptop and now I
don't know how to fax from my computer. I also have a dsl
broadband on it and I cannot fax period. In the Windows
XP if I want to send a fax and I have a fax device on my
computer I can fax from my computer. Why can't I do that
with my LexMark
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The Lexmark is not necessary to fax from your computer. If your
computer has a fax modem connected to an analog telephone line, you
can fax directly from an application using the computer's fax driver
as a print destination. The Lexmark can fax directly from its tray
through the attached phone line whether a computer is attached or
not. The Lexmark becomes involved in computer faxing when you want
to use the Lexmark as a scanner to get a paper document into the
computer for annotation or editing prior to faxing from the
computer. If you simply want to fax a piece of paper, why get the
computer involved at all? From a quick review of the manual, it
appears that you cannot send a fax from the computer through the
Lexmark printer or send a received fax from the Lexmark to the
computer except by scanning the paper document and saving it as a
file on the computer. Computer fax programs only can send faxes to
communications ports or virtual communications ports. The USB
connection between the computer and the Lexmark does not incorporate
a virtual communications port.

By the way, you may have difficulty getting the computer to go on
standby while connected to the Lexmark. If you have that problem,
search the Microsoft Knowledge Base for a solution.
 
-----Original Message-----
I have installed a LesMark X63 to my laptop and now I
don't know how to fax from my computer. I also have a dsl
broadband on it and I cannot fax period. In the Windows
XP if I want to send a fax and I have a fax device on my
computer I can fax from my computer. Why can't I do that
with my LexMark
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Sorry, I'm not sure I understand the question, but I'll
take a stab at it.

I'm looking for a better way, but so far, I've gotten my
fax to work by using the dialup line (marked "phone",
coming out of the filter.). I plug it into the back of
the pc, then I tell the fax console what I want. I set up
the configuration to print the fax on my printer. Yours
should work that way. Or you could click the title of the
fax on the inbox of the console, then right click and tell
it to print. It'll go to your default printer that you've
configured. LexMark shouldn't be a problem.

If you want to send a fax, have you tried using
the "import" tool to get something from your pc to send to
the fax machine?
 
Fax only works with analog phone lines. It appears that you don't have any
analog phone line connected to your modem. Can you please confirm?

Thanks,
Anand

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Microsoft Printing, Imaging & Fax Team

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