To send, I use a scanner, and you can fax as a printer within Windows (maybe I'm stating the obvious?)
May be not the obvious. I am not aware of this feature. Are you saying that I can enter a fax number and have Windows send it for me? I don't have a fax machine (got rid of it a long time ago).
Please elaborate.
I still use an HP LaserJet II printer because the print quality is so much better than digital. Printing digital documents from e-mail to my Laser printer is a huge hassle, very slow and pages stop, error messages, etc.
May be not the obvious. I am not aware of this feature. Are you saying that I can enter a fax number and have Windows send it for me? I don't have a fax machine (got rid of it a long time ago).
Please elaborate.
You can buy a fax/copy machine for $15 also. I used mine until the ink ran out and donated the darn thing to the landfill.
I'm a former HP LaserJet engineer.
There are a couple of things you could try with your HP LJ II to get it to print better. (The II is before my time, but I've worked with it's great-grandchildren and other descendants.)
1. Buy a memory upgrade, if there's one available for that printer anymore.
2. Select the lowest print quality in your driver. For text, 600dpi should be sufficient. (Egads, the II might be old enough so it might only be 300dpi!)
3. Buy a newer printer. IMHO, the most recent HP printers, especially on the low end, aren't the quality that the older printers used to be, particularly with the plastic parts. But the 4000/4100/4200/4300 series printers are all really good; I like the latter two the best, but you can probably get a used 4100 for pretty cheap somewhere, and it should last you a long time and be a better, faster version of the II.
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Be in line early at Fry's.Where do you find a $15 fax/copy machine? I would do the same thing if I can get my hand on one.
Where do you find a $15 fax/copy machine? I would do the same thing if I can get my hand on one.
What's this obsession with FAX? Why can we email the images instead!
By the way Sam, to have Windows send a fax you need a modem in the computer and to have the modem plug on the computer connected to a phone line.
With an e-mail, all you can prove is that you sent it - - you really don't know if they ever received it unless they choose to respond and confirm that fact.
What's a fax?
Anyway, imagine the hassle of some admissions-office person having to deal with incoming e-mail attachments of varying types. I remember at w*ork, there were always several levels of nuisance to this: "Did you get my attachment?" "We didn't get your attachment." "We can't open your attachment." "No, we still can't open it." "I must have forgotten to attach it" "It's too big; it won't go through"/"it's too small; I can't read it" bla bla bla. Who has time for all of that -especially chasing people down- if it's just something to be read and then filed? Of course if you need the content to be in electronic form you put up with it.
What's this obsession with FAX? Why can we email the images instead!
Big reason for me: you can annotate a fax a lot more easily.
And as others said, it takes less time.
Wow, that's soooo 'old school'At least for "important" documents, I'd rather have a piece of paper I can easily file and make quick copies of than some PDF on a hard drive somewhere. I want a hard copy anyway, just in case.
I have my email set to show the images in-line with one click. Not a bother.My mail attachments folder is huge. It takes time to winnow out the few important things from the crap; I have to open up every "124IMG87.jpg" to figure out if it is an important fax versus a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head? I don't want to be bothered.
Except when it doesn't. Phone line gets dropped, the line is busy, their printer jammed, ran out of toner, ran out of paper, somebody else picked up your fax with their stack, etc, etc, etc.With the fax it just shows up. I loves me the fax.
Eh - you gotta FAX problem? Wait till you buy Vista Home Premium on your new machine and then find out that you needed to buy Business or Ultimate just so you could FAX like on every other preceding Windows version. Remember Win 98 that had identifiable Fax ringtones? Then they dropped those? Gee progress is fun! Your cheapest out seems to be to buy the $30 "Snappyfax" program for Vista if you really want a Fax. We did.