Re: [PCWorks] Faxes and email: Can you send a fax from a PC that uses DSL? (WAS: Converter/adapter from parallel printer port to USB port)

  • From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:03:52 -0600

So you'd have to have a **dial-up** (56k fax) modem, right?

If so, I guess I could always hook up one that's USB just to 
fax then remove it.
-Clint

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hugh Vandervoort" <hughva@xxxxxxxxx>



You would send faxes the same way David does. All you need is a 
fax
modem and a telephone line.


On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin
<> wrote:

> Unfortunately are still demanding the use of a fax. I 
> recently
> got a keyboard skin and the form said it had to be mailed in 
> or
> faxed. So I emailed them to asked if the info could simply be
> emailed (and I also sent them ALL of the info, even an image 
> of
> the keyboard in case it could be emailed), and some spaz said
> "you must fax it in". So now I have to waste an entire
> freakin' black ink cartridge printing out a (mostly black)
> image of the keyboard.
>
> This brings up the question: how can you send a fax from a PC
> when you're using a DSL modem? I assume it's not possible
> since there is no way to dial? I did send faxes many years 
> ago
> but that was when I was on dial-up.
> -Clint

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