Treat fax machines like remote printers instead of remote copiers.
Faxing a document traditionally involves two fax machines: one that scans your document and one that prints your document. If the document in question is already stored on a computer, it makes more sense to print the document from the computer to the target fax machine. This yields a much higher-quality fax, and it is much more convenient. On a Windows machine with a fax modem, you can install a Fax printer that behaves like any other system printer.
Faxes tend to look bad because the process of scanning a document adds noise, skews text, and generally degrades the appearance. Artwork and photographs suffer the most corruption. Printing a document to the target fax machine, on the other hand, dispenses with scanning. Text looks sharp, and images are preserved with dithering.
Windows XP and Windows 2000 will create a Fax printer when you install a fax-capable modem (Start > Setting > Control Panel > Phone and Modem Options > Modems > Add . . . ). Using Acrobat or your authoring program, print your document to this Fax printer and a wizard will open. This fax wizard asks for the recipient's phone number and enables you to fill in a cover page. Upon completion, your modem will dial out to the destination fax machine and send your document.
A useful series of Windows fax articles is available from http://labmice.techtarget.com/windows2000/printing/fax.htm.
If you fax PDFs frequently, consider adding a Print to Fax item to the PDF right-click context menu.
Windows XP and 2000:
Faxing a document traditionally involves two fax machines: one that scans your document and one that prints your document. If the document in question is already stored on a computer, it makes more sense to print the document from the computer to the target fax machine. This yields a much higher-quality fax, and it is much more convenient. On a Windows machine with a fax modem, you can install a Fax printer that behaves like any other system printer.
Faxes tend to look bad because the process of scanning a document adds noise, skews text, and generally degrades the appearance. Artwork and photographs suffer the most corruption. Printing a document to the target fax machine, on the other hand, dispenses with scanning. Text looks sharp, and images are preserved with dithering.
Windows XP and Windows 2000 will create a Fax printer when you install a fax-capable modem (Start > Setting > Control Panel > Phone and Modem Options > Modems > Add . . . ). Using Acrobat or your authoring program, print your document to this Fax printer and a wizard will open. This fax wizard asks for the recipient's phone number and enables you to fill in a cover page. Upon completion, your modem will dial out to the destination fax machine and send your document.
A useful series of Windows fax articles is available from http://labmice.techtarget.com/windows2000/printing/fax.htm.
If you fax PDFs frequently, consider adding a Print to Fax item to the PDF right-click context menu.
Windows XP and 2000:
- In the Windows File Explorer menu, select Tools > Folder Options . . . and click the File Types tab. Select the PDF file type and click the Advanced button.
- Click the New . . . button and a New Action dialog appears. Give the new action the name Print to Fax.
- Give the action an application to open by clicking the Browse . . . button and selecting Acrobat.exe, which lives somewhere such as C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Acrobat\. Or, use Reader (AcroRd32.exe) instead of Acrobat.
- Add arguments after Acrobat.exe or AcroRd32.exe like so: "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe" /t "%1" Fax
- Click OK, OK, OK and you should be done with the configuration.
To integrate fax features into your network, use HylaFAX. Visit http://www.hylafax.org and http://www.ifax.com, and consult the fa.hylafax newsgroup.
1 comments:
Hi,
You must first enable and configure the fax service, you should use the print to fax routine from the document's application. Using the print to fax is no different than from printing to a ordinary printer. Thanks a lot.
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