Sending & receiving multipage faxes: how does it work (or doesn't it)?

[Jonathan Sachs]

I'm considering a business venture in which I will have to rely
heavily on fax communication. I would prefer to send and receive
faxes through one of the commercial fax services like eFax. First,
however, I must be sure that whatever service I choose (and its
software, and my hardware) can treat multipage transmissions as single
documents.

How do the various fax services deal with this issue? The only fax
software I'm familiar with (Microsoft Fax Console) treats each page
received as a separate image file, which will be unworkable when most
documents contain a dozen pages or more. Similarly, when I put a
multipage document through a sheetfed scanner, I must be able to send
the resulting set of images as a unit.

Do any or all of the fax services deal with these requirements? Do
any or all of the low-end sheetfed scanners support them?

My email address is LLM041103 at earthlink dot net.

[Earl F. Parrish]

Post by Jonathan Sachs
I'm considering a business venture in which I will have to rely
heavily on fax communication. I would prefer to send and receive
faxes through one of the commercial fax services like eFax.
First,
however, I must be sure that whatever service I choose (and its
software, and my hardware) can treat multipage transmissions as single
documents.
How do the various fax services deal with this issue? The only fax
software I'm familiar with (Microsoft Fax Console) treats each
page
received as a separate image file, which will be unworkable when most
documents contain a dozen pages or more. Similarly, when I put a
multipage document through a sheetfed scanner, I must be able to send
the resulting set of images as a unit.
Do any or all of the fax services deal with these requirements?
Do
any or all of the low-end sheetfed scanners support them?
My email address is LLM041103 at earthlink dot net.

If you fax from the application creating the document, you can fax
as many pages as you could send to a printer. If you put the pages
into a fax machine one by one, the same thing would happen as
sending the document to Windows XP fax one page at a time. If you
want to send documents of multiple types such as pictures,
spreadsheets or Word documents to the same destination, you would
have to integrate the fax into Microsoft Outlook.

[Jonathan Sachs]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:51:10 GMT, "Earl F. Parrish"

Post by Earl F. Parrish
If you put the pages
into a fax machine one by one, the same thing would happen as
sending the document to Windows XP fax one page at a time.

Thanks for your response. Could you clarify this part, please? If I
interpret it literally it appears to say that fax machines send each
page as a separate fax, but I'm sure that is not what you meant.

My email address is LLM041103 at earthlink dot net.

[Earl F. Parrish]

Post by Jonathan Sachs
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:51:10 GMT, "Earl F. Parrish"

Post by Earl F. Parrish
If you put the pages
into a fax machine one by one, the same thing would happen as
sending the document to Windows XP fax one page at a time.

Thanks for your response. Could you clarify this part, please?
If I
interpret it literally it appears to say that fax machines send each
page as a separate fax, but I'm sure that is not what you meant.
My email address is LLM041103 at earthlink dot net.

I am saying that if you select each page of a hard copy and place it
in a fax machine and enter a number, each page will be sent as a
separate fax. Windows XP is no different. Faxing from Microsoft
Word or Excel using the Print function and selecting Fax is the same
as taking your ten page hard copy document and placing it in the fax
machine tray in one stack. You then dial one number to send all the
pages to one destination. If your Word document has ten pages, ten
pages will be sent when you use the Print/Fax functions. All fax
programs work that way Some commercial fax programs, which you do
not get for free, let you chose what you want to fax after you start
the fax program. They still let you fax from applications also.

[Earl F. Parrish]

Post by Jonathan Sachs
I'm considering a business venture in which I will have to rely
heavily on fax communication. I would prefer to send and receive
faxes through one of the commercial fax services like eFax.
First,
however, I must be sure that whatever service I choose (and its
software, and my hardware) can treat multipage transmissions as single
documents.
How do the various fax services deal with this issue? The only fax
software I'm familiar with (Microsoft Fax Console) treats each
page
received as a separate image file, which will be unworkable when most
documents contain a dozen pages or more. Similarly, when I put a
multipage document through a sheetfed scanner, I must be able to send
the resulting set of images as a unit.
Do any or all of the fax services deal with these requirements?
Do
any or all of the low-end sheetfed scanners support them?
My email address is LLM041103 at earthlink dot net.

If you are using a scanner, you would scan to an application such as
a graphics program, a word processing program or Acrobat. You would
then use that program to Print to the Fax program.