How did you have it set up with your old fax machine?
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From: McPeak, Harry D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 11:42 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: HARD: A-I-O fax requires separate phone number
I just purchased an HP 7310 A-I-O and was going through the setup
procedures. We have phone company voicemail on the line that I was going to
run through the HP to receive faxes. The manual and HP support are very
clear that this requires "distinctive rings", one for a fax, one for voice.
Qwest tells me what that really means is creating a different phone number
for faxes only that will ring through the same line. While we get lots of
junk, there are lots of people who send faxes to us and it is just not
feasible to try to think of them all and get the new number to them, or use
the regular message to ask them to call another number to send a fax.
What I don't understand, but may be obvious to some of you, is that if I had
a combination phone-answering machine this wouldn't be an issue. Apparently
I could hook it up and the machine could distinguish between fax and voice
calls.
Any thoughts generally, or on a good A-I-O that has a built-in fax w/o this
quirk? Or, it is inherent in any built-in fax on a line w/ phone company
voicemail? I'm a little bewildered.
TIA,
Harry
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