How can I receive a fax on my regular telephone line?
The sender does not have a computer so I need to be able to receive the fax on my fax machine using my regular telephone line. The Telephone Company will set me up with a special ring that activates my fax; but they will charge per month.
Tagged with: fax machine • telephone company • telephone line
Filed under: internet faxing
I don’t have neither a separate phone line, nor special equipment. You sign up with a free fax service. You get a fax # and when the fax gets sent to it, they email it to you. I have a service called efax. I signed up for their free trial (with a non-local number) and don’t pay anything for it. I am limited to how many faxed I receive for free per month – but I don’t get that many. I also can not fax out… but that’s not a problem since I scan what ever I want to fax, the printer’s software will print to fax, window’s software will send it out – all i do is connect the phone line when I’m ready to send… pretty easy… and free.
as long as you have a fax mashine hooked up then yes. some faxmashines you have an option to switch from just receiving a fax to just phone service. but not all have that.
If your computer has a tapi voice fax modem that supports caller id (they sell for about $30 for xp desktops if you don’t have one already) you can use a program I wrote called CallClerk to answer all calls from a spefic number (you need caller id too) as a fax call but have all other calls treated as regular calls. For more info see http://www.callclerk.com