Faxes may seem antiquated, but for some people and businesses, they are still imperative in their existence. Faxes however is not for everyone. Most will consider email as simpler, and faster than sending a fax. In consideration, faxing requires setup of services or hardware. This will be an obstruction for those that would want a fax machine. With that said, there are a few things to consider.
First is to deal with obsolete machines. These are machines that would connect to network via a telephone jack. Since the POTS? telephone network will be shutting down, this will one day soon not be a solution that they can rely on. Before that time happens, they must acquire an ATA?, and setup the credentials into that ATA. The fax machine will plug into the ATA, and the ATA will plug into the LAN?. Ka-Tel will offer a free internet account for regular consumers with signing up for service. If they don’t have Fiber Optic, they will receive a BPL? modem. All faxes will the go across the internet.
For supported systems, the “fax” machine will be built into the printer. The customer will go to Settings > Fax > Setup. From there, they will provide their SIP? credentials to connect the printer to receive and send faxes. Faxes will usually be loaded into the ADF, and scanned before sending it off. The printer will then email the fax report as to not waste paper on such trivial, but possibly important information.