Is the fax wireless or do I need a home ground line for faxing?
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Hello niki deen: The only phone line you need to connect incoming house ( Lan line) to printer only. Faxes can be transmitted to printer wirelessly. No need to connect phone lines to computers ounce you have set up the printer wireless. You are lucky because the new printers make you pay for faxes sent and rececieved. I do not know how it works receiving faxes though from other places. I think you need to have a fax line number for that. It cost money. You can send out free faxes no problem. That is how I use my printer when sending faxes. Almost all places now use regular e-mails now. Fax machines are becomming a thing of the pass. It is nice to have one when you need it to send out a fax. Hello niki deen: The only phone line you need to connect incoming house ( Lan line) to printer only. Faxes can be transmitted to printer wirelessly. No need to connect phone lines to computers ounce you have set up the printer wireless. You are lucky because the new printers make you pay for faxes sent and rececieved. I do not know how it works receiving faxes though from other places. I think you need to have a fax line number for that. It cost money. You can send out free faxes no problem. That is how I use my printer when sending faxes. Almost all places now use regular e-mails... » Read More Hello niki deen: The only phone line you need to connect incoming house ( Lan line) to printer only. Faxes can be transmitted to printer wirelessly. No need to connect phone lines to computers ounce you have set up the printer wireless. You are lucky because the new printers make you pay for faxes sent and rececieved. I do not know how it works receiving faxes though from other places. I think you need to have a fax line number for that. It cost money. You can send out free faxes no problem. That is how I use my printer when sending faxes. Almost all places now use regular e-mails now. Fax machines are becomming a thing of the pass. It is nice to have one when you need it to send out a fax. « Show Less
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You will need a phone line input in order to use the FAX function. The line can be shared for sending with your home line. Receiving on a shared line is more difficult. There are services on the internet that you can use your PC TO send and receive Fax messages they give you a separate phone number for this. Monthly charges come with this.
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For FAX you need the phone wire. Only computer printing and scanning works (sometimes ...) wireless .... but ... don't buy it ... it's just waste of money and time. Today I had to restart this printer twice (shut down ... unplug (!!!) ... wait 1 minute ... replug ... restart ... wait 10 minutes ...).
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Sorry that I can't help you; I don't need a fax so I didn't set it up. We have 3 laptops & a Kindle that all work wirelessly with the printer.
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Hello, yes this does require a phone line hooked up to it to use the fax functions. If you don't want to invest in a perm line I use vonyage. Hope that helps. Also works well on windows 8.1 Pro.
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You can send fax by having your phone line plugged in; and going to fax using the touchpad on the device. It does fax pretty easy. My complaint with the machine is that the touchpad does not work good. I often have to touch several times before the machine reacts.
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I do not use a FAX machine but it should. It is a standard phone and works fine. I use it with my MagicJack phone service, so that is technically connected to a computer and not directly to a wall. Hope this helps. --Howard.
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NO. Suggest you go to Panasonic.com/help We are satisfied with fax, but it has minimal use at our home.
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YES! In fact it is my favorite part of this machine. You plug in a phone line and tell it to share the line. There is no separate line needed. The phone rings to receive calls and when a fax comes in the phone rings and the printer turns on and receives the fax. So much easier than other machines I have used. Faxing is just as easy. Put it in the scanner. Select fax function, put in your number and press OK. All done.
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If you have AT&T; DSL you will need to get a DSL filter for your line, otherwise you will likely get interference from the data signal on the line, or possibly interrupt your internet when using the fax. If you have an existing fax on the line, you should be fine. It has worked fine for me so far, I do not receive many faxes, though, mostly outbound.
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Actually, your fax machine has 2 rj11 jacks, one for your house/apt wall jack and the other for a telephone. Assuming your DSL service provides telephone service as well, you can plug the 2wire dsl modem to the wall, then plug the GE Duplex to the 2wire dsl modem, and then plug your printer/faxmachine "to the wall" jack to one of the 2 jacks on it. You should have one more free jack on the GE Duplex splitter, since you can use the printer/faxmachine's "to the telephone" jack for your phone if you need to...Good Luck !
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I'm looking at the printer right now, and no, It does not have a phone plugin for faxing right from the printer. however, most windows computers with modems allow you to send a fax anyway. (windows xp, 7, 8 im sure)You simply scan the document in and send it fax with a PC. Whenever you go to print a document in windows, the drop-down where you select what printer to print from also has a "fax" option. Selecting that and printing will open up a fax wizard.
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I have 1 landline and 1 HP Officejet Pro8600 printer/scanner/fax combo hooked into each other and my computer. My Officejet called for this particular item. The tail is hooked into the Officejet, the landline into one port and my computer DSL into the other port. I would look in the manual that came with your fax machine or call the company to see which kind it takes because there are several kinds our there. I think you would only need 1 landline for both as you can set your fax machine to answer on 2,3,or 4 rings usually. Hope this helps.
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sorry i don't know. he printer is very good. I love the fax on it. I could not use the wireless feature
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Nalini, The Canon FAXPHONE L190 will connect directly to a phone line for faxing. A computer is not needed for the fax function.
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Yes. This is a modem for dialup internet service connection to computer. Faxing is controlled by computer via modem to internet.
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you should have a built in fax with 8.1; look under devices and printers? you will need to run a telephone line to your computer.
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No, the fax works like an incoming call. It is a very good machine that covers all bases. We are the owners of a small business and this is perfect for us!
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If you are asking if you need a dedicated phone line, the answer is no. I only used the fax feature one time, but it did work well.
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all you need is a phone line for faxing, no computer. - if you want to use as printer and/or scan you need to connect to computer.