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Printing, Faxing and Scanning with Vista A forum for using printers, scanners and fx with Windows Vista. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan) |
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Print to fax (Vista Home Premium)
I just purchased an HP all-in-one. The fax portion of the unit appears as a
printer option whan I want to print a documant. However, when the fax is selected, sometimes I get the fax info promt and othere times, nothing happens. What causes this and how can I fix it. Has anyone determined how to send/receive faxes throught their computer without having to print a hard copy? I used to use Winfax Pro, but that (and everything else) is not Vista compatible. Instead of stepping into the future with Vista I feel as though I have taken a giant step backwards. |
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Print to fax (Vista Home Premium)
This is not a Vista nor a Microsoft issue. There is no Microsoft Fax product
that works with all-in-one printers. It is up to HP to provide you with the necessary software for your printer. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Carol" wrote in message ... I just purchased an HP all-in-one. The fax portion of the unit appears as a printer option whan I want to print a documant. However, when the fax is selected, sometimes I get the fax info promt and othere times, nothing happens. What causes this and how can I fix it. Has anyone determined how to send/receive faxes throught their computer without having to print a hard copy? I used to use Winfax Pro, but that (and everything else) is not Vista compatible. Instead of stepping into the future with Vista I feel as though I have taken a giant step backwards. |
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Print to fax (Vista Home Premium)
Hi Carol,
What Russ says is correct Vista home premium does not come with the fax support and the s/w has to be provided by the manufecturer . However the Manufecture are providing the s/w and most of these are vista compatible and as you say it is a new printer i am sure there is one from HP so if you can provide me with the model number of printer i would be able to help. There are ways to make the older s/w work on vista but its too soon first we will check if there is a solution available if not then ofcourse will tell you . ~Deo "Carol" wrote: I just purchased an HP all-in-one. The fax portion of the unit appears as a printer option whan I want to print a documant. However, when the fax is selected, sometimes I get the fax info promt and othere times, nothing happens. What causes this and how can I fix it. Has anyone determined how to send/receive faxes throught their computer without having to print a hard copy? I used to use Winfax Pro, but that (and everything else) is not Vista compatible. Instead of stepping into the future with Vista I feel as though I have taken a giant step backwards. |
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Print to fax (Vista Home Premium)
Carol, this page may be of assistance:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2029566_send-fax-vista.html "Carol" wrote: I just purchased an HP all-in-one. The fax portion of the unit appears as a printer option whan I want to print a documant. However, when the fax is selected, sometimes I get the fax info promt and othere times, nothing happens. What causes this and how can I fix it. Has anyone determined how to send/receive faxes throught their computer without having to print a hard copy? I used to use Winfax Pro, but that (and everything else) is not Vista compatible. Instead of stepping into the future with Vista I feel as though I have taken a giant step backwards. |
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Print to fax (Vista Home Premium)
On Jan 11, 10:29*am, John Northup John
wrote: Carol, this page may be of assistance: http://www.ehow.com/how_2029566_send-fax-vista.html "Carol" wrote: I just purchased an HP all-in-one. *The fax portion of the unit appears as a printer option whan I want to print a documant. *However, when the fax is selected, sometimes I get the fax info promt and othere times, nothing happens. *What causes this and how can I fix it. *Has anyone determined how to send/receive faxes throught their computer without having to print a hard copy? *I used to use Winfax Pro, but that (and everything else) is not Vista compatible. *Instead of stepping into the future with Vista I feel as though I have taken a giant step backwards.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I have 3 computers on my network. Two of them are running Windows XP. I set the BVRP Phone tools for shared printing on a windows XP machine and then installed it as a network printer on my Vista home premium machine and now I can fax any document on my vista machine through the windows X?P machine on the network. |