Chapter 20 -- Sending and Receiving Faxes

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Chapter 20

If you have a fax device, such as a fax modem, installed on your system, Microsoft Windows 2000 automatically installs the fax service and a driver for your fax device, allowing you to send and receive faxes. The visible manifestation of the fax driver is an item in your Printers folder called Fax. (It can be renamed, of course, but that's its default name.) To fax a document, you need to do little more than open the document in its parent application, choose the application's Print command, and specify Fax as your output device.

You can make multiple copies of the fax driver and create distinct properties for each copy. For example, you could set up separate copies with separate billing codes. Or you could use one copy for immediate transmission and another for offpeak hours. Windows 2000 doesn't support shared fax devices, however.

Along with the fax driver, Windows 2000 supplies a cover page editor and four sample cover pages. You can use the samples as they are or modify them, or use the editor to build your own from scratch.