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From: susan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Susan Frontczak)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: Fax / telephone : Seperate lines ?
Message-ID: <8750001@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 24 May 91 17:03:05 GMT
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ratan@altos86.Altos.COM Ratan Tipirneni at Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA


|I am considering buying a Fax. My question is, do I have to get
|a seperate line for the fax or can the same one that I use for
|my telephone be used for the fax also? In the later case how
|does the fax machine detect that the incoming call is from another
|fax ?

If your line is an analog line, you can share it with a fax.  (We 
recently had digital phones installed, and therefore need separate 
lines for the fax machines. Aren't advances in technology wonderful?)

We recently bought a Canon FAX-245.  It can be used as a phone or a fax 
machine, all on its own.  It even has a speaker built in to record a
message. On "automatic receiving" you get fax transmissions if it is a
fax machine calling you, or if it is a person, then it "rings".  In
addition, if a person is calling and you are'nt there, it will play a
message recorded by you;  you can connect your answering machine to
record their message.

Of all the fax machines I've seen, this one has the best scanner.  
This is particularly apparent when transmitting photos.  There is no 
discernable "pattern" in the background, so they must have a very good 
dithering algorithm.   The machine costs just under $1000, which is 
hardly low to mid range - but the quality is excellent.

Susan

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