Fax using HP 8500 all in one printer using an OBI device
dircom:
If you want to end your land land
Then you might consider an Obi 202
that way you can leave the fax connected all the time, while still being able to call in or out on a voice call
(assuming you have set up at least two providers)
Lavarock7:
I use a 202 with Line1 being a phone and line2 being an HP fax machine. I have line 2 set up for GoogleVoice, set the speed to low (like 9600 baud) and turned error correction off. It seems to work fine. I set my Fax Header to be a different inbound fax number because that GV number I use for outbound and not inbound fax.
Inbound fax is a free New York City numner I got through Callcentric. I told them the number is being used from outside the U.S. since I won't be calling 911 outbound on it. The number is answered by callCentric, a fax is received, converted to PDF and emailed to me. This saves paper and if I started getting fax junk mail, CallCentric would allow me to reject those calls.
CallCentric does have a neat option. It appears that you can take your inbound number (whether a free New York number or one you pay for) and use it for both fax AND voice. If the call is fax, it can be configured to go to their fax service, but if it is not a fax call, the call get routed to whatever device or extension you want. I have not tested this, but it looks like it works.
dircom:
I tested my free NYC CallCentric DID, and when it is not configured to receive a fax, it did not receive the fax.
When I turned faxing on, the fax was received.
The free # does not seem to be able to differentiate between voice and fax. It seems you have to turn fax on in preferences to receive a fax
Lavarock7:
dircom, you are correct. I just looked and it appears that for my testing, I had a call treatment that said if the caller ID was xxx-xxx-xxxx send to an extension.
The default for the inbound was fax.
So the system looked at caller ID when the call came in and then based upon that, sent to fax or not. that makes sense because CC could not determine if the call was fax or not until it answered the call (which it doesn't)
So if someone had another number forwarded into the free CC number, that could be used to trigger fax or not.
dircom:
So for instance, if you had a free IPKALL #, and sent your faxes to that, then you could create a treatment for that # and it would go to fax?
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