[UCIMC-Tech] Fax

[JOY]

Brian,
I really appreciate your helping troubleshoot this issue. We do receive and
send faxes, and increasingly more so. I had thought faxing was pretty much
obsolete. I thought wrong! It is actually quite surprising the number of
folks that come in to fax... at least once or twice per day to send or
receive. We (someone in the know) always has to be present and go through
the unplugging process. Ideally it would be great to receive faxes at any
time without having to manipulate the machines but I understand if that is
not practical.
Joy

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Brian Duggan <bcdugga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Two options:
>
> 1. If we never receive faxes, we can just turn off incoming faxes on the
> machine.
>
> 2. We can configure the machine to pick up after more rings than the
> answering machine. This still depends on someone being present to unplug
> the answering machine when you know someone will be trying to send a fax.
>
> The short story is there's no good way to do this without a dedicated
> phone line. Josh, Chris and I are trying to figure out if that's possible.
>
> Thanks
> Brian
>
> On 9/17/10 5:30 PM, JOY wrote:
> > Hey Brian,
> >
> > I just ran a test. There are 4 rings before the machine picks up. You
> > clearly hear Mike's voice with the lovely sound of the kkssssssshhhhhh
> > in the background. Now what?
> > Joy
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Brian Duggan <bcdugga at gmail.com
> > <mailto:bcdugga at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Joy,
> >
> >     I recombobulated the phone lines in the finance office. The line goes
> >     from the wall to the answering machine to a splitter. The splitter
> goes
> >     to the phone and then to the print/fax machine.
> >
> >     Try sending a fax next time you're here and see how it goes. Call me
> if
> >     it doesn't work. The only issue that I can think of by having the fax
> >     permanently on the phone line is that if the fax picks up before the
> >     answering machine, people will hear kkssshhh.... Do you know how many
> >     rings the answering machine allows before picking up?
> >
> >     Thanks!
> >     Brian
> >
> >     On 9/16/10 5:18 PM, JOY wrote:
> >     > Hey All,
> >     >
> >     > I don't remember what the status was of us having a splitter or
> >     setup so
> >     > that we do not have to unplug phone lines, plug in fax lines, be
> >     > available to receive a fax, etc.
> >     >
> >     > Can we get this to function more easily?
> >     > Thanks,
> >     > Joy
> >     >
> >     > --
> >     > Joy Davis
> >     > UCIMC Office Manager
> >     > 202 S. Broadway Ave., Suite 100
> >     > Urbana, IL 61801
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> >     >
> >     >
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> >     --
> >     Brian Duggan
> >     Technical Projects Developer
> >     UC Independent Media Center
> >     http://www.ucimc.org | 309 310 7026
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joy Davis
> > UCIMC Office Manager
> > 202 S. Broadway Ave., Suite 100
> > Urbana, IL 61801
> > imcbooks at gmail.com <mailto:imcbooks at gmail.com>
> > 217.344.8820
> > www.ucimc.org <http://www.ucimc.org>
>
> --
> Brian Duggan
> Technical Projects Developer
> UC Independent Media Center
> http://www.ucimc.org | 309 310 7026
>



-- 
Joy Davis
UCIMC Office Manager
202 S. Broadway Ave., Suite 100
Urbana, IL 61801
imcbooks at gmail.com
217.344.8820
www.ucimc.org
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