Fax at home question

TheFied

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I bought this Lexmark last week upon recommendations on this board (lexmark).

I installed it this morning and so far it works great. I have it set up to print via wireless and it is on the network. Works great. I printed from my laptop upstairs and impressed so far.

I also set up the fax and the fax works but I have it set up to automatically answer on 3 rings. So my wife's sister called a few minutes ago and I didn't pick up on purpose to see if the fax would answer... and it did. So I guess I need to turn it off for 'fax auto answer'.

But let's say that I am expecting a fax sometime today. How do I set up a fax to answer it and yet still have the answering machine on? Now if I am expecting a fax in the next 10 minutes, I can obviously set it up to auto answer. But if I am expecting a fax sometime today, then I want to still have the answering machine on and basically only have the fax answer if it is another fax machine.

I am sure this is an issue with not just this printer/fax but any fax machine. Thoughts? Advice?
 
Your Fax should auto-detect those audible 'beeb' sequences that occur when the sending device initiates the Fax.

-Shouldn't matter if you have a Ans. device or not. Did you install any accompanying software provided by Lexmark? If so, click thru all the menus to double check for a setting about 'Ans.machines'.

HP has such a software setting, so, I'm guessing that maybe Lexmark does as well. In this day and age, it shouldn't be an issue.
 
I never had good luck with machines/software that check for the beep and then decide to accept the fax or send the call on to the phone.

I ended up getting a distinctive ring service from the phone company. The fax gets a special number that gives a double ring when someone faxes you, and you can setup your fax to answer the double ring only and ignore the others. Cost is $5 per month.
 

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