Posted on 10/10/2018 10:00:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
I'm trying to help out a gentleman who told me that at one time his HP all-in-one machine (OfficePro 8710) could fax out wirelessly. Not being up to the very latest technology (the guy tells me oh, no problem, it's wireless) I wonder where the interface to the phone network is? Does HP operate a private interface to the phone network on the internet to support its all-in-one machines? He says no, the machine was not connected to a phone line. Is he pulling my leg? Misremembering? I can't find anything in the manual explaining how it happens.
Our first wireless HP printer, many years back...was a nightmare. Wound up keeping a USB cable hooked to it so we could individually hookup to print. We tried it again just recently with a new HP wireless printer. It’s great. We can actually print from anywhere using the HP email addy you can sign up for. Send a document to the HP addy and it prints on the home printer. We can actually check the cartridge ink level thru the app on our phone.
Too bad we have to take out a loan to buy HP cartridges.
I’ll have to experiment with the fax thing.
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That’s the Fax Over IP protocol.
Yes it works exactly the same as a POT (plain old telephone) line using the Obihai or other type of network adapter, although there are some limitations with some adapters. We use the OBi202 which allows us to use 2 phone separate "phone lines" at once. You can actually use the OBi202 with up to 4 four numbers. I would love to use a provider other than Google, but they are free and have been for years now which keeps competitors out of the market.
Yes as you said, you do not need an all-in-one printer to send a FAX from your computer or cell phone or receive them for that matter. There are a number of services that provide this service, some of them for free, some with a paid subscription. For us, hooking the all-in-one printer to the “phone line” makes it work exactly the same as a normal FAX for sending and receiving along with being able to print and FAX documents from the computer.
The Keep It Simple Stupid principle works best for us in this case. If we want to send a FAX we generally print the document then FAX it. It is an extra step but we usually like having a hard copy in a physical file of the documents that we send to financial institutions, banks, and insurance companies anyway which are the only ones who we generally FAX to anyway.
Sorry I am old. I have no clue what that means.
I forgot, I have a “healthcare reimbursement plan” where I have to FAX multi-page documents to the administrator to get compensated. I typically scan the forms, all the receipts and create a multi-page PDF file and FAX that to them using the all-in-one printer through the WIFI connection. Otherwise I have to stand by the all-in-one printer and manually scan everything just before sending the FAX or tape the receipts to standard sized paper to get them to feed through the document feeder. It is a nuisance no matter how I do it.
Yep, what ever works. With the brother app on my phone, I can scan a doc over the wifi and then fax the scan or other files that reside on the phone. That’s pretty cool. Mostly I convert docs to .pdf and send via email or text these days though.
You certainly know more about this than I do... With the low transmitting power used in todays cell phones, there certainly would be almost no chance of interference with any aircraft systems, and that never was the issue even when using the high powered bag phones of yesteryear.
We used to always take our bag phones along with us in our private aircraft for backup emergency communications. It was amazing how when you were flying at 10,000 feet over the mountains or in the middle of nowhere... on those non-digital cell networks of yesteryear you could still get a signal and have a decent conversation. The caveat was that roaming back then typically cost $2 a minute or more. And anytime you were outside of a major urban area you were roaming.
Around urban areas the problem with using a high powered non-digital bag phone in an airplane in those days was that your phone was capable of connecting with every cell tower in a 20 to 40 mile radius. In those days this could cause problems for the networks which had a much smaller capacity. Before digital communications techniques made it possible for cell towers to handle thousands of users... a small amount of people could jam up the networks, especially if they were in airplanes which the protocols were not designed to handle. But that is the original reason cell phones were not permitted by carriers to be used in airplanes... network congestion. But as you say as soon as cell networks went digital it was no longer an issue. But the new phones also weren't powerful enough to make a call unless you were over an urban area.
thanks
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