Brother Intellifax 4750e as a printer??

Is it possible to use this fax machine as a printer by sending it a
'fax' directly from your PC?

BoyntonStu <stu@aaronj.com> wrote:
>Is it possible to use this fax machine as a printer by sending it a
>'fax' directly from your PC?

You can use this as a printer directly connected to your PC using Parallel or
USB cables and downloading the drivers from
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com...od=fax4750e_us

That would be much simpler than sending a FAX to it, and the formatting of the
document would be better.
However if you do want to do it by sending a FAX that is also possible but you
would need to make sure that your FAX has access to the telephone line while
the PC is on line, no problem if you are on broadband but an issue if your PC
is on dial-up using the same telephone line as the FAX. Not sure you would want
to do it this way though.
Tony
MS MVP Printing/Imaging

On Oct 18, 4:44 pm, Tony <tonythebengalti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> BoyntonStu <s...@aaronj.com> wrote:
> >Is it possible to use this fax machine as a printer by sending it a
> >'fax' directly from your PC?
>
> You can use this as a printer directly connected to your PC using Parallel or
> USB cables and downloading the drivers fromhttp://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us/en/dlf/download...
>
> That would be much simpler than sending a FAX to it, and the formatting of the
> document would be better.
> However if you do want to do it by sending a FAX that is also possible but you
> would need to make sure that your FAX has access to the telephone line while
> the PC is on line, no problem if you are on broadband but an issue if your PC
> is on dial-up using the same telephone line as the FAX. Not sure you would want
> to do it this way though.
> Tony
> MS MVP Printing/Imaging

Thanks, I didn't know that.

Will it also work with XP or just with Vista?

BoyntonStu <stu@aaronj.com> wrote:
>On Oct 18, 4:44 pm, Tony <tonythebengalti...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> BoyntonStu <s...@aaronj.com> wrote:
>> >Is it possible to use this fax machine as a printer by sending it a
>> >'fax' directly from your PC?
>>
>> You can use this as a printer directly connected to your PC using Parallel or
>> USB cables and downloading the drivers
>>fromhttp://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us/en/dlf/download...
>>
>> That would be much simpler than sending a FAX to it, and the formatting of
>>the
>> document would be better.
>> However if you do want to do it by sending a FAX that is also possible but
>>you
>> would need to make sure that your FAX has access to the telephone line while
>> the PC is on line, no problem if you are on broadband but an issue if your PC
>> is on dial-up using the same telephone line as the FAX. Not sure you would
>>want
>> to do it this way though.
>> Tony
>> MS MVP Printing/Imaging
>
>Thanks, I didn't know that.
>
>Will it also work with XP or just with Vista?

It will work with both according to Brother. I have set up several Brother
FAX's as PC printers in Windows XP but not yet in Vista, I see no reason why it
wouldn't work provided Brother have written the drivers well. I haven't seen
any bad drivers from Brother in recent times however.
If you go to the web site I posted, just select the appropriate options and you
will be directed to the correct driver for your printer/FAX.
Good luck.
Tony
MS MVP Printing/Imaging