How to use a fax machine

How to use a fax machine-how to send a fax hi today in this video we're going to be talking about how to send a fax so anyhow what I've got here is just kind of your garden-variety fax machine this is just uh this is a brother model this is something you've got pick up at an office supply store and I wanted to demonstrate how to send this fax so I just want to get you kind of familiar with what's going on with the fax machine and what you would need to set it up so probably besides I've already plugged the unit in here I've got A's 110 cord plugged in the next thing is a phone cord one of the big things you're going to need to

have is a landline to run this so for people out there that have decided to go just cellular only or what-have-you you're going to need a landline to use this machine there are a couple other exceptions but for the most part up is the quintessential way to use this machine first thing I'm going to do is check my dial tone can you hear that that is dial tone this machine will not work without dial tone so before you proceed any further you want to make sure you have that okay so moving right ahead here our piece of paper what we're going to send in this case I'm going to do a test fax this is a test and I'm

going to send that and basically then a fax number so I would highly recommend that you have your fax number written down before you go ahead because what happens sometimes is you'll get it all in there and not have the fax number and then you're looking for it so make sure you have the fax number handy before you start with that so anyhow we're going to go ahead and do our fax right now so we're going to go take our test page then we're going to load that we load it face down this is a for the most part than a just kind of a privacy thing in a major office if you had some sensitive material that maybe you didn't want other office personnel to see you could have it face down so we're going

to load that up on this particular model and on several of its variety you're going to have an adjustment here so if you get up to here and the paper doesn't fit you just widen it out to the point that your paper will insert so we're going to go ahead and insert this paper and just get it you want to get it just right so it's going to grab you don't want to just loosen there but you actually need to get it to the point where it will grab so this it's going to have rollers in there that's I'm just going to go and grab and feed the paper down okay so if we look at the front now it's asking asking do I want to copy this or do I want to fax this well we're going to fax this so we're going to go and enter our phone number

now so it automatically they've designed this so that in a hurry you can actually go and fax something relatively fast so I'm going to enter my fax number okay got that done down here if you can see it these are our options we can either stop it we can make a copy or we can fax so in this case we're going to fax it so we're going to hit the blue button now and what you're going to hear is you're going to hear the dial tone take off and then you'll hear the handshake commence the handshake is very important because that is how it's going to connect to another device there basically this fax machine 


the fax machine on the other end become like this they're going to make a handshake and that's how they're going to send the information so here we go here's our dial tone there's our handshake commencing you see you heard the rollers take off there it's starting to bring that our sheet in and it's pushing it out okay so there goes it says it sent one page standard and there we are on that so that is the basic essentials for sending a garden-variety fax and you can load this with several pages too you want to make sure they're loose when you send them as well and it'll actually go and just feed through each page but you want to make sure that this is aligned properly so anyhow one thing I want to talk

to you about is another way to send a fax you can actually send a fax online you can send it via your computer if you're in a remote spot or if you're actually at a place where it doesn't have a landline that may make sense we've actually got a link if you look in this video in the description there there's actually a link to click through and it will explain more of that and might be a real viable option for you if you're looking for something otherwise other than having this this big machine if this will work

in a pinch but it may not be ideal especially if you're on the road or you're in places where you're not going to have that landline so anyhow I really appreciate you taking a look at this video if you don't mind please subscribe we've got other videos coming you take care and have a great time with your faxing