I just bought an OBi200. How do you hook up a Canon fax all-in-one machine with my ATT DECT phone/answering machine? I can't seem to receive faxes
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You can also buy splitter like this Uxcell a13052100ux0686 RJ11 Male Line to Double RJ11 Female Jack Telephone Filter/Splitter and one cable goes to phone other goes to fax.
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Same way you used to receive faxes before. I would think you plug the fax machine in between the obi and the phone. You should specify who is providing your phone/voip service, then you can get clearer help.
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With most fax machines you connect the Obi device to the line jack of the fax machine and then the phone to the phone jack of the fax machine.
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the problem is when sending a fax from 1 machine the other machine will pick it up and receive the fax instead of the intended recipient. does anyone know if there is perhaps some type of an adapter that would prevent the 2 fax machines from recognizing the other machines "handshake"?
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The setup for this is a bit complicated to understand, but possible. This unit's user manual is poorly written if you don't understand the terms and about the different rings and stuff. I had to find a Brother fax setup manual online to figure out these different ringing functions. The manufacturer puts great stock in connecting your phone to the output jack on the AIO, but it just complicates things, IMHO. By the way, I have the 780 but I believe the fax setup is the same for both units. I would hook up the phone and fax using a splitter if they use the same wall jack or just plug both into different wall jacks as the case may be. If you want to be able to receive faxes while away and not have to babysit the RX you can do so. One annoyance I feel this machine has is that it will not receive a fax if the Fax button is not pressed. It defaults to Copy on startup and you need to change this setting to Fax. If you don't it will do everything it needs to do when a fax comes in. Answer the call, beep, do its bump and grind and then botch the RX and print out a failure report. I asked tech support if I could set the default mode to Fax and they told me No, and that Canon wasn't interested in fixing this. My question is why have the machine do everything but receive the fax? Why have it go through all that just to botch it? They could give me no answer. OK, back to the original question. If you want to use the phone line for both voice and occasional fax and not have to be there to RX you can do so. Set your RX SETTINGS to FAX/TEL AUTO SW, RING START TIME to 9SEC, F/T SWITCH ACTION to DISCONNECT, RING COUNT to 8X. Note that the ring count is not set in stone. This is the setting that lets you decide how many rings will occur on your phone before the fax machine wakes up and answers the call. The default is two rings, which is why your machine is intruding in on your voice calls. For me 8 rings was long enough to get to the phone and answer the (voice) call, but this is your decision.
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I haven't seen a fax machine that could not receive a fax. I think, for the price, this machine is a good buy. What you could do is turn it off when you didn't need to use it. I have had a fax for years and I can't think of a time that I received a fax that I didn't know was coming. When setting up you could leave the fax and telephone number sections blank. That should work as well.
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Actually, your fax machine has 2 rj11 jacks, one for your house/apt wall jack and the other for a telephone. Assuming your DSL service provides telephone service as well, you can plug the 2wire dsl modem to the wall, then plug the GE Duplex to the 2wire dsl modem, and then plug your printer/faxmachine "to the wall" jack to one of the 2 jacks on it. You should have one more free jack on the GE Duplex splitter, since you can use the printer/faxmachine's "to the telephone" jack for your phone if you need to...Good Luck !
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Fax works fine, it will give you the option to print or not. also works with distinctive ring tone if you have the machine connected to one phone line. Wi-fi work great as well. Excellent value for the price.
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Shortly after I posted my reply, I found that I was better off in Fax Priority mode, which is how the printer is currently set. I went into the RX settings and I set the incoming ring to 30, which is the maximum. I still have the DEFAULT ACTION set to disconnect, MANUAL AUTO SWITCH is set to OFF. With these settings the fax does not pick up. The only thing I don't like is the fax does not automatically pick up. If I am receiving a fax, I have to press the start button on the fax machine if I hear a fax tone. It's not the best setup in the world, but as I got the machine on sale for $130.00 USD, I guess I really can't complain. Try what I mentioned and see if that works for you. Shortly after I posted my reply, I found that I was better off in Fax Priority mode, which is how the printer is currently set. I went into the RX settings and I set the incoming ring to 30, which is the maximum. I still have the DEFAULT ACTION set to disconnect, MANUAL AUTO SWITCH is set to OFF. With these settings the fax does not pick up. The only thing I don't like is the fax does not automatically pick up. If I am receiving a fax, I have to press the start button on the fax machine if I hear a fax tone. It's not the best setup in the world, but as I got the machine on sale for $130.00... » Read More Shortly after I posted my reply, I found that I was better off in Fax Priority mode, which is how the printer is currently set. I went into the RX settings and I set the incoming ring to 30, which is the maximum. I still have the DEFAULT ACTION set to disconnect, MANUAL AUTO SWITCH is set to OFF. With these settings the fax does not pick up. The only thing I don't like is the fax does not automatically pick up. If I am receiving a fax, I have to press the start button on the fax machine if I hear a fax tone. It's not the best setup in the world, but as I got the machine on sale for $130.00 USD, I guess I really can't complain. Try what I mentioned and see if that works for you. « Show Less
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Personally I have not tried to use a fax machine with it, but I do not see any problem of hooking up to it, because fax dials the same way as dialer and sends messages. It should be able also to receive faxes.
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it's all about the connecting cables. You need a connector that will only connect the line you want to use. I use it to connect my fax when I need it.
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Could you be more specific with the question, I understand that you and sip trunks are connecting a fax on FXS port if so if it works
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My phone - land line- comes through straight talk wireless. No connection to telephone lines. Does anyone know if this printer will send faxes?
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This was taken from one of it's reviews....Fax and voice calls on a single line. This feature saves the expense of separate phone lines for fax and voice calls. A built-in interface even lets you connect an external answering machine.
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I don't get what u r doing. I will pick up if u r not home, but what if u pick the phone up and hear a fax tone, Can u send a code on the keypad to have the fax pick up while u r in another room?Can u use an answerphone to get voice messages?I used Norton Fax software. It was nice because it did Fax and Voice on the same line and put everything on your hard drive. I hoped hardware could do this without the PC.Is there any hope?
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I have everything on the phone line. I have a 3-way splitter with the phone, fax/printer/2620 and the computer. It is on Cableone, and works great.
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I'm looking at the printer right now, and no, It does not have a phone plugin for faxing right from the printer. however, most windows computers with modems allow you to send a fax anyway. (windows xp, 7, 8 im sure)You simply scan the document in and send it fax with a PC. Whenever you go to print a document in windows, the drop-down where you select what printer to print from also has a "fax" option. Selecting that and printing will open up a fax wizard.
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I have used my fax with Ooma. I use the same line for voice and my fax and just turn the fax on when using it.
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I do not know if this helps. I have not used the fax. I see that I have a unimodem service provider Not sure if this helps but you can look under Phone and Modem in your control panel