- #CAN I FAX FROM MY MAC WITHOUT A PHONE LINE HOW TO#
- #CAN I FAX FROM MY MAC WITHOUT A PHONE LINE PRO#
Today, there are fax sending apps that let you send and receive faxes online on your Mac. I noticed several apps for the iPhone as well that will send outgoing faxes, but they all seem to require 3rd party intervention as well. The ability to send a fax from mac is an easy and quick solution for travelling professionals. So if privacy is of issue to you, youll need to find someone with a normal fax machine and line that would let you send a fax. I'm simply trying to keep my banking info confidential and NOT use some 3rd party to send the outgoing fax for me. Having said that, short of using the online service, I dont believe there is anyway of faxing out without a phone line. Without one (which is the only way fax systems work) all youll have access to are the online services.
#CAN I FAX FROM MY MAC WITHOUT A PHONE LINE PRO#
Is there some combination of hardware (my MacBook Pro and my jailbroken iPhone) and software that would allow me to dial out myself and send a fax from my Mac? I'm quite hesitant to use an online service to send the fax and it has ALL of my bank account numbers on the document and that seems risky to me (to put that information into someone else's hands). I'm trying to conduct some banking and my bank ONLY allows faxed signature. The problem that I have with that idea is one of security. If you don't have a landline phone, you won't be able to send a fax using your computer. Active phone line You'll need a phone line that you can connect to your fax modem. Dialpad's virtual fax feature lets you send and receive faxes online just like you would with a fax machine, but through a desktop app.
#CAN I FAX FROM MY MAC WITHOUT A PHONE LINE HOW TO#
Learn how to use an online fax service or built-in hardware to fax from your Mac with eFax. I know that I can use one of the MANY MANY online fax services to send an outgoing fax. USB fax modem You can buy a fax modem that plugs into one of your computer's USB ports online (e.g., Amazon or eBay) or in some tech stores. There's multiple ways to receive and send a fax from a Mac computer. If the document is already a file on your computer, congratulations you don’t have to scan anything. if you don’t have a scanner lying around, you may want to try scanning it with your smartphone.
Note that this is the only way to connect a modem to your Mac you can’t fax from a Mac using an iPhone as a tethered modem. I only have my iPhone as a means of "dialing out." First, you’ll need to scan the document you want to fax, just as if you were going to send that document over email. The advantage of using a modem is that there’s no need for an internet connection as it will plug into your analog landline phone line to send faxes rather than use your internet connection. I'd like to send a fax from my 15" Macbook Pro. I'm fairly new to the world of Mac (15+ years of PC frustration has made me a happy convert).