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Fax Transmission and Reception Over the Internet

You can send and receive faxes over your LAN and the Internet.

Illustration of Fax Transmission and Reception Over the Internet

Internet Fax

This machine converts scanned document images to e-mail format, and transmits and receives this data over the Internet.

  • To send a document, specify an e-mail address instead of dialing the destination telephone number (Internet Fax Transmission).

  • This machine can receive e-mail messages via Internet Fax or from computers (Internet Fax Reception).

  • Internet Fax compatible machines and computers that have e-mail addresses can receive e-mail messages via Internet Fax.

IP-Fax

The IP-Fax function sends or receives documents between two facsimiles directly via a TCP/IP network.

  • To send a document, specify an IP address or host name instead of a fax number (IP-Fax Transmission).

  • This machine can receive documents sent via Internet Fax (IP-Fax Reception).

  • Using a VoIP gateway, this machine can send to G3 facsimiles connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN).

Reference

  • For details about settings, see “Network Settings Required to Use Internet Fax”, Network and System Settings Guide.

  • For details about how to transmit and receive documents over the Internet, see “Transmission” and “Reception”, Facsimile Reference.