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Faxing with the Canon Pixma MX860?

I just bought this printer,mostly so I could network print with my tablet PC, but partly so I could fax directly from my Mac. My old Canon couldn't do it: I had to print the document, and then put it on the platen of the printer, and fax from there (kinda defeats the purpose, no?!). So when I read all the specs on the Apple Store website (http://store.apple.com/us/product/TV352LL/A) that included specs on Faxing, I figurered, why would they make all that fuss if it couldn't fax from the Mac? But it now appears that I'm back in the 20th century. I called Canon, and was told that I'd be able to fax directly from the (Vista) laptop, but not my Mac! How can this be true?!?! (I have a Mac V 10.5.7). My new Mac does not have a built-in modem. Why can't it use the one in the Canon? Does anybody have a work-around????? Thanks.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4)

Posted on Jun 2, 2009 12:45 PM

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Jun 2, 2009 4:55 PM in response to hillbilly_fairy

Checking the Canon web site, there is no fax driver for OS X for this model, so you are out of luck. In fact, looking at several other models of the MX series, there is no fax driver for Mac OS X. So it seems that Canon has once again shown its usual support for Mac owners.

With the machines that can fax from the OS X desktop, like my MF4680, when you connect the machine to the Mac and select to add a printer queue, you see two printer names - one of which has the word fax. To add this queue you need to install the fax driver, which is a separate driver to the printer driver.

PaHu

Jun 3, 2009 5:38 PM in response to hillbilly_fairy

The modem in the fax machine doesn't respond to the normal AT commands that drive most data modems. The way the fax driver works is that it sends the document as an image to the machine, but instead of printing the file, it converts it to the required encoding, such as MMR, and then passes it to the fax modem.

PaHu

Faxing with the Canon Pixma MX860?

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