Apple USB fax modem

As for the "domestic user" mentioned in the article You quote:

I bought my Zoom from amazon.de for about € 30 and it works perfectly in Germany...

Best,

Rabendoktor

Also - I was using Smile's Page Sender software to send and receive faxes. While I already have a working ZOOM modem, cannot find Lion compatible software with similar functionality. Anyone?

That's my real gripe, I guess. I just threw out an old USB modem 'cause I thought I wouldn't need it anymore. How much effort would it have been to include a driver for this? The "Print & Scan" Pref Pane still allows for fax usage, they updated that.

Time to head for the flea market, I guess...

Not replying to anybody here (software decrees I have to aim this at somebody - sorry Rabendoktor 😉)

I am just totally amazed that companies are still communicating by fax. I honestly thought it was as dead as the telegraph.

I have learned something today. 🙂

Same problem here 😟. But fixed it 🙂 I had an old 56k v.92/v.44 modem I use to use with windows and comes with window drivers. For fun I tried and it worked!! no problem just had to delete the apple modem and added USB ACF Modem in print and scan preferences (that's what Lion was telling me what I plugged in). Tried and works better than Apple modem ( I am useing Magic Jack as phone line and with apple modem it was hit and miss and now with a windows base modem is 100% go figure??). The Modem is from Best Data, got it from best buy last year.

tonefox wrote:

I am just totally amazed that companies are still communicating by fax. I honestly thought it was as dead as the telegraph.

Last month I had to send a request to a bank by fax. I suppose I could have sent it by paper mail, but they wouldn't accept the request by e-mail or online.

Good grief. I would be tempted to seek a post-20th (19.5?) century bank....

The bank seems to be fairly modern. In fact, if it has a physical branch office I don't know about it. I imagine it was the specialized nature of my request that caused them to want it by fax or mail. The point it, there is still a role for faxing in today's world.

That is the point, to be sure. It's been my experience that (e.g.) many heath-care-oriented services, for confidentiality reasons, don't do e-mail. Also, there are, apparently, occasions where a signature sent by fax is accepted as equivalent to an original signature, not so for scanned-and-e-mailed.

And some of us are just old, um, fuddy-duddies (the site auto-censor didn't like what I put the first time😝). What're you gonna do?

faxSTF was supported for Snow Leopard, it's unclear from what I've found whether a Lion version is in the works and if so will it provide Apple USB Modem support (no reason it couldn't). It is/was a great product, that offered much more sophisticated fax management than MacOS X by itself. Might be worth keeping an eye out for, if you need fax support on your Lion-Mac.

Turns out faxSTF was discontinued. Too bad.

Jeff Mark wrote:

heath-care-oriented services, for confidentiality reasons, don't do e-mail. Also, there are, apparently, occasions where a signature sent by fax is accepted as equivalent to an original signature, not so for scanned-and-e-mailed.

Exactly. And for your OWN security you should use fax or encrypted files via email to send personal information such as social security numbers. Until email is as easy to use as faxing for secure transfer of confidential documents, I'm affraid faxes are here to stay. (To stay on topic...) I just wish Apple realized that!

This thread, in Snow Leopard Discussions, has some useful information regarding Lion-compatible modems:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread/3164614?answerId=15813834022#15813834022

Hi,

We have gotten rid of all of our FAX machines, and went with eFax. It saves money by not needing all of those analog phone lines for FAXing, all 50 of them.

Most places will accept email, and scanned copies of documents attached, but there are a few diehards out there that insist on a regular FAX, so we have eFax.

If you are a business, then you can afford eFax. I even have it at home, as I FAX several documents a month, which makes it reasonable to have. The cost of a phone line is more than my monthly eFax service bill. I could have used my primary phone line, but I didn't want to tie it up.

Now I don't even have a land line anymore - just cell, and broadband.

Cheers,

M.

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