Can I plug a fax machine into my home phone line or do I need a separate fax line to fax?

Question

Can I plug a fax machine into my home phone line or do I need a separate fax line to fax?

Answer 1

We have our fax machine plugged into our home line. If you get a lot of faxes you might consider getting a distinctive ring feature from your phone service provider, and if you have voice mail through your home phone you may run into some problems receiving faxes. We had problems receiving faxes because of the voice mail on our line, and got the distinctive ring feature, but then canceled both the ring and our voice mail, because our fax machine has a answering system with it. Make sure you read the operator's manual, it'll explain about the rings and voice mails. Good luck.

Answer 2

Your fax machine should have an jack for phone in and out to enable to you plug the phone line into the fax machine and plug a regular phone into the fax machine as well.  You can only phone or fax at one time but you don't need another line.