How can I receive a fax on my regular telephone line?

Question

The sender does not have a computer so I need to be able to receive the fax on my fax machine using my regular telephone line. The Telephone Company will set me up with a special ring that activates my fax; but they will charge $5 per month.

Answer 1

as long as you have a fax mashine hooked up then yes. some faxmashines you have an option to switch from just receiving a fax to just phone service. but not all have that.

Answer 2

I don't have neither a separate phone line, nor special equipment.  You sign up with a free fax service.  You get a fax # and when the fax gets sent to it, they email it to you.  I have a service called efax.  I signed up for their free trial (with a non-local number) and don't pay anything for it.  I am limited to how many faxed I receive  for free per month - but I don't get that many.  I also can not fax out... but that's  not a problem since I scan what ever I want to fax, the printer's software will print to fax, window's software will send it out - all i do is connect the phone line when I'm ready to send... pretty easy... and free.

Answer 3

If your computer has a tapi voice fax modem that supports caller id (they sell for about $30 for xp desktops if you don't have one already) you can use a program I wrote called CallClerk to answer all calls from a spefic number (you need caller id too) as a fax call but have all other calls treated as regular calls.  For more info see www.callclerk.com