Minolta Scanner Mode user manual Internet Faxing

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Overview

2.5Internet Faxing

As opposed to a normal fax, which transmits through telephone lines, Internet fax sends and receives fax images through the Internet. Internet fax uses the Internet electronic mail (e-mail) setup to send and receive fax images. Image data scanned at an Internet fax terminal is attached to an e-mail message as a TIFF-F file, then sent to the recipient's Internet fax terminal. The file attached to the received e- mail message is printed by the Internet fax terminal on the receiving end.

In addition, since e-mail is used, the fax can be sent to an individual e- mail address, not just an Internet fax terminal. In this case, the fax image arrives at the receiving end as an attachment to an e-mail message received with the usual mail client software.

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