Muratec F-160 Quick introduction to fax, What’s a fax document?, What’s a fax number?

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A quick introduction to fax

What’s a fax document?

A fax document is anything a fax user wants to fax to someone else. It can be one or more pages, and it can be text, a drawing or even a copy of a photograph.

What’s a fax number?

Because your fax operates on standard phone lines, a fax number is just a regular phone number. And because your fax is also a high-quality, full-featured telephone, your fax number can be your regular phone number.

What are resolution and greyscale?

Just as cars are measured by engine size, fax machines are measured by resolution and greyscale.

Resolution refers to the sharpness of a fax transmission. There are three levels of resolution:

•Normal (8 dots/mm horizontal ⋅ 3.85 lines/mm vertical)

•Fine (8 dots/mm ⋅ 7.7 lines/mm)

•Superfine (16 dots/mm ⋅ 15.4 lines/mm).

Greyscale levels, or shades of grey — refers to the many shades of grey your fax machine sees on a document it’s sending. It’s likely most of your fax documents will be dark text on white paper. However, when you want to send photographs and other shaded items, you can set your fax machine to transmit in 256-level greyscale.

Why not always set your fax machine for superfine, or for greyscale?

Setting your fax machine for superfine resolution and greyscale mode makes your machine send more information, making transmissions last longer and driving up your phone bills on long-distance calls. You’ll find that we’ve made it easy for you to set your fax machine for the most efficient and truest transmission for the types of documents you send.

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