Muratec M880, M840 SmartPort fax/computer connectivity, SmartPort Requirements for Your Computer

SmartPort

SmartPort: fax/computer connectivity

Thanks to its built-in SmartPort feature, your fax machine isn’t only a fax machine ---- it also can be an image scanner and printer for your computer!

SmartPort Requirements for Your Computer

For you to use your fax machine’s SmartPort feature with your computer, your computer must meet three simple tests:

•It has a properly installed fax modem, either internal or external.

•It has properly installed fax software.

•Its fax software can perform manual receive (for scanning) and manual transmit (for printing) operations. (You may wish to consult that software’s instructions.)

Important: It doesn’t matter whether your computer is IBM ® PC or Macintosh® compatible, or which of those two platforms’ various operating systems it runs, so long as it meets these three conditions.

An important note about compatibility

While SmartPort works with a variety of fax modes and fax software packages, it doesn’t work with every fax modem and/or with every fax software package.

If you experience trouble, try the following (in this order):

•Please confirm that you are following the directions on the next page. (Sometimes, one missed step, or one step out of order, makes all the difference.) Give it several more tries, strictly following our instructions.

•If you still have trouble, please contact the company that made your fax modem.

•If the advice you get from your fax modem’s maker doesn’t help you, please contact your fax software package’s maker.

•If the advice from your fax software package’s maker doesn’t help you, then, unfortunately, SmartPort won’t work with your computer setup.

A Preview of the Plug-in

We’ll give you detailed hook-up steps in a moment, but first, here’s a preview…

If you’re using an external fax modem, you’ll do it this way:

If you’re using an internal fax modem, you’ll do it this way:

Or, if using a laptop computer with an internal fax modem, you’ll do it this way:

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