This page provides information to help you understand 
how easy it is to fax data previously converted to faxes 
using the NetCFax printer

All you need to do on a fax client is to click the "Create Fax" button.

This causes the initial fax creation as shown above is displayed.  Any one of the three radio button above the list box may be enabled, depending on the default settings you have made for this.  If you want to send a cover page with some of these previously printed documents, select the left hand radio button, otherwise select the center radio button.  Many of the buttons at the bottom are enabled by selecting these, to let you select the data you want to send as this fax.

TO select a fax that was created previously by the printer driver, just click the "Select Fax" button, and a standard Windows file selection dialog will be displayed, as shown below :

As you can see, when this opens, it already lists the faxes available in your \printerfiles folder, and will always do so, even if you happen to have changed the location of this folder in your NetCFax configuration.  (NB - You can ONLY select one file at a time in this window, you cannot select several at one time).

We assume you took advantage of the option we provide to give these a meaningful name when you saved these files, so you can identify them later ?

Select any one of the files you have saved previously, and click "Open" and the dialog will disappear, and the original fax window will have had that file added to the list box for you, as shown below :

You can of course repeat this process as often as you wish, adding more faxable data to the list until you have all the data you want to be sent in this fax. 

If you also have some standard ASCII text files that you want to send with this fax, you can use the "Select File" button to select these as well.  This will display a similar file open dialog, but for your added convenience it will always open displaying the folder it last used.

At any time, you can select any file in the list, and use the "View Document" button to view that fax using the default fax viewer.  You can also change the order of the documents in the list box, which will of course re-order them in the fax that is finally created.

Once you are satisfied that you have all of the required fax data in your list box, and they are in the correct order, click the "Next" button, which will bring up the "Fax creation page 2" window on top of this window.  It's OK, you can always come back to this window from the second window if you need to do so.

Above we have a completely "Assembled" fax that contains two previously printed fax files and an additional text file (smtp commands.txt).

When we click "Next" the first thing that has to happen is is that NetCFax needs to combine all these files together, usually as a single, multi page fax that is ready to be sent out.  Information on this is displayed in the prompt bar immediately above the buttons at the bottom.  Once this task is completed the window below is displayed :

If you check back at our first window, you will notice that we decided to send a fax that does not include any cover page, which is of course why most of the fields on this window are disabled in this example. In fact, the caption bar on the window also tells you "Files Only (No Cover page)" is what was selected in the previous window.

If we noticed that we had made an error, and we decide that we really want to send a cover page as well, it is very simple to change this.  Just click the "<<-Files Selection" button, and you will be returned to the previous window, and you can then change the radio button selected and then press "Next" again.

As you can see in the illustration above, at the top right is a useful "total pages" indicator, which tells you exactly how large this fax is going to be.  PLEASE REMEMBER that for most faxes, a low resolution page takes approximately 30 seconds per page to send, and a high resolution page takes nearer 45 seconds per page to be sent.

Just enter the recipient's fax # and any other cover page information you want, and then click the "Send Fax" button.  The status field at the bottom will tell you that NetCFax is ending the fax to the fax server, and then, if you have it set to do, it will confirm that the server received it successfully, and all the fax creation windows you have just used will be closed automatically.

The From (senders) details at the bottom are normally prefilled for you by NetCFax, which takes this information from your personal address book.  If you haven't found this useful feature yet, just CLICK HERE to have a look at the Address Book and Personal Details information page, which tells you how you can do this quickly and easily. 

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