Sending faxes with FaxNow!

Once installed, FaxNow! enables users to send faxes from any Windows application, simply by printing to the FaxNow! print driver (configured during installation), the FaxNow! SendFax dialog appears over of your active application...

Search ahead
A new feature of FaxNow! 5, "Search Ahead" searches through your default PhoneBook as you enter the addressing details of your intended recipient. You can search ahead on any field in the Destination dialog. If FaxNow! locates a matching PhoneBook record while you're typing, it populates the remaining destination fields with relevant address information.

Search PhoneBooks
You can search for records in PhoneBooks using the Find button. Find enables you to select a single record, group(s) or an entire phonebook to fax to. You can also search and retrieve records from Microsoft Outlook or WinFax PRO PhoneBooks.

Send method
With FaxNow! 5, you can send your fax via the internet. The send method can also be selected as "preferred" method in a recipients PhoneBook record.

You can also send your fax(es) as email. If you select this method, FaxNow! converts your fax(es) into "portable" ViewNow! files that can be viewed by an email user without the need for a fax viewer installed.

Save Copy To:
Use this option to save a copy of your sent fax to a specified FaxNow! folder. Ideal for managing your faxes. This selection can also be defined within a PhoneBook record by default.

Any faxes you send to a PhoneBook record that has a "Save Copy To" folder defined, will automatically save after sending even if the fax was sent as a "broadcast" to multiple receipients.

Bill To:
Enter a billing or accounting code for your fax or fax broadcast. The billing information you enter is automatically assigned to the fax and can be used to analyse costs or useage using the FaxNow! Activity Reporter module. This field can also be defined within a PhoneBook record.

Recipient
This tab displays a list of the receipients that your fax is addressed to.

Recipients can be included from FaxNow! PhoneBooks, Outlook or WinFax address lists, or just entered in the destination fields manually.

CoverPage
Select the coverpage required for your fax from this tab. The CoverPage tab displays all the Global or Private CoverPages that are available to you.

CoverPages can be created easily using the FaxNow! CoverPage Generator.

Sending Faxes from E-mail
FaxNow! supports sending and receiving faxes from all of the most popular email systems including:

Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Mail
Lotus Notes
Lotus cc:Mail
Novell GroupWise
MAPI compliant email systems

With the FaxNow! Mail Gateway (Included within FaxNow!), you can not only send faxes from your email client, you can also include file attachments like Microsoft Word, Excel etc. FaxNow! automatically renders attached files into fax format before placing the fax job in the FaxNow! queue. Multiple attachments of different types can be included, but if you include an attachment that FaxNow! cannot convert, your email is returned with an explaination of the file that cannot be rendered. Incoming faxes can be routed directly to email users without any manual intervention. Faxes can be routed via email in either Tiff, FaxNow! IFX or ViewNow! file format. If you select ViewNow! format, email users do not need any fax viewer installed on their desktop to view the incoming fax.

E-mail from FaxNow! ??
Yes!, FaxNow! 5 includes the ability to send your fax directly to an email address(es). By selecting "Email" in the send method (described earlier on this page), FaxNow! will send your fax directly to the recipient by email. The fax itself is compressed and "wrapped" in a self viewing file called a ViewNow! file. This means that the recipient can just double click and view the file in email, without the need to install a fax viewer.

Sending Faxes on Thin Clients

FaxNow! client includes support for ICA technology (Citrix Metaframe) and RDP (Microsoft Terminal Server). Faxing from Windows applications is identical to faxing under standard Windows configuration, but with the following benefits:

Remote users can send faxes "on the road" quicker and easier
Users can send and receive faxes quicker with ICA or RDP
Users can connect to their network using a CE device and fax from
palmtops easily and quickly
Users can save money by faxing via ICA or RDP.

Sending Faxes from your scanner
FaxNow! 5 includes support for scanners. This means that you can send paper based documents using your Twain compatible scanner at your PC. In addition, FaxNow! supports the Network ScanJet 5 and Digital Sender from Hewlett Packard that enables users on a network to send paper documents directly from the Digital Sender control panel into the FaxNow! queue.

FaxNow! integration with other applications
FaxNow! 5 can be integrated seamlessly within applications such as contact managers, accounts packages or other desktop applications using the FaxNow! API, or file based fax handling.
FaxNow! already works with many applications including Maximizer and Filemaker PRO that makes faxing a single click process. The FaxNow! API provides seamless integration to both fax send and PhoneBook functions.