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Interesting. Good to know. I have a pretty basic personal scanner and it
provides that ability. I didn't realize that so many didn't.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Peter R. Fletcher" <pfletch(at)fletchers(hyphen)uk.com> wrote in message
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>I am afraid that my experience with a number of "personal" scanners
> made by various manufacturers is that their "native" software
> _doesn't_ usually allow/facilitate sending multiple scanned pages as a
> single fax (or at least not using a fax printer driver as basic as the
> one supplied by MS). More expensive "business" scanners may come with
> more capable sotware.
>
> You can scan to graphics files and create your final fax by including
> all the images in a document in your chosen word processing
> application, though this does not always work perfectly. I have
> written, for my own use, a .NET application which interfaces with
> Canon's scanner manager and does what the OP wants - it might well
> adapt to other scanners' managers, and I can give him access to it if
> he is interested.
>
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:20:59 -0500, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
> <russval@mvps.org> wrote:
>
>>The question should be directed to the manufacturer of your scanner. They
>>will need to tell you how to scan multiple pages into a single document.
>>Most scanners will let you do that. After that, all you have to do is
>>print
>>that document to the fax printer.
>
>
> Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the
> exchange.
> Peter R. Fletcher
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