Can you set up a fax machine with just one phone line? How does it work?

Answer 1

You can do this a couple of different ways. If you have an answering machine, I'm afraid you're out of luck, unless you sign up for your local telco's 'distinctive ring' feature. Distinctive ring adds a 2nd phone number to your one line phone, allowing the household to know, by the distinctive way it rings, who the call is for. If you use this, you can instruct your fax machine to only answer calls on THAT number. Otherwise, you can instruct the fax to delay answering for, say, 5 rings. That will give you time to answer the phone before the fax picks up.

Polly

Answer 2

Yes you can - you just cant use the fax while youre on the phone or vice versa. You can only use one at a time. When people send faxes to you you will need to be there to manually accept the fax.

Answer 3

Yes you can....Take a phone line out of the phone that you use and plug into the fax---you have to make sure you are not recieving any phone calls or the fax will not go through

Answer 4

yes it works, get a machine with a manual setting and then when you answer the phone you can switch to fax to receive and when you are out the fax would pick up auto.

Answer 5

When the voice line rings and you pick it up, the fax tone is heard. Then you dial 23 and hang up and the fax picks up. I had a one line for a year or so.

Answer 6

yes - it can be used as a phone and a fax

Answer 7

why make it complicated?? Just put in another line, see how simple???