How to Set Up a Fax Machine

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ron Chase with PahrumpAuctions.com, located in Pahrump, Nevada. This is my shop, come on in. This is a demonstration on how to set up a fax machine. After you get your fax machine out of the box you need to put your toner cartridge in the machine. This particular machine is a laser fax machine. You open this tray and the toner just slides in. This process is pretty much the same for any laser fax machine. After the toner or ink is installed, you need to plug in the power and the phone cords. On the back of the fax machine, you'll have a slot for the power cords and you'll usually have two slots for your phone lines. The one that says "line" is from the line from your wall, the one that says "ext" or "extension", is if you're setting up a phone off of the fax machine, it plugs into here. So, your basic power cord plugs in like so and, again, the one marked "line", I'm plugging in a phone cord and the other end plugs into the wall. If you wanted to put a phone on this particular fax machine, you'd plug it into the "extension." Once the machine has been plugged into the wall and the phone line is plugged in, the fax machine is ready to send faxes. You will also find, most fax machines, you can set cover pages, you can set your phone number, and you can set your ID, refer to the manufactures website, your owners manual, or when there's an LCD screen, you can usually use the menu button and just follow the prompts to entering your personal information. That's all there is to setting up your fax machine."