Fax Transmission and Reception Over the Internet

You can send and receive faxes over your LAN and the Internet.

Illustration of fax transmission and reception over the Internet

E-mail Transmission

This machine converts scanned document images to e-mail format, and transmits and receives this data over the Internet.

To send a document, specify an e-mail address instead of dialing the destination telephone number (Internet Fax and E-Mail Transmission).
This machine can receive e-mail messages via Internet Fax or from computers (Internet Fax Reception and Mail to Print).
Internet Fax compatible machines and computers that have e-mail addresses can receive e-mail messages via Internet Fax.

IP-Fax

The IP-Fax function sends or receives documents between two facsimiles directly via a TCP/IP network.

To send a document, specify an IP address or host name instead of a fax number (IP-Fax Transmission).
This machine can receive documents sent via Internet Fax (IP-Fax Reception).
Using a VoIP gateway, this machine can send to G3 facsimiles connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN).

For details about settings, see "Network Settings Required to Use Internet Fax", Network & System General Settings.
For details about how to transmit and receive documents over the Internet, see "Transmission" and "Reception", Facsimile Reference.