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10.3: Built-in fax services don't create audit trails
Authored by: michaelj on Feb 06, '04 12:48:21PM
I found this information on the Apple Discussions board.
There is a log of all of your faxes and print jobs!
There is a UNIX application called "The Common UNIX Printing System' that gets installed with OS X. You can access the app via your browser at http://127.0.0.1:631/printers and you can see all of the print/fax jobs that have been attempted at http://127.0.0.1:631/jobs.
These web pages are pages that exist on your computer and are generated by the application, so net access is not relevant.
I haven't sent a fax on my computer so I can't verify that this keeps a record of faxes, but there is definitely a record of all print jobs there. I would love to hear from people who use the built in fax capability about this!

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10.3: Built-in fax services don't create audit trails
Authored by: dansroka on Feb 06, '04 12:56:34PM

Yes, that works. Quite cool actually, as you also have a log of the print jobs you've done.

I've had to do quite a bit of faxing recently, and I've found that the built-in fax works well with Image Capture and a scanner. I have Image Capture set up so that when I press the "scan now" button on my scanner, it scans the page and automatically opens it in Preview, from which it is easy to fax.

I also noticed that the Print Settings pulldown let you save commonly used fax numbers and cover letters.



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