Adding network fax printer

I have a machine on my network with a shared fax printer. I am trying to add that printer to my XP machine. My problem is when I try to add the printer it wants me to select a driver. No driver is offered for a fax printer. What do I do? TIA.

 

You will need to go to the website for the fax printer and download the drivers if XP doesn't have them.

 

What web site? The FAX drivers are already in XP, they just are not considered printer drivers for the purposes of adding a remote fax printer.

 

I'm sorry. If it is not installed already go into Add/Remove and open add/remove components. Install it from there. Then you should be able to use your printer on the network for faxing. To add a printer on the network go to Add Printer and add that to the network. Make it a network printer. You will have to be on the machine your printer is on. Just follow the prompts in add printer.

 

Thank you for the reply but I guess I am just dense today and apologize. When you say "if it is not installed" I don't know what "it" refers to. I think you are talking about the wrong machine. The local FAX printer ( "it? ") is installed and set up as shared printer on the machine with the modem (ME machine).

It is the machine with no modem (XP) on which I am trying to define a network printer (i.e. the shared printer on the ME machine) that is the problem. When I try to define a network printer, it asks for the driver. There is no driver offered for a FAX printer only real physical printers.

 

I don't use the builtin fax program. All of my computers are attached to a router and DSL. I don't have any modem hooked up to a dial up line. Your going to have to investigate your network. Look up Fax in help and support. Maybe that will get you pointed in the right direction. There is Fax Software for sale that might fit your needs. If this is a standalone fax machine there will be information that came with it. XP fax program is limited.

 

Thanks for the replies. Maybe someone else will weigh in that has done what I'm attempting.

 

It would help if you gave some device details. Make & model for instance. If you are talking about a physical device that does faxing and printing.

 

Sorry. I posed a question on the ME board about that side and once that started working came to here for the XP side. In the transition I stupidly forgot that you have no way of knowing what in the heck I'm talking about unless you read both parts.

Rather then make you jump to a different forum I'll repeat the details here:

I have installed MS Messenger FAX services on the other machine which has a modem. I then created a fax printer, on that machine, and set it for sharing, making it a network printer.

I then came to the XP machine, which can now see that FAX printer as a network printer, and tried to install it. Once I select that printer it asks me for a driver. However, the dirvers presented for selection are ONLY for real, physical printers. What I'm trying to find out is how I set up that network fax printer on XP. There must be a way to install a driver that will let XP use that network printer.

 

Toughie. Couple of things that may possibly help.

- try installing the thing as a generic/text only printer on your XP box. Might work.

- take a look Here and see if any of the suggestions or links help out at all.

 

Thanks but none of that helps. The crux of the problem is that the install printer process assumes a hardware printer. It seems only local printers can be software. In the case of a network fax, it is a network software printer.

Is what I'm trying to do that unique?

 

Not that unique certainly but maybe just too difficult for the printer folks.

At home (2 XP-pro boxes) we have one of the all-in-one lexmark things. Fax, print, scan, copy, do dishes. But only from the PC it's connected to. From the other, just a printer. And I haven't been able to get around it either. But I hadn't tried very hard so didn't know if it was a do-able thing these days.