"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 8/21/2014 2:46 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> Oh yes! We tried to refinance our house three years ago. Since my
>> husband was in another state, we had to do every piece of paperwork
>> separately. The woman at the bank kept telling me to fax things to
>> him. Although the printer I had at the time could be used as a fax
>> machine, it wasn't hooked up to do so. So I had to keep driving to Pony
>> Express and paying a pretty penny each time. Once, he managed to loose
>> some 20 or so pages and I had to do it all over again. It was very time
>> consuming and frustrating. And then we couldn't refinance because the
>> VA hadn't sent my husband some paperwork that he needed.
>>
>> So imagine my surprise when the following year, a guy from the bank told
>> me that all I had to do was scan things! Part of the problem with the
>> old printer was that it stopped doing PDF files. It had been doing them
>> fine ever since I got it until the day that it wouldn't work. I was
>> trying to print off our insurance cards. I can't remember what the
>> problem was now but some sort of known problem and I had to download a
>> patch. Then all of a sudden instead of doing PDF files, it had to
>> convert them to JPEGs. That was my 2nd or perhaps 3rd Lexmark printer.
>> An emergency purchase. My old one broke and I had to get a new one
>> right away but didn't have much money. Mistake!
>>
>> My current one is HP and it is wireless. I did research for months
>> before I got it. No problems. I also like that I can scan checks to
>> make deposits at my bank.
>
> I hated my fax machine. Mostly I got junk faxes and the printing was just
> awful. My friend gave me the machine and you could see the previous faxes
> on the carbon film roll. These were legal documents too. Some pretty juicy
> stuff on it. Luckily, I'm not interested in the lives of others.
>
> Anyway, those days are gone - thank you Jesus!

I remember when we got a fax machine at work. It was a serious problem
child, acting up more often than not and for some reason, wasting lots of
paper. My boss made it a rule than only certain people could touch it. I
was not one of them. The ones who could use it used to curse at it. Then
one day people were out sick and there was nobody who had been trained to
use it. My boss didn't even know how to use it. So he asked me to do it.
I couldn't figure it out and asked a friend to help and between the two of
us, we could not get it. I think he finally just drove to Kinkos or
something.

I did actually have an all in one that was hooked up with the fax machine
when I lived in CA. It was a breeze to use. I didn't even have to read the
instructions.