September 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
23h 55m
English
Content preview from Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
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Either way, you now get a status window that looks a lot like the one for a regular
printer (Figure 8-4).
Receiving a Fax
A Mac that’s been set up to answer calls does a very good impersonation of a fax ma-
chine. You don’t even have to be logged in to get faxes, although the Mac does have
to be turned on. In System PreferencesÆEnergy Saver, turn on “Wake when modem
detects a ring” to prevent your Mac from being asleep at the big moment.
When a fax comes in, the Mac answers it after the number of rings you’ve specified.
Then it treats the incoming fax image in the way you’ve specified in System Prefer-
ences—by sending it to your email program, printing it automatically, or just saving
it as a PDF file in a folder that you’ve specified.
Scanning
In theory, you should be able to use your old Windows scanner with your new Mac—if
it connects with USB, FireWire (IEEE 1394), or some other connection that physi-
cally fits into the Mac.
But in practice, scanning is often a sore spot for Mac OS X fans. Most current scan-
ner models (Epson, Canon, Agfa, Nikon, Microtek, Umax) work with Mac OS X, but
hundreds of older ones still don’t have Mac OS X drivers.
If your scanner model isn’t one of the lucky ones, pay a visit to www.hamrick.com
to download VueScan. It’s a $40 shareware program that makes dozens of scanners
work with Mac OS X, including:
• SCSI models including ...
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