Faxing From Access

[DS]

Anyone know anything about faxing from Access?
Thanks
DS

 

[Jeff Conrad]

in message:

Anyone know anything about faxing from Access?

MVP Tony Toews has some thoughts here:

http://www.granite.ab.ca/accswfxp.htm

 

[Ken Snell [MVP]]

I do it from ACCESS 2002 in a runtime environment, by printing to the fax
printer driver.

 

[Arvin Meyer]

Anyone know anything about faxing from Access?

In addition to Jeff and Ken's suggestions, you can also automate faxing to
the level of an enterprise solution from Access. Depending upon your mail
server, you might also want to take a look at the following.

ACG Soft:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/attac-cg/

for solutions for creating PDF's which can be attached to a fax server

GFIFaxmaker:
http://www.gfi.com/faxmaker/

for solutions which integrate faxing and email

http://www.captaris.com/rightfax/

for solutions which integrate faxing and email with later versions of
Exchange only.

I use a combination of the first 2 solutions to automate sending dozens of
POs at a time from an Access database. My Access database creates PDFs, then
searches for the most economical way to send them (First, email, then FAX,
then snail mail) and prints them to the appropriate source. We do more than
60,000 POs a year from our Access 2002 database, a little more than half of
which are faxed.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads:
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access

 

[DS]

in message:




MVP Tony Toews has some thoughts here:

http://www.granite.ab.ca/accswfxp.htm

Thanks, I'll get to work on it!
DS

 

[DS]

I do it from ACCESS 2002 in a runtime environment, by printing to the fax
printer driver.

Thanks.
I'll give it a try.
DS

 

[DS]

In addition to Jeff and Ken's suggestions, you can also automate faxing to
the level of an enterprise solution from Access. Depending upon your mail
server, you might also want to take a look at the following.

ACG Soft:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/attac-cg/

for solutions for creating PDF's which can be attached to a fax server

GFIFaxmaker:
http://www.gfi.com/faxmaker/

for solutions which integrate faxing and email

http://www.captaris.com/rightfax/

for solutions which integrate faxing and email with later versions of
Exchange only.

I use a combination of the first 2 solutions to automate sending dozens of
POs at a time from an Access database. My Access database creates PDFs, then
searches for the most economical way to send them (First, email, then FAX,
then snail mail) and prints them to the appropriate source. We do more than
60,000 POs a year from our Access 2002 database, a little more than half of
which are faxed.

Thank you. A lot of information...all of which I will have to play
with...I'll let everyone know how it all works out.
DS

 

[Ken Snell [MVP]]

This can be done programmatically in ACCESS 2002 and 2003 by setting the
Application.Printer
object to the fax printer device. Then open the report and it'll print to
the fax driver.