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Subject:Re: Fax Machines From:Gladys_We -at- SFU -dot- CA Date:Fri, 18 Jun 1993 12:22:53 -0700
>If you expect to receive fax messages from outside the USA,
>get a thermal paper fax machine. They print legal size and
>A4 size on sheets cut to size, and I'm not sure most plain
>paper fax machines ajust themselves automatically or adjust
>their reduction at all.
Plain paper fax machines extend the image onto the next page. The bottom of
the legal sized printout that's sent gets printed on the next letter-sized
page, so you get two pages for one. But I still like the plain paper faxes
better--you can highlight them, and they won't go black!