Fax: Page down or page up?

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 04-09-2007 4:18pm #1

Probably going to get banned for abusing the after hours forum with this - but, i have to send a very important fax and there is no-one else left in the office to ask:

When you are putting your letter in the fax machine; does it go face up or face down? i.e. the printed bit of the letter

Rafloution · 04-09-2007 4:20pm

down

Ruu_Old · 04-09-2007 4:20pm

Nearly sure it is face down.

euph · 04-09-2007 4:20pm

there should be a little picture telling you how.

EG a blank page, with a corner folded, and lines on the fold. Face down.

I suppose a page with just lines, maybe a blank corner. Face up.

Any use?

Orlee · 04-09-2007 4:21pm

face down deffo - the receptionist should know!

¬_¬ · 04-09-2007 4:22pm

It goes face down 99% of the time - like yore ma.

RTFM

DublinDilbert · 04-09-2007 4:22pm

it totally depends on the fax machine... there is no way anyone could answer your question from the amount of detail you've given...

luckily theres usually a little picture molded into the plastic on the fax machine of a piece of paper with the edge folded over, with print on one side or the other.... :rolleyes:

patrickc · 04-09-2007 4:23pm

defo down also

LoLth · 04-09-2007 4:24pm

there's nearly always a little diagram of a page which shows a turned corner. If the corner has little lines in it then its face down, if the corner is white and the rest has lines then its face up.

99% of the time its face down though.

or, you could jsut print out whatever it is on both sides of a sheet (or photocopy it onto both sides of a new sheet) and then you're bound to get it right

(you'd have to do the same with the coversheet)

DarkJager · 04-09-2007 4:25pm

Face down...LIKE YORE MA!!!!!

Sorry couldn't resist it...

¬_¬ · 04-09-2007 4:26pm

DarkJager wrote:

Face down...LIKE YORE MA!!!!!

Sorry couldn't resist it...

zzZZZZzzzz
too slow

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 04-09-2007 4:26pm

perfect, thanks!

btw saw that picture on the fax, but just thought it was a design feature!

seamus · 04-09-2007 4:27pm

euph wrote:

there should be a little picture telling you how.

EG a blank page, with a corner folded, and lines on the fold. Face down.

I suppose a page with just lines, maybe a blank corner. Face up.

Any use?

^^ what he said.

There is almost always a little "icon" embedded in the paper feed tray that shows you what way the paper goes.

tallus · 04-09-2007 4:35pm

Just send the thing twice, one with the sheet facing upwards and one with the sheet facing downwards. The fax I use in work has to have the page face up.

Exit · 04-09-2007 5:09pm

I almost always had to ask someone this too, because I'd have forgotten by the next time I had to do it.

Random · 04-09-2007 6:28pm

tallus wrote:

Just send the thing twice, one with the sheet facing upwards and one with the sheet facing downwards. The fax I use in work has to have the page face up.

My thoughts exactly!

KdjaCL · 04-09-2007 6:50pm

3rd level institutions need to start with the basics.

kdjac

crosstownk · 04-09-2007 7:30pm

tallus wrote:

Just send the thing twice, one with the sheet facing upwards and one with the sheet facing downward

Failsafe method.

phog · 04-09-2007 8:53pm

A guy at work got pis**d off people calling to his office (he was next door to the fax and copier) asking which way to place the paper and he made a poster that read something like - if you can see it they won't.

90% + it's face down.

Capt'n Midnight · 04-09-2007 11:55pm

It depends on the fax machine.

small fax machines tend to be face down

larger floor standing multifunction machines that photocopy, print and fax tend to be face up

There should be an Icon to say which way it goes - like a rectangle a page with a corner turned down. which side are the lines on

faxing both ways will work regardless

Or use the copy button on the machine to copy the page and see for your self

Fax: Page down or page up?

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