Faxing using a Multifunction printer/scanner/fax

I have a Brother MFC 6800.

I know of all the usb issues and so i am using Bonjour on the Win XP side.

It prints perfectly, but i can get it to fax.

Has anyone been able to fax using Bonjour???
I can fax on the mac side by simply pressing print, then choosing fax!

But i cant exactly do that on the windows side. Need to fax documents within a program called Quickbooks. The best i've been able to do is email an invoice with QB to myself. Open it using Mail, then just fax on the mac side. But thats very anoying.

Any ideas????

 

You can do it, almost automatically using shared folders and folder actions with a script designed to fax. I have written a script and tested it with a text file from windows. Basically I save the text file to a shared folder in Windows (the actual folder is on the OS X side). The name of the file is the phone number to fax to. Attached to this folder is a script that sends the file to the fax daemon (which is actually a printer).I have not used anything other that text, so you may have to do some testing. I can provide further details and post the script if you wish.

 

Fax from XP script

Here is the script, the file to be faxed must be placed along a path without spaces, otherwise it will fail. On MBP, the priner queue is External_Modem. On other systems it may be named differently. Again this has been tested only with text files. Use at your own risk. Comments welcome.


--Begin Script
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
tell application "Finder"
try
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in these_items
set f to item i of these_items
--Hide the extension
set extension hidden of f to true
set p to POSIX path of f
set phn to displayed name of f
--que name is External_Modem on MBP
set cmd to "lp -d External_Modem -o phone=" & phn & " " & p
do shell script cmd
end repeat
end try
end tell
end adding folder items to