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Thank you for all the lively discourse! I'm pretty well convinced I don't need a fax after all! I don't use it often enough, and hardly ever need to recieve a fax. Plus, I already have a pretty good scanner. Besides, if someone HAS to send me a fax, I can give them the fax # of the local Office Depot and they can fax it there! Then I can pick it up at my own convenience for pretty cheap. I think I will stick to email/"printing to fax" mentioned above.

Now if I could only get someone to respond to my "Stickies" post...

Thanks again!
~Laura

Oh, I forgot to mention that for those who insist on faxing me, I use efax for incoming faxes. The account is free unless you want to send, and for that I tell people I don't have outgoing fax capability, but I can email them the document!

Another vote for a free eFax account. I think you can only get 3 faxes/mo at most on the free ones, but it sounds like that would do it for you.

I don't know if there is a limit, but in August I received 7 faxes. I'm on the east coast and the free fax number is a California number, so that helps to encourage people to use email.

I use efax (free) for my personal fax "receive", and our company uses efax ($$$) for our business "receive". Being able to forward faxes to multiple recipients within the office simultaneously saves effort and reduces the possibility that someone won't get a fax for a few days because it sat in their snail mail folder. I personally don't have a great aversion to faxes - but with the influx of cheap AIO's, I think pdf's are probably going to eventually take over the "market".

As for the OP's question, I have a Canon MP750 that I just purchased that I couldn't be happier with. It has an ADF and does two-sided printing/copying. One draw to the model I purchased was the multiple ink wells. I had an Epson inkjet that had a black and a multicolor cartridge - if the yellow ink ran out, the printer would not allow you to print (not even a black-only document!!), and you had to trash the entire cartridge - even if the other colors were still full. At $30+ a pop, it got old quick. The MP750 (and several other Canon models) has three color carts and two black carts, and all are less than $11 each. I think they're phasing out the MP750 for the MP780 & MP760, so you might be able to find a deal on it - I got mine for $99.99 at Outpost.

-Joe

Do the scanning drivers work OK? Do you have it set up for wireless print sharing on a home network? I'd like to get a Canon MP7xx model, but reports are that wireless network support is iffy.

I ask about the scanner because I have an HP1200 AIO, which works great with my PC, but I can't get my Mac to even recognize that there's a scanner attached (printing from Mac is OK).

Any help/suggestions appreciated. Thanks!