Impact ColorFax User Guide
Tired of fighting with your fax machine?
Impact Color Fax™ is designed for users who need a simple but effective PC color faxing software solution. Send and receive faxes from the comfort of your home computer. Send any file on your computer as a fax, or use Impact Color Fax Lite with a scanner or multifunction printer to scan and fax.
Impact Color Fax Lite provides far superior color fax technology than its competitors and an alternative solution for VARS and OEMs. Impact Color Fax Lite is a PC based stand-alone fax software designed to run on Win2000/XP and Microsoft Vista. Impact Color Fax differentiates itself by offering features that are not currently available with other fax software, such as a simple familiar user interface, Multi-Port Color Faxing, Multi-Port Color Fax Broadcasting, and much more.
What would you like to do with the Impact ColorFax?
New in Version 8.0!
Added support for Windows Vista and 64-bit Windows Platforms
Option to use a Calling Card when faxing
Preview pane to display faxes without having to open the files
New look for Windows XP
Automatically check for a dialtone
Enhanced dialing features
New options for received faxes - Automatically open Impact ColorFax, Display a notification window, or automatically print every received fax
Sort faxes by Date, Time, Number of pages, etc.
New Fax/Dialup mode feature - switch Impact ColorFax to dialup mode to use your existing modem for an internet connection, switch to fax mode to send and receive faxes.
New, user friendly interface and expanded help system
Receiving color or black and white faxes
Sending color or black and white faxes
Integrated Drag and Drop PrintingTM technology for easy document conversion into faxable format. Simply Drag and Drop a MS Word or PDF file over Color Fax and it automatically converts the document to a color or black and white fax.
Annotate faxes (NOT AVAILABLE IN LITE VERSION)
Color Fax Broadcasting (NOT AVAILABLE IN LITE VERSION)
Cover Page Generator and Editor: Create your own custom cover page with logos. (NOT AVAILABLE IN LITE VERSION)
Viewer: display, zoom, and print color or black and white fax images.
Cut Image (NOT AVAILABLE IN LITE VERSION)
Split multi-page TIFF files (NOT AVAILABLE IN LITE VERSION)
Combine multi-page TIFF files (NOT AVAILABLE IN LITE VERSION)
Clean image to remove fax transmission and scanner noise (NOT AVAILABLE IN LITE VERSION)
Standard scanner (Twain) interface.
Export 6 different image file formats. (NOT AVAILABLE IN LITE VERSION)
Import 6 different image file formats.
Automated document conversion from any application by printing to the Impact Color Fax Printer.
Fax management through folders.
Fax queue management.
Phonebook with export and import.
Auto-printing of incoming faxes.
Auto forwarding of incoming faxes to a specified fax number
Auto-modem detection.
Auto-detects receiving fax machine's color capability and converts the color fax to black and white fax, if the receiving fax machine is not a color fax.
Runs minimized on the system tray, waiting for incoming faxes
Supports up to four modems (communication ports) and is compatible with any Class 1 modem. Color faxing has a full implementation of industry standard ITU T.30-E.
Microsoft Win2000/XP or Vista
To use the Impact ColorFax or Impact ColorFax Lite software you must have an internal or external fax modem attached to your PC. A Lexmark or HP multi function printer is not enough.
Impact ColorFax Lite: Any single Class 1 fax modem
Impact ColorFax: Any Class 1, Class 2, or Class 2.0 fax modem.
PLEASE NOTE: DSL and cable modems cannot be used to send faxes.