On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, DerbyDad03 wrote:

On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 9:41:05 AM UTC-4, Don Wiss wrote:

In my case, never, but the FAX feature is built in to most (all?)
all-in-ones so the question is kind of irrelevant.

As I wrote earlier, Brother has a two-in-one B&W laser that I use as my
main printer. Nice flatbed scanner/copier. No feeder. I haven't sent or
received a fax in years.

There is one downside to scanning with an all-in-one. They do not scan to
the edges. The printer cannot print to the edge, and they only scan where
on the page they can print.

How often is either of them an issue? (That's a real question) In my use,
I can't recall a situation where either of those have been a problem.

Scanning to the edge is very important to me. I often have things to scan
for my websites that go right to the edge. For most scanning I have a Canon
Canoscan. It scans to the edge. When I need the 11x17 scanner I have 1/8" x
1/4" plastic I-beams that I put along an edge, so the piece to be scanned
all gets scanned.

For things even bigger than my 11x17 scanner, I use Microsoft's free Image
Composite Editor to automatically stitch together.

Don. www.donwiss.com (e-mail link at home page bottom).