Question : Fax a report through a Windows 2003 server

Is there  a way to send a report as a fax from Access 97?  This application is running on Windows 2000 Professional workstations connected to a Windows 2003 domain.  I have an external fax modem connected to a 2003 server.  We would like to fax customer statements out of Access 97 database automatically, just like printing. This has to be an Access 97 solution as the accounting software runs on Access 97 and cannot be upgraded beyond this version.  We have the customer fax numbers in a the database, and we have the report we'd like to fax.  But instead of just printing the batch of statements, we'd like to fax it as well.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

Thank you in advance.

Answer : Fax a report through a Windows 2003 server

I suspect you will want to do Print Dev code to change your default printer to the FAX program. take a look here:
http://www.mvps.org/access/reports/rpt0011.htm
This is not for the faint of heart. Basically, it reads from the PC, all installed printers, stores the existing default printer, changes the default printer to be the FAX printer.
The report should be set to use the default printer. In code, your do a docmd to print the report. You will also have to access the API for the FAX printer to be able to send the telephone number and associated data.

Bottom line, is this can be fairly tricky to do and way above what can be answered here. I do something like this to create PDF reports and email them in batches.
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