Sending a fax broadcast using NetprintQueue2FAX
The NetPrintQueue2FAX feature can also be used to easily send out fax broadcasts. Simply setup your mail merge in Microsoft Word, ensure that the recipient information is included in each page and include at the end of a document a so-called fax separator. To send a fax broadcast using the Microsoft Mail Merge feature:
- Create a database or file with recipient information, including. Fax number (required), Company name (Optional) and Recipient name (Optional). You can either use an existing data file or create a new one. For more information about this, consult the Microsoft Mail Merge help/documentation.
- Create the document, which you want to fax broadcast. Include the fax number, company name and recipient name fax fields in the merge document.
- Include the search fields that FAXmaker has to search for in front of the mail merge fields. After the mail merge fields, include the delimiter character.
- At the end of the document to be merged include the @# characters at the beginning of a line. Ensure that the line after these characters is empty. These 2 characters are referred to as the fax separator characters, and indicate to FAXmaker that the next page is a new fax.
Why the fax separator is needed
When you create a mail merge to be fax broadcasted, you must indicate the end of the merge letter, in the mail merge document. This is because Microsoft Word will create one big print job out of the mail merge, and FAXmaker needs to be able to separate each merge letter to individual faxes. Therefore, when you create a mail merge, at the end of the merge letter you must add the fax separator characters.

Merge to printer
- When your merge is set-up, merge to the printer. After the mail merge is created, print to the NetPrintQueue2FAX printer. FAXmaker will pick up the job, separate out the print job to individual fax transmissions and send out the broadcast.
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