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IST provides a fax service for faculty and staff to send and receive faxes without having a dedicated fax phone line.

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Send a fax with the central fax service using your University of Waterloo email

  1. 6<fax number>@fax.uwaterloo.ca (where <fax number> is the actual fax number) e.g. 65198884007@fax.uwaterloo.ca

    • For long distance faxes you need the “1” digit e.g. 61<fax number>@fax.uwaterloo.ca

    • For international calls you need the “011” prefix e.g. 6011<fax number>@fax.uwaterloo.ca

  • Send an email with optional attachments (supported attachment types: HTML, PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, WPD, RTF, TXT, PS, GIF, JPG, BMP, TIFF)

  • You will receive a confirmation email a few minutes after sending

Department Xerox printer

  1. Select the email icon from the home screen

  2. Enter the fax number after "To:"

    1. 6<fax number>@fax.uwaterloo.ca (where <fax number> is the actual fax number) e.g. 65198884007@fax.uwaterloo.ca

      • For long distance faxes you need the “1” digit e.g. 61<fax number>@fax.uwaterloo.ca

      • For international calls you need the “011” prefix e.g. 6011<fax number>@fax.uwaterloo.ca

  3. Select "Enter"

  4. Select "Send"

  • You will receive a printed confirmation a few minutes after sending

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