HP Officejet Pro 8600 Getting Started Guide - Page 5

Use the printer English HP Digital Solutions The printer includes a collection of digital solutions that can help you simplify and streamline your work. Learn more! For more information about setting up and using these digital solutions, see the user guide. For information about finding the user guide, see "Where's the user guide?" on page 4. HP Direct Digital Filing HP Direct Digital Filing provides robust, general-office scanning-as well as basic, versatile, documentmanagement capabilities-for multiple users over a network. With HP Direct Digital Filing, you can simply walk up to the printer, touch a button on the printer's control panel, and either scan documents directly to computer folders on your network or quickly share them with business partners as email attachments- and all without using additional scanning software. These scanned documents can be sent to a shared network folder for personal or group access or to one or more email addresses for quick sharing. In addition, you can configure specific scan settings for each scan destination, allowing you to make sure that the best settings are being used for each specific task. HP Digital Fax Never lose important faxes misplaced within a stack of paper pages again! With HP Digital Fax, you can save incoming, black-and-white faxes to a computer folder on your network for easy sharing and storage, or you can forward faxes through email-allowing you to receive important faxes from anywhere while working away from the office. In addition, you can turn off fax printing altogether- saving money on paper and ink, as well as helping reduce paper consumption and waste. Requirements Before you set up the HP Digital Solutions, make sure you have the following: Solutions without installing the HP software, you can use the printer's embedded web server. For all HP Digital Solutions For Scan to Network Folder, Fax to Network Folder • A network connection. The printer can be connected either through a wireless connection or using an Ethernet cable. Note: If the printer is connected using a USB cable, you scan documents to a computer or attach scans to an email message using the HP software. You can receive faxes to your computer using Fax to PC or Fax to Mac. For more information, see the user guide. • The HP software. HP recommends that you set up HP Digital Solutions using the HP software provided with the printer. Tip: If you would like to set up HP Digital • An active network connection. You must be connected to the network. • An existing Windows (SMB) shared folder. For information about finding the computer name, see the documentation for your operating system. • The network address for the folder. On computer running Windows, network addresses are usually written in this format: \\mypc\sharedfolder\ • The name of the computer where the folder is located. For information about finding the computer name, see the documentation for your operating system. 5