Now the fax machine will scan each of the document pages into its memory. After all of the pages have been scanned, you'll hear a series of fax tones. These tones signal the handshake between the sending and receiving fax machine, establishing a communication link, wait for a few minutes as the fax is sent, if the fax machine has a small display screen, look for a confirmation that the fax went through. Some fax machine will also print out a short confirmation report