Abstract: The terminal housing firstly includes a base (1) which contains circuits corresponding respectively to a telephone circuit (4) and to a power supply (5), a roll (8) of continuous print medium (9), one or more motors (6) actuating both a medium-cutting device and drive rollers (10, 11) for a document to be faxed and for the continuous print medium, and secondly includes a hinged cover (2) which contains at least a man-machine communication arrangement (16, 17), a monitoring logic circuit (13), a scanning head (14), and a print head (15), and which is hinged at one end on the base so that it is alternately either closed on the base so as to close the housing and to position the heads relative to their associated rollers, or open so as to give access to the essential components both inside the base and inside the cover.