diff -up hplip-3.13.3/fax/soapfax.py.unicode hplip-3.13.3/fax/soapfax.py
--- hplip-3.13.3/fax/soapfax.py.unicode	2013-03-08 08:15:22.000000000 +0100
+++ hplip-3.13.3/fax/soapfax.py	2013-03-20 13:47:25.648183641 +0100
@@ -136,7 +136,12 @@ Cache-control: No-cache
 
 
     def setStationName(self, name):
-        return self.post("/hp/device/set_config.html", {"FaxCompanyName": str(name)})
+        try:
+            name = name.encode('utf-8')
+        except(UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError):
+            log.error("Unicode Error")
+
+        return self.post("/hp/device/set_config.html", {"FaxCompanyName": name})
 
 
     def getStationName(self):