Email Fax
Save paper, save toner, save desk space and save electricity! Start using an email fax system today. Instead of buying an expensive fax machine and dealing with paper jams and expensive toner, using fax to email is free (most times) and you can store all your faxes digitally!
We used to have a fax machine at home, many years ago. We bought it second hand because the darned things are so expensive brand new! It was the type of fax machine that works on a roll of paper and then a mechanism in the machine heats the paper in just the right pattern to make the digital fax picture (or words) turn into a picture (or words) on paper. Or, at least, that's my very basic understanding of how it worked.
It's a cute idea but it's not really practical any more. Fax paper is expensive and usually looks unprofessional. And usually you'll get a 17-page fax come in while you're waiting on an important call. Besides, who wants to read a roll of paper? This isn't early Rome, I like my paper white and flat, thank you very much! It's completely impractical!
A year after we bought our fax, it started fading. Now we were struggling to read our faxes and we were spending too much money on paper. The system wasn't working - it was just too clunky.
Now, in more recent years, we've switched to email fax as a solution - the results? It's free, we each have our own fax number, our faxes are always clear, the line is never busy, we never have to replace expensive fax paper and we can print the odd fax out (it really doesn't happen often) using our el cheapo HP laser printer. And we get great quality every time!
The thing is, we're already using the printer so it doesn't really add much strain to also print faxes on it and we only print a few, now and then, when we need to sign the fax or something.
You can receive all your faxes as PDFs so you can open them on Windows, Mac, or even Linux. You don't need to install any special software or do anything special at all to receive email faxes! All you need is an internet connection, an email address, and a free email fax number.
