My point was that faxing is old technology that can (and should) be
completely replaced by email/web/cloud storage... whatever is the most
appropriate for your document.
Email is more reliable, and you get to see what the document looks like
before you send it and it's even more of a time saver, because you don't
even have to stand up and go to the fax machine.
Fax requires special equipment that can have all sorts of problems from
low toner, paper jams, incomplete document retrieval, mechanical
failures....etc...etc... It also requires in most circumstances a
dedicated phone line, so you get to pay $45 a month for a low quality
version of a document when you can get a high quality one for free. Not
to mention the cost of the paper, toner (costs for both sender and
reciever) and the machine itself.
It's the one piece of equipment that everyone thinks they need until you
point out the alternatives and then they quickly decided that they don't
need to pay a bunch of money every money to service Luddites.
Brian Cluff
On 02/13/2014 06:49 AM, keith smith wrote:
> Faxing can be a great time saver. For instance if I forget to give my
> CPA something, I can fax it and save myself the hour round trip drive.
>
> Also faxes get read. Emails go unopened and I probably will not get the
> cellular number of most of the people I have some sort of relationship
> with so texting is out of the question.
>
> That leaves phone, fax, and email.
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 1:11 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com>
> wrote:
> On 02/12/2014 01:02 PM, Ed wrote:
> > Asterisk - who sends faxes->mailmerge?
>
> Faxes? Do you know of a service for mailing out 8-Track tapes too :)
>
> Brian
>
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