OT: Managing a Contact List

[keith smith]

I may not have to standup to go to the fax machine, however I have to standup to go to the scanner to scan in docs.  This is great, and I have done it in the past, however the manufacturer of my  all-in-one printer/fax/scanner/copier has not released drivers that work in windows 7 or 8 and I am not sure what is going on with Linux.

As for cost,  I have a business voice line and I added a second number that has distinct ringing that activates the fax.  On the off chance I am on the phone when a fax is inbound, it goes to voice mail and I can send it to the fax when I dial into my voice mail.  All this is an extra couple bucks a month.  Much cheaper than fax by email.  And at this point works just find.  I see not need to buy new hardware so I can scan docs.  If I need it I'll do so.

Your feedback is much appreciated!!  

 
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Keith Smith



On Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:07 AM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
 
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.
>
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> Keith Smith
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 1:11 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at 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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