Posted: 11/24/2011 5:37:46 PM EDT
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Anyone got any experience with email fax services? I am now an official work at home employee and am in need of fax services. Receiving is not as important as sending. Send a couple pages a week, so I'm not a big user, but when I need it, I need it.
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Ring Central is cheap, but doesn't seem to talk to older fax machines well (I'm guessing the negotiation between "standard" and "high quality" faxes isn't working right). On top of this, I often get "successful fax" confirmations even though the fax did not go through.
eFax is slightly more expensive, but I've found it to work better. The client software is hit-or-miss (it has a hard time turning certain PDFs into faxes, I'm not sure what the issue is) but faxing through email has always worked. You can set "standard" resolution as the default if you are sending to older machines. In tests to myself, I've seen faxes that made it 90% through get a "unsuccessful fax" message, so you seem to have good notice if something doesn't go through. HTH, WTF |
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But really, faxing is so yesterday since you can push a Email with an attachment a lot faster. My understanding is that Legal, Medial, and Transportation fields are still highly dependent on faxes. I like faxes; you know fairly quickly whether your message made it across or not; there is no such observable trail with email. -WhyTanFox |
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Standard dial up modem with fax, on the machine tied to a phone line to dial out will serve your purpose nicely. But really, faxing is so yesterday since you can push a Email with an attachment a lot faster. Don't want the monthly costs of a landline, so that's why I'm looking for e-fax. And I totally agree that fax is so yesterday, but like WTF said, so many people only accept a fax. Which is totally ridiculous if you think about it. Much more security can be built into emailed PDF's IMO. Anyhow, thanks for all the input folks, think I'll be going efax.... |