Monday, February 07, 2005
Receive and send faxes by email
Old style faxes used to use thermal paper. There is a host of problems associated with using that old style paper. Even plain paper faxes have problems, namely they use paper! I moved to faxes by email about two years ago. First I used eFax but now I'm using Telus.
I no longer receive paper copies of faxes. They arrive in my email as a TIF attachment. This allows me to forward them to colleagues, edit them in the computer and even apply OCR (convert the image to text).
The service is always on. I don't have to switch anything, have callers push a special button, nothing. It is very, very simpl. And the best part is it's cheaper than a second fax line!
