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Fax Machine?talk - Office Machines
| Fax Machine? I am looking for suggestions for a reliable low cost laser fax machine. Not one of those multi function machines, just a plain old fax. I saw one from Brother but couldn't find any other ones with a decent price tag. |
| I like the service from Packetel.com for $4 or $5/month you get a fax number. The faxes sent to that number show up in your email. You can choose which ones to print or not. Never run out of paper. Never have a busy signal. No help for sending faxes though. |
| Hey Ralph, that's a nice link you've posted there! It will certainly come in useful! |
| You may want to check out some online services that you don't even need a fax machine. Everything is done online through your computer I believe. With technology fax machines will be gone in a few years. |
| I agree with Ralph. The company that I work for gave me an online fax number and it works out great!! I do have to have a fax machine to fax out but receiving faxes through my email is a Godsend. |
| My brother used to work for efax.com. He still has an efax number. As you've all mentioned, receiving faxes is a piece of cake, but sending them is another matter altogether. Office Depot charges, I believe, $1.39 for the first page and a $1.00 for each subsequent page for local faxes. Can be very expensive to have to fax elsewhere. I know this isn't what you asked for, but I have a Lexmark X4270 in my home office and I love it. Yes, it does more than fax, but I haven't had a problem with it. |
| Ringcentral (though we've had some tech problems with them) offers a fax out service. You print to THEIR fax and out it goes. Just like the fax modems but it is sent through the internet. I think it is 5 cents a minute. For 1 page faxes just put the page in your scanner and use your "copy" software to "print" it. |
| I have one of those Brother fax machines. I got a great deal on it from Fry's Electronics - I think I paid $20 for it!! Still works like a charm. |
| Don't computers come with a fas/modem inside? can't you just plug the computer into the phone jack and send a fax directly from Word? Maybe I'm way oversimplifying things, but that's what I did years ago when I still had dial-up and no fax machine. Back then I could only send and couldn't receive faxes. |
| It is clunky, ties up a phone line.. another cable... if you travel internationally.... much nicer to use the internet for sending and email for receiving. |
| Joe, how do you use the Internet to send faxes? I know how to receive faxes through email, but not how to send them. If I have a contract I've signed and it's in my hands, how do you propose I send that through the Internet? |
| Ring Central offers a fax out service (though I had trouble when it stopped working for a while and faxes went to nana land). You just select the Ring Central Fax out from the printer menu. It basically works like a fax modem, but is transmitted via the internet and out from a Ring Central telephone line. For the signed contract... pop it in a scanner. I have a cheap cannon scanner that came with a "copy" utilities. I hit copy and select Ring Central for the printer and off goes the fax. It's a pain for more than 1 page faxes. But it beats paying a couple bucks a page and waiting for ever for a copy shop to make international faxes for me. |
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