Electronic fax
Save time and money with Internet fax services
With electronic fax services, also known as Internet fax services, you can compose, send, and receive faxes digitally, just like an email. This saves you both time and money over using traditional fax machines for your faxing needs.
How Electronic Faxing Saves You Time
When you use Internet fax services, you don't have to get up from your desk and go to the fax machine every time you want to send a fax, check if a sent fax has gone through yet, receive a fax, or check if a fax you're waiting for has come in. You don't even have to leave your computer.
Electronic faxing saves you waiting time too - some of the worst wasted time there is. As email is to the post office, Internet fax services are to traditional faxing using a phone line. That is, there's no waiting! No waiting for your turn to use the fax machine; you can do it right for your computer, or any computer with an Internet connection. No waiting for it to be loaded with paper, ink or toner cartridge (or worse, having to do it yourself); you don't need any supplies for electronic faxing other than your existing computer and Internet connection. Likewise, and for the same reasons, there's no waiting for a broken fax machine to be repaired.
As mentioned, there's no waiting for a fax sent or received to go through; electronic faxes are sent and received in the background, while you work on other things, with notifications confirming that an electronic fax you sent was delivered and received, and alerting you when new electronic faxes have been delivered into your inbox, to be read at your convenience.
How Electronic Faxing Saves You Money
Many of the items already mentioned in the previous section cost money: fax paper, ink, toner cartridge, a dedicated phone line, maintenance and repair, not to mention the cost of the fax machine itself. But if you're reading this, then you already have a computer with an Internet connection (or access to one). That's all you need for electronic faxing - that and a paid subscription with an Internet fax services. But compared to the costs of fax paper, ink, toner cartridge, a dedicated phone line, maintenance and repair, and the fax machine itself, a few dollars a month for a set number or unlimited number of efaxes sent and received (depending on the plan you sign up for) is a total bargain.
Internet fax services are able to charge such low prices for what they do because their overhead is so low. Since an electronic fax is a digital file that costs nothing to send over broadband frequencies (in comparison to electronic faxes which require all of the above stated expenses), Internet fax services can pass that cost savings on to you.
And by the way, some may say that with traditional faxing you don't have to pay for a dedicated phone line; you can just use an existing phone line to double as both a fax and a phone line. But what you save in money with that option, you lose in time...and worse. Because while you're sending or receiving a fax over your only phone line, you could be missing an important phone call. But Internet fax services use your existing Internet connection - no extra connection needed - so there's no risk of lost correspondence. With electronic faxing.
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