I'm not buying a fax machine, but recently, I've come across the need to use a fax machine rather often. Instead of running to the Kinkos to do my buisness, I was looking into these fax to email services. Does anyone have any experience with this? Which service would you recommend?

1/16/2006 2:13:40 PM

All you need is a modem and a scanner to turn a windows XP box into a fax machine. no third party software is needed.


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/crawford_02october21.mspx

1/16/2006 2:17:14 PM

just hook a computer up to the phone line and set up a virtual fax

[Edited on January 16, 2006 at 2:18 PM. Reason : im slow]

1/16/2006 2:17:36 PM

I don't have a phone line. All I have is my cell phone.

1/16/2006 2:18:14 PM

It might be cheaper/easier to just pay for phone service.


If it's really sensitive shit, I'd be cautious about sending it through a third party server.

1/16/2006 2:19:56 PM

if I were to get a voip service (like vonage) can you still do the fax through any windows xp machine cited above?

1/16/2006 2:22:19 PM

http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic1384.html

1/16/2006 2:23:28 PM

hmm... thanks...

1/16/2006 2:50:30 PM

sarcasm?

1/16/2006 2:54:27 PM

no, actually, that link didnt' speak very fondly of fax via vonage.

Sorry, i suppose you could construe my hmm... thanks as sarcasm, but it was actually a "thanks for the help" post.

I'll figure something out

1/16/2006 3:43:51 PM

luckily my apt complex lets you use the fax free during office hours. doesnt help much off hours or if you get a lot of incomming but it is nice. i agree just paying for a phone line will probably be cheaper if you plan on doing a lot of faxing though.

1/16/2006 3:45:47 PM

what's a phone line run nowadays, I haven't had one since 1996

1/16/2006 3:48:59 PM