Send and Receive Faxes From Your Computer
By Lee Simonson
You can send and receive faxes from your computer, laptop or PDA device. It's simple, easy and the technology has advanced so much in the past few years, that is actually less expensive than using a traditional fax machine.
Because there is no need for an extra phone line, and you are using your computer's online connection with the Internet to send and receive faxes, you can save approximately $30 per month, per fax line. Moreover, you also eliminate any ink and toner expenses, fax machine and maintenance costs, and long distance costs. Overall, with a computer fax service, you can cut your faxing costs approximately in half.
There are several advantages to sending and receiving your faxes from your computer:
1) You have much more security. Rather than having a fax come into a central office fax machine, only to be manually handled by several people before it gets delivered to you, a computer fax is sent to your email as an attachment. Assuming you have a password protected email account, you won't find a more security to receive a fax.
2) Once you receive a fax on your computer, you have the option of either forwarding it via email to others, saving it to your hard drive, or printing it out. This saves on paper and ink and also provides the convenience of automatically digitizing important documents. If you save it to your harddrive, and have an offsite backup service, you will never lose these documents in case of a fire or other disaster.
3) If you have plans to convert your phone service to digital cable or VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) you will in all likelihood use a computer fax service. Why? Because traditional fax machines, which are analog, don't work on a digital connection. In effect, your old fax machine will be rendered obsolete as soon as you switch over to digital for your voice communications. That being said, sending and receive faxes from your computer become less of an option, and something that you will have to do anyway.
4) There is a wide range of programs you can choose from when you get a computer fax service. Anything from SOHO (small office, home office) applications to corporate enterprise accounts with thousands of separate "mailboxes" can be easily set up. The advantage is you can pick and choose the kind of service you want that meet your particular needs.
5) You also will receive your own toll free fax number which included in the monthly rate. Having a toll free number is very convenient for your customers or prospects. And if you want to keep the same fax number you have, that can be easily done as well. Whether you use your existing number, of get a new toll free one, people who send you faxes will dial the number as usual, and your fax will be automatically sent to your email, wherever you are. So if you can get email at the office, across the street, out of the country, or wherever -- you will be able to receive faxes.
These are few of the major advantages that you can receive by using computer fax services that will enable you to send and receive faxes from your computer.
You can try computer faxing, for free, at this website: http://www.orangepoint.net/computerfax.html
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