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Fax Not Working with Time Warner, Comcast, Cox & Charter Digital Cable Services?

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If your fax is not working with your new cable service, there may be a problem with your fax machine which operates in an analog environment.  It's a common issue.

One simple way to overcome this incompatibility is to convert to computer faxing (also called digital, or "in the cloud" faxing) which will enable you to send and receive faxes from your email account.  Folks sending you a fax do it the normal way, and that fax image is automatically morphed into a PDF file that is sent to your email address (or addresses.)  There are over 10 millions computer faxing accounts in the United States alone, so the technolgy is tried-and-true.

You can keep the same fax number, or you can get a new toll-free fax number at no cost.

There are a number of advantages to cloud faxing, not the least of which is an estimated 70% savings over using your traditional fax machine and phone line.  Once you receive your fax via email, you can print it out, or save it to your harddrive or storage, and forward it via email to others in your organization.

Sending faxes from your email is easy as well.  For example, you can send a Word file from your email to a fax number and it will arrive as a regular fax to its destination.  

With computer faxing you can have a virtual fax machine with you anywhere, including your smartphone.  Fortunately, you aren't restricted to any physical location and the service is scalable, from one to thousands of accounts.  Add to that the enhanced security that comes with the service because loose paper faxes aren't floating around the office, going through several hands, before arriving to the intended recipient.  Now you get the faxes directly to the responsible person via a password secured email account.

Moreover, rather than spending a small fortune on ink cartridges for your fax machine, you have the option of going green and paperless by storing and distributing your faxes as digital files.

So if your fax machine has become victim of your new cable service and you are looking for a quick, easy, and inexpensive faxing solution, computer faxing is the way to go.  You'll save time and money.  And you will also clear off some desk space when that fax machine finds its way to your electronic museum you have been assembling in the backroom closet.

Click on the computer faxing link at the top of the page to get more details.  We can have you set up in no time and your office will humming along better than ever...

Computer Faxing (Cloud or Digital Faxing): Firms Save Thousands Faxing To and From Their Computers

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We take pride in offering computer faxing services that are saving our customers thousands of dollars a year by eliminating phone lines, expensive fax servers, maintenance, upgrades and contracts. 

The huge advantage of computer faxing is that there is no hardware or software required to get started.  You can even keep your current fax number, or allow us to offer you a new toll free fax number at no additional cost.  Bottom line:  Your fax savings are immediate!  Better yet:  You get faxes delivered directly to your email!

Very simply, computer faxing automatically converts your incoming faxes into PDF files which are then forwarded to your email inbox.  Remember in the "olden days" when faxes arrived as hard copies and then went through several hands before they reached your desk?  That's all changed, and faxes arrive a digital files on your email, enhancing security and making everything much more convenient.

Here are a few more computer faxing benefits:

• Eliminate expensive fax server costs, maintenance, upgrades and contracts.
• Eliminate phone lines.
• No hardware or software needed.
• Web based account management and backup.
• Save by going paperless.
• Automatically convert incoming paper faxes to PDF files that are sent to you as email attachments to your inbox.
• Instantly print, store or forward faxed documents.
• Print out documents while on-the-road.
• Use your current fax numbers of get new one toll free numbers at no extra cost.

     If you have stand alone fax machines, each with a separate line, you can generally save about $60 per month per machine.  Here is a cost comparison:
     
Traditional Fax Machine:  Monthly Cost
Fax Machine ($250 divided by aver. 25 month usage)  $25
Phone line:  $30
Phone long distance:  $10
Paper, toner and ink:  $10
Maintenance:  $10
Total Monthly Cost for Traditional Fax Machine:  $70

Computer Fax:  Monthly Cost
(include 350 pages per month)
Basic Fax Computer Fax Account:  $9.95
PDF editing & Electronic Signature:  .95
Total Monthly Cost for Computer Fax Service:  $10.90

     As you can see from the numbers your savings can be substantial if you have one fax machine or hundreds.  In fact, if you had 100 fax machines, you could save approximately $6000 month by converting to computer or cloud faxing.  That is an amazing $72,000 a year in savings!
     
     While fax may be in decline, it is far from dead.  Nearly all offices still use fax and millions of faxes are sent each month.  Fax is not going anywhere soon.  So, you're best bet is to save money using the latest cloud faxing technology and begin seeing the benefits of managing your documents more efficiently, effectively, and inexpensively.

Think Fax is Dead? Oh No! It's Just Shifting to a New Medium -- FOIP!

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The future is here and it's call FOIP (Fax Over Internet Protocol)!  In simple terms, it's call computer faxing.  There are some new and fascinating reports out that are projecting the computer based fax market will increase substantially from now until 2013.  In fact, 2009 will be a turning point in the fax industry because it will be the first year that digital FOIP (will outsell traditional faxing technology.

The Research and Markets group is not offering a comprehensive analysis that predicts "overall fax server revenues will show an increase of 10.5% CAGR (compound annual growth rate) to $470 million in 2013."  Moreover, the growth will not be in traditional fax services, but rather in FOIP technology.  The report states, "This growth will be primarily the result of the FOIP market, which will gain primacy in 2009 as the market sells $145 million in FOIP servers and just $130 million in conventional fax servers.  The quick rise by FOIP servers will be the result of the economic malaise, which will cause many enterprises and (VOIP) service providers to change to FOIP in order to cut costs."

So there you have it.  A trend that will basically render your old fax machine to the junk heap of  office technology.  Not only can you cut costs with
computer faxing, but even better is that your desktop computer can be converted into a mini-FOIP fax server WITHOUT any hardware or software.  Amazing!  Give us a call today and let us show you how easy it is to jump on this bandwagon that will revolutionize the way you conduct business.  You won't know how you got along without it for so long.  

Getting Your Old Fax Machine to Function on a New VOIP (Internet) Connection Doesn't Work

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Tens of thousands of businesses and offices are switching to an Internet based phone system to save monthly charges.  It's called Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) and your local cable company is standing on its head to get you to sign up for their phone service.  That's fine, but one of the difficulties you might encounter is that your office fax machines won't work on a VOIP telephone network.  The fax machines run on an analog technology and VOIP is digital.  Two completely different worlds, that by and large, don't co-exist well.

But there is a
solution!  New fax technology has made it possible for you to enjoy the low costs of VOIP, and enjoy the advantages of computer faxing at the same time.  You don't even need your old fax machine or fax lines anymore because you can do all your fax sending and receiving right from your desktop computer, or laptop.  In effect, your problems are really a blessing in disguise, because when you convert over to the new technology you'll be saving additional resources and money, not mention having your faxes automatically digitized for printing, storing and forwarding purposes.  

You can get a lot more technical information about why
traditional fax machines don't work with VOIP connections, at this website:  http://www.soft-switch.org/foip.html

You can get more information on the many
benefits of computer faxing at our website here:  http://www.orangepoint.net/computerfax.html

Inbound Faxes Stored for 30 Days -- Perfect Fax Backup Service

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When you sign up for our computer fax service several "nice" things begin happening.  For starters, you can get some sleep at night because you'll know you'll never lose another fax again.  ALL of your inbound faxes are backed up on a secured website for 30 days to protect against any disasters such as computer crashes or outages, or heaven forbid, an entire office being wiped out by a fire or natural disaster.  Protecting your communications with this kind of backup is essential these days and should be a part of any business continuity plan your organization prepared.  However, it is one of the last things anyone thinks about.  Generally speaking, most offices are involved in some sort of computer backup program.  However, how is anyone going to replace the hard copy faxes they receive that are in physical filing cabinets, if there was a fire?  Now, you don't have to worry about such things.  First, you can get a full month of automatic backup included in your nominal fee, and second, once the faxes are digitized and sent to you email inbox, you can include those documents as part of your normal and routine computer backup (which hopefully is offsite.)  You can access your secured online account where the backup faxes are stored and log into at anytime to easily manage all of your faxes in one place.  You can monitor outgoing and incoming faxes -- you can even schedule faxes to be sent at times in the future.  Take a look at this new technology and join the new breed of business and organizational leaders who have taken their faxing to the next level.  Give us a call.  We'll look forward to helping you ever step of the way.

Virtual Desktop Fax

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Amazingly, without the need for any new hardware or software, you can turn your desktop computer into a Virtual Fax machine.  Can you imagine not having to deal with extra phone lines, or ink or paper?  Better yet, you automatically receive your faxes on your email which can be picked up anywhere you have an online connection.  That's right -- the documents that folks are faxing you is instantly converted in the background into a PDF file which is attached to your email.  From their point of view, nothing changes.  They have no idea that what they are faxing you is being digitized and sent to your email in box.  It's all transparent.  If there are any changes they notice, it will be the fact that they will never get a busy signal when they transmit a message to you.  And as far as capacity is concerned, the service is unlimited.  You could receive a 1000 faxes a day, and you'll receive them all without a glitch.  Once you receive your virtual fax, you can do whatever you want with it -- you can print it out, store it on your harddrive, or forward it easily to other associates.  Why are millions of offices and organizations converting to a virtual fax environment?  Because using your computer to send faxes, or using your computer to receive faxes, is not only easy and cost effective, but also secure, efficient and environmentally friendly.

Computer Fax Services Gaining in Popularity

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Sending and receiving faxes from your computer has a lot of different names.  Sometimes it's referred to as PC Faxing, Fax to Email or Fax2Mail.  For the purposes of our website, we call it Computer Fax, because that seems to us to be the most simple explanation and label.  Basically is turns your computer, or laptop or mobile device into a mini-fax server.  Amazingly, there is no hardware or software to buy because it is an online service that operates in the background on the Internet.  Today, there are millions of users from multinational corporations to at-home businesses that are taking advantage of this revolutionary technology that is transforming business communications.  Far from being dead, faxing is alive and well -- it's just taken on a different form.  Hard copy faxes are being replaced by digital faxes and they are becoming much easier to handle.

If you want more detailed information about the advantages of Computer Fax, click on the link or give us call at the number above.