How many of you guys still have a fax line?

[Judgement]

rightfax FTW

 

[olds]

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Home landline
FAX landline
Personal cell
Work cell
Wife has cell

 

[Pepsi90919]

my voip tends to fax OK

 

[TanisHalfElven]

Originally posted by: eflatmajor
It would great to go wireless and not have to pay for wired phone service, but I am still tied to it for a fax line. What are you guys all doing for faxes? I know there are internet fax services but from what I have seen they do not look very convenient.


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i use an online service called K7 to recive faxes if i need to (for free as attactments in my email). and use a chep online service to send faxes (by scanning them). its cheaper (ususally free) and much much more conveniant.

 

[TallBill]

I don't even have a phone line. However, I do have to send a fax this week.

 

[FoBoT]

fax?

you mean that thing when the monks in the caves would copy stuff by hand?

 

[Electric Amish]

I have a landline for DirectTV, but never fax at home.

We have FAX at work.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
We don't even have a landline.

I haven't had a home land line in about 7 years.

At work we have 3 fax lines. 1 actual fax machine and 2 that go in to a fax server.

 

[Auric]

I have carrier pigeons. I was thinking of getting wired for telegraph but then figgered I'd wait for this new telex thing.

 

[syee]

My telco offered me a "smart ring" line (basically DRPD) for my phone line and 5 other services (I got call waiting, caller ID, anonymous call block, and a few more I won't ever use) for $5 extra a month. Seemed like a pretty good deal since caller ID and call waiting were 2 features I was going to get anyways and the price was good. (Caller ID itself is worth 5 bucks).

It still uses one phone line, but they give you a seperate number and a distinctive ring. My all in one fax/printer/scanner/coffee maker/swiss army knife is able to pick up the distinctive ring pattern and answer as a fax. Works great for me since I still need the fax on occasion and doesn't require that my PC be turned on to receive. The distinctive ring rings my phone differently so I know it's a fax, and the price can't be beat.

 

[50cent1228]

i had one until last year

 

[Lithium381]

i do, RARELY use it though....i have a landline for DSL, so it's hooked up there "just in case"

 

[eflat]

Wow I'm just a student but in the last two weeks:

1. Had to fax my school medical info
2. Had to fax in a receipt for a software program that I lost the CD for
3. My doctors all rely on fax machines. Look on any business car and it usually has a fax number and a phone number.
4. Prescriptions sometimes you need to send in stuff to the pharmacy

I could go on and on. .


It's 10x easier than scanning a PDF and emailing it.

 

[archcommus]

Yeah faxing is still pretty important. Have to fax official docs frequently if I don't want to have to mail it. Paying for a fax service and scanning doesn't sound all that great, don't even own a scanner.

We have a fax at home but gave up the dedicated line for it recently when we switched to Comcast Digital Voice. When I have to fax something I do it at work.

 

[mundane]

Apologies for bumping an old thread, but my company is having a small fax crisis. Our office fax machine is nearing the end of its life, and I'd like to transition to an online service, but there are some constraints:
1) Receive files as PDF, not TIFF or some other less ubiquitous format
2) A toll free number wouldn't be bad (for receving)
3) Received faxes are emailed; it would be nice to offer some filtering, but I don't know how well the OCR would work. Having a single fax number, it would be nice for the end-recipient to receive the fax, instead of requiring someone to grep through the incoming queue manually
4) It just *works*

A quick look suggests a number of services offer these features, but I wouldn't be comfortable pushing the suggestion without some personal feedback. Any input? Some of the above suggestions were efax, trustfax, myfax, and rightfax.

 

[Baked]

We still have a Panasonic Fax machine at work that's used daily. I think it's $400 when we bought it a number of years ago.

 

[AliasX]

I've got one.

 

[Parasitic]

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492
Still? Ever? Who ever uses faxes anyway?

You will be surprised about that actually. Some of the big companies we order things from still fail to embrace the good quality of e-mailing.

 

[MotionMan]

I have a multifunction printer which has a fax built in. I have it hooked up to my home phone line. I use it on occasion.

MotionMan

 

[legoman666]

I have to fax in my time sheet bi-weekly.