Office fax machine died, options for receiving faxes?

[Joemonkey]

How difficult would it be to set up a dedicated PC with a modem that would be the "fax machine" for received faxes? I'm not concerned with faxing to someone, just receiving faxes.

Currently people walk over to the fax machine, see what faxes came in, put them in people's mailboxes or if generic in a box next to the machine. I would prefer we just buy another damn fax machine, but one of the higher ups wanted me to look into simply not having a physical fax machine anymore. Any ideas?

 

[Kelemvor]

Windows comes with Fax software on it doesn't it? if not I'm sure you can get some pretty easy. But yeah, just let it sit there. I don't know about having it print all the incoming faxes automatically though, you'd have to look into that.

But buying a fax machine is a lot cheaper than buying a PC....

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Efax get your faxes over email

 

[suklee]

We use relayfax, it also is able to route your faxes to your email address...

www.altn.com

 

[Joemonkey]

I don't think they would want to pay for an internet fax or fax-email service. The only problem I see is what FrankyJunior said, how to get it to automagically print all rec'd faxes

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
I don't think they would want to pay for an internet fax or fax-email service. The only problem I see is what FrankyJunior said, how to get it to automagically print all rec'd faxes

Using windows 2000....i know we have it setup here at work to auto print when a fax comes in and to also save it as a file. We can also have it go to a users mailbox. This just using the built in Windows 2000 fax service.

If you have an old computer and printer sitting around somewhere, that may be a good idea to just put it to use to print off faxes. But it is still more feasible to get another fax machine if the PC is usable elsewhere.

 

[Joemonkey]

We just did quite a few upgrades, so I have some old P3 500 and P3 866 machines laying around doing nothing. This would be the perfect application for them, I won't even add it to the domain or put it on the network for that matter.

I tried looking around in the fax manager on my PC, but it doesn't have a modem, which means the fax service would not even start. After messing around with it on a laptop here I see how easy it is to set up.

Sorry I asked about it when I could have just looked at a machine w/ a modem and gotten all my answers there!