Internet Fax – The Evolution of Faxing
Are you still using a fax machine? Believe it or not there are still millions of people using traditional fax machines in the world right now, and what they do not know is that there is a much quicker and effective way to send and receive documents for business or personal purposes: Internet faxing. Using the power of the Internet we can send a document a lot of times faster than with a machine and without having to deal with paper jams!
If you want to take the next step in fax technology, you have two options: using software or paying for a service that allows you to send fax through Internet. If you are new to them, I would suggest you start with a service, since they are more user friendly, accessible and you get customer support 24/7 via different channels. Software also works fine, but will need a little bit of knowledge for setting it up. With both of these options you will be able to try before buying, software comes in the form of shareware, while Internet fax services offer free 30 day trials.
If you are afraid to make the jump to electronic fax because many of your clients use fax machines, you can put those worries down. When a fax is sent digitally, it is converted into a file that is compatible with both fax machines and computers, a TIFF file. If the receiving end has a machine, there will be no problem in the reception of the document.
A great advantage services have is that they give you your own Internet fax number. When you start signing up for a plan, they will ask you whether you want to have a local number a toll-free number. This is offered in USA, but companies such as Ringcentral and MyFax also have Canada fax service options with numbers in the country.