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Various Non-Bald Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: schro on February 04, 2009, 09:14:19 AM

Title: Fax machines..... you still use them?
Post by: schro on February 04, 2009, 09:14:19 AM
I have a home fax for my office. Just noticed rates for our phone company went up (not surprising) this past month. I am considering canceling it. If I need to send a fax, I'll just head down to our local AIM Mail Center, Kinko's, or UPS Store. For the amount I pay to the phone company for the convenience of having an in-home fax, I'm sure not using it. Or, I can just scan and email any documents.

Just curious, who here still uses a fax machine?
Title: Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
Post by: warhawk on February 04, 2009, 09:25:07 AM
Just curious, who here still uses a fax machine?
hey schro:  i use fax machines at the hospital all time.  however, i don't use it away from work.  if i need 2 fax anything (personally), i go 2 the local kinko's.

WARHAWK O0
Title: Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
Post by: ChromeDomeJohn on February 04, 2009, 09:38:43 AM
I think faxes are becoming kind of obselete.  it's so easy to send a document by email; rather than a fuzzy fax (though the qualilty has certainly improved over the years) so for me ,  it's  'why bother with faxes?'
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Post by: Mikekoz13 on February 04, 2009, 09:43:52 AM
Nah.... I have one that I've never used. The wonderful PDF file makes those nasty things obsolete as John stated.
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Post by: Alexander215 on February 04, 2009, 03:59:19 PM
I don't use them, but for time critical business deals when you need things signed and sent and recieved, Fax machines become very handy.
Title: Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
Post by: Rob on February 04, 2009, 05:20:32 PM
I'm waiting for one of the younger ones to say 'what's a fax?' ;D  No: never used one in my life. 8)
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Post by: D.A.L.U.I. on February 04, 2009, 07:04:26 PM
Nah.... I have one that I've never used. The wonderful PDF file makes those nasty things obsolete as John stated.

Haven't faxed in several years, it's just to easy and the documents are much "cleaner" if scanned then e-mailed, for executed documents, and faxed either before or after conversion to .pdf. 
Title: Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
Post by: SlyHigh on February 05, 2009, 07:05:58 AM
A lot of things still require faxes.  Financial and insurance forms that must be signed either have to be faxed or mailed.  They haven't caught up to email and scanning just yet.

We have copiers at work that scan easily.  Put the document on the feeder, press scan, press my name, and start.  Bam, it's in my inbox as a pdf.  It wasn't too long ago that scanning was a pain, particularly on home scanners.  Early scanners wouldn't scan as a pdf, and the resulting image file was huge.

I have a fax machine for my business, but it has been used only a couple of times.  We have one at my regular job, so I can send a fax from there if needed.
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Post by: marty22 on February 05, 2009, 07:13:06 AM
I use them at work occasionally but I got rid of my personal one. DIdnt need it.
Title: Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
Post by: The Scottish Ambassador on February 05, 2009, 07:33:29 AM
I'm waiting for one of the younger ones to say 'what's a fax?' ;D  No: never used one in my life. 8)

Whats a fax?

 :*))
Title: Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
Post by: joergHH on February 05, 2009, 07:59:50 AM
Private no.

At work often.
Safety rules in Germany prohibit the use of Emails or unprotected web-connections for transfer of radiologic examinations (digital x-ray, CT, MRI, US) and their comments via Web.

Fax send out of our RIS is easy and safe.

J
Title: Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
Post by: Tyler on February 05, 2009, 10:49:10 AM
I use CallWave - https://www.callwave.com/landing/virtualFax_L1.aspx

It only cost me $13 a month and I can receive and send faxes directly from email or the web.  I also get a local phone number with voicemail.
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Post by: wpruitt on February 05, 2009, 02:08:30 PM
I remember when fax was high-tech ...
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Post by: Michael on February 05, 2009, 03:58:12 PM
Yeah, PDF pretty much trumps the fax.
Title: Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
Post by: Rob on February 05, 2009, 05:56:20 PM
I'm waiting for one of the younger ones to say 'what's a fax?' ;D  No: never used one in my life. 8)

Whats a fax?

 :*))

 ;D ;D Er...yeah, I meant like, one of the YOUNGER ones?! ;) ;D
Title: Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
Post by: GASlick on February 05, 2009, 06:05:16 PM
I use the fax here at the hospital all the time.  I have to send out x-ray reports to the ordering docs every night.
Title: Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
Post by: nomad on February 05, 2009, 07:50:28 PM
I use them for work all the time and we have E-faxes like Tyler mentioned they are great.
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Post by: PORKY on February 09, 2009, 02:21:06 AM
FAXES  you know like in that show "indrag nets"  when girl friday says  "gimme the fax mam just the fax "