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Offline schro

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Fax machines..... you still use them?
« 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?
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Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2009, 09:25:07 AM »
Quote from: schro on February 04, 2009, 09:14:19 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.

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Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
« Reply #2 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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Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
« Reply #3 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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Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
« Reply #5 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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Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2009, 07:04:26 PM »
Quote from: 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.

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. 
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Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
« Reply #7 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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Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
« Reply #8 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.
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Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2009, 07:33:29 AM »
Quote from: 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)

Whats a fax?

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Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2009, 07:59:50 AM »
Private no.

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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.

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Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
« Reply #11 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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Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2009, 02:08:30 PM »
I remember when fax was high-tech ...
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Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2009, 03:58:12 PM »
Yeah, PDF pretty much trumps the fax.
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Re: Fax machines..... you still use them?
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2009, 05:56:20 PM »
Quote from: The Scottish Ambassador on February 05, 2009, 07:33:29 AM
Quote from: 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)

Whats a fax?

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 ;D ;D Er...yeah, I meant like, one of the YOUNGER ones?! ;) ;D
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