Fax machines. Are they obselete now?

Not sure - I'll send you a fax.

I'll get me coat

Quite a few business still ask for fax and are not switched to email perhaps they also like a copy of the "real" signature of the sender - whereas an email could originate from any where

Perhaps you can investigate using a faxing centre that you email to and then they fax out for you and they can also handle incoming faxes and convert hem into email

look at
fax from internet

or you could have the pc receive and send faxes -

There is fax software available to allow you to send faxes via your computer. All you need to do is get your signature scanned in and then you can construct ready-made faxes at your leisure.

When I had a PC I used to use some addition on to Word to be able to do it - I think it was called FAXstf or something like that.

HTH.

Jon

My wife and I recently purchased a fax machine. We've found it useful, particularly when dealing with the bank, the lawyer, the insurance company, and a regional council while applying for permits etc. All these places have email but requested faxes from us in certain instances.

We also found it useful for sending letters to my brother-in-law before he came back to NZ for his annual holiday this year. He works long hours and when we fax him its waiting in the tray when he gets home.

We're quite glad we bought it.

Deane

I do have fax software on the PC and have had a signiture as a jpeg on file that I insert for years. I can use that on an email too.
Using the PC for faxes is great provided you never turn it off (to receive).
I might set the trend & dump it!

Derek talking of real signatures, i didnt think a fax machine document was "legal" as my wife was asked not to send a signed trust paper by fax

Not yet but faux machines are.

I send and receive faxes using PumaOne Internet Fax Services and find them to be very good indeed. You get your own fax number so no one's any the wiser. I generally just send a Word file with no front sheet. I have scanned in my signature and tend to stretch it in Word so that it's slightly different each time.

Mind you, a few more years and I'll have to think about switching off my telex.

Regards
Steve M

PS: You don't have to leave the PC switched on with this service. Outgoing faxes are sent over the Internet and I receive email notification of receipt of incomings.

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Originally posted by Martin D:
Derek talking of real signatures, i didnt think a fax machine document was "legal" as my wife was asked not to send a signed trust paper by fax

Faxed documents aren't "legal" but we have been asked to fax a signed document and follow it up with the original in the mail. It speeded things up a little.

Rasher - how much would you miss just doing that quick sketch and pressing the 'go' button to site? The alternative is to sketch anyway and scan the result (or worse, cad extract +print to PDF) and hope the berk on the other end - who needed a simplified 5-line diagram anyway - can read the file.

Yes fax is outdated - but it does have its uses!

HHHmmm....maybe, but at least if it was sketched and scanned, it would be saved in the job folder and not lost in the pile of debris on my desk
I hate all those lever arch files!

Actually I was playing Devil's advocate

We've long since gone to such a system where everything paper-based (mostly incoming) is scanned to file; and email - or one of the common-view web-based systems on large jobs - takes care of the rest.

I've sent less than 5 faxes in the last 5 years... and then only because the network was playing up!