Friday, March 6, 2009

Using Internet Faxing Software

By Brian Stratmore

Faxing has come a long way since its beginning in the 70s. It evolved in the 80s to be widely used, and it became a valuable tool for business who could speed up their communications with some effort at sending a document.

Now things have changed as we enter the digital age, now is the era of Internet faxing software.

Internet faxing software is much simpler to use than using old fax machines, not to mention that is less expensive and more reliable. You would have to ask yourself why so many people still use them.

Some businesses and people are afraid to change to Internet faxing because they have got used to the traditional ways of faxing. They really don't know that sending a fax through the Web is much easier.

To use fax Internet fax software with success, you need access to the Internet, the program itself and an email address/account. You will also need a scanner if you plan to send hard copies of documents.

Once you have all the requirements, the faxing program takes care of everything else. You see, traditional fax machines use the TIFF format to read files. The programs can convert this TIFF file to a readable format in your computer and vice-versa.

This way, you will also be able to send a fax directly from your mostly used applications, knowing that the program will convert it. This feature allows you to send a fax with the push of a button for example right after typing your document in Word.

Faxing software is one of the most valuable tools for businesses, big and small. And each model of business can find options that will fit best. For example a heavy use of faxing is needed by big companies and features such as fax servers and fax broadcasting will be needed.

Is there a point against fax software? Not really, for some, it may be the learning curve, but that's just a small investment to improve our fax communications, save time, money and increase productivity.

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