Thursday, August 6, 2009

Save Time and Money and Send Your Fax Online.

By Matt Gerchow

Back in the 90's people were scared of online faxes. Nowadays people cringe at the thought of sending the fax to a "standard" fax machine. Using an online fax is really the best way to go these days. Trying to setup WinFax or one of the other "computer-based" fax software is complicated and you have to always have the machine turned on. With the cost of online numbers being below $10 a month in most cases, why wouldn't you have an online flexible number?

Whether sending a few pages or replacing that gigantic Ricoh machine, each service offers small plans that can expand as your company grows.

The best feature about obtaining an online fax number is you don't to think about whether the fax is powered on or whether it has paper or toner. Your fax is on twenty-four hours every day and paper is always loaded. Matter of fact, it only uses paper when you decide to print, so you won't feel so guilt-ridden next time you are in the forest and those trees are staring at you.

You receive faxes online through your email. A few of the companies have software to install to read your faxes but there is a growing trend toward the .tiff and .pdf formats. Computers come standard with the .tiff format and a .pdf reader is free from Adobe.com

If you need to add a signature to a fax the best way I have determined is to use a product called Snag-it by techsmith. I open my signature and then grab it with Ctrl+C. Then I open the doc needing a signature and simply onto the page where I want to place it. Then I publish to PDF using Primo PDF. This gives me a new original PDF with my signature in place. Say goodbye to printing, signing and scanning.

If you are looking for a fast and easy way to compare the various fax services, look no further than www.fax-number.net. They offer an easy to follow comparison chart and links to free trials with the top companies.

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