Re: Is Fax Dead Yet?

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T wrote:
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"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Case in point: Yesterday before lunch someone needed to see a copy of a
document, quickly. Internet was already off, plus I had to leave in about 30
seconds. Now try that situation via email attachment. I just slapped it onto
the fax machine, keyed in the number, hit "Send", done. Took less than the
30secs I had.
Not to be too much of a foil here, Joerg, but there are plenty of scanners/MFP
machines out there that can directly e-mail a PDF from a scanned paper
document. (Everywhere I've worked in the past 5+ years now has had one...
they plug into your Ethernet network and then connect directly through
whatever your Internet connection is...)

Typing in an e-mail address does take longer than dialing a phone number,
though. :-) And you've made some good points that FAX definitely has some
points in its favor over e-mail, but I'm not convinced those are compelling
enough that FAX machines are going to survive much longer.




Indeed. When I was at the SoS a few years ago we installed two Savin
4075's that had scan to email features. People loved that.


Usually until the first one has reached a Blackberry or some poor guy in
Upper Podunk on a noisy dial-up. Downloading 1 of 1 Emails, 2% complete,
15 minutes remaining, shhhrk ... beep ... click. Been there many times,
hated it, had the schematic faxed, done.




Well, blame the carriers for not giving better bandwidth or broadband
connections everywhere.

.

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