Re: Is Fax Dead Yet?

In article <URf1k.3704$xZ.1370@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Jim Thompson wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:43:56 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
<zapwireDASHgroups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:M0e1k.6485$Ri.2719@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.


I have several billing situations where I E-mail the invoice, the
responsible engineer signs it off and FAXes it back to me. Then I
scan it and E-mail to their accounts payable department ;-)


Hmm, mine are nowadays very often accepted as PDF sans signature.

I have to use a web-based time accounting app, then either print the
output to PDF and email, or to a dead tree and fax to my handler.
Ain't computers wunnerful?

Overseas clients then wire the funds which costs fees but saves the trip
to the bank.

You or the client?

--
Keith
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