Electronic Fax Machine
“Fax” is the abbreviated form of
facsimile that means “reproduction of a document etc”; similarly “telefax”
means “reproducing document etc at a distance”. Through fax machine you can transmit information, documents or data via
pulses over telephone line. This machine includes modem, scanner and
printer. Pictures, text, graphs or
whatever documents you intend to send is first scanned in the machine and then
transmitted to another fax machine at recipient’s end. Recipient can take out print of the document
in black & white or color.
Traditional fax machines have
been now replaced by Electronic machines,
computers and internet. Online fax can now be sent with greater speed, ease and
at low cost with the use of computers and software. Now email faxing has become more in
prevalence. Electronic fax has now taken the shape of online fax or sending fax
to an email address. It has now become as easy as sending an ordinary
email. This method of online fax has
become the most favored method of sending faxes.
Electronic fax
is also known as Internet Faxing or Online Faxing. In this paperless method of
sending faxes, one can transmit and receive fax via email. Unlike traditional bulky fax machines,
software for email fax is very space economic besides being cheap; and it also
does not need separate and expensive phone line. For online fax you need to have your computer
and the internet connection. Electronic fax (online fax) is the boon
of development of Information Technology.
There are some phones like Blackberry or iPhone where you
can even receive faxes directly no matter where you are. These types of phones
syncs with your email inbox through internet. Since the electronic fax (online fax) is received straight to your email box,
there is no risk of misplacing a fax and you have a permanent copy of each fax. The top electronic fax providers out there are RingCentral, MyFax, RapidFax, and eFax.
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