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Favorite online Fax service? - enrico7300 - 05-29-2008
I'm looking to fax from my house without a fax machine...is there a free or low-cost online way to do this? What are your favorite services?
Thanks,
Enrico
Re: Favorite online Fax service? - jdc - 05-29-2008
plug a phone cord into your mac and then into the wall -- hit print/fax -- go
Re: Favorite online Fax service? - enrico7300 - 05-29-2008
my macbook is differently gendered
Re: Favorite online Fax service? - jdc - 05-29-2008
$50 apple USB modem will fix that =)
and - enrico7300 - 05-29-2008
I'm a cheapo with no landline. I should have been more precise.
Re: Favorite online Fax service? - graylocks - 05-29-2008
Maxemail. $14.95 a year, 10 cents a page.
Re: Favorite online Fax service? - Jimmypoo - 05-29-2008
Reasonable as that is, and I'd like it, (I have no landline either -- if I did, I'd use the 16 year old Brother that sits here, waiting for a sledge hammer) - I might send 5 pages in a year, if that, which would make them $3 per page. Even with gas, it's cheaper to drive to Office Depot!
Isn't the Modem cheaper than $50? I didn't bother getting it for my MacBook, but I could always use the Pismo, I suppose.
(it's a semi valid reason for keeping it!!)
Re: Favorite online Fax service? - thermarest - 05-29-2008
I'm interested in the same thing...just for those few people who want me to fax them and still think faxing is fundamentally different than scanning and emailing.
Re: Favorite online Fax service? - Zoidberg - 05-29-2008
Most of my clients have finally gone all-scan/mail. I have two clients who still use the fax instead.
If you're not a heavy-duty fax'er, just find a friend with one and do a scan/email to him/her and say, "hey, can you print & fax this for me to .... "
I looked at the online services myself for a while a few years ago; they were just too pricey for what I needed at the time. You could get the cheapest possible landline (we have the barest-bones possible landline) and a near-free fax machine (Carnos posted about a Brother one @ Office Depot for $10 last week, IIRC).
Again, it depends on how much faxing you need to do. A few sheets a year, just do the drive-to-Kinko's bit. A few more than that, a friend who can receive your scans. A lot of faxes, get the landline/cheap fax.
I'm still waiting for a fax machine that can either hook into a cell phone or one that's sim-card capable and can be put anywhere with a power outlet. I know a handful of engineering and construction firms personally who would love such an animal for work sites.
Re: Favorite online Fax service? - vicrock - 05-29-2008
Scanning and attaching to an e-mail is cheapest.