Favorite online Fax service?

[enrico7300]

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

[jdc]

plug a phone cord into your mac and then into the wall -- hit print/fax -- go

[enrico7300]

my macbook is differently gendered

[jdc]

$50 apple USB modem will fix that =)

[enrico7300]

I'm a cheapo with no landline. I should have been more precise.

[graylocks]

Maxemail. $14.95 a year, 10 cents a page.

[Jimmypoo]

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!!)

[thermarest]

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.

[Zoidberg]

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.

[vicrock]

Scanning and attaching to an e-mail is cheapest.