12th March 2010, 5:20 AM
How many office fax machines can RECIEVE over ethernet though? I've never even seen one that does that myself, the few people I know who own one use a phone line for it, and thus would be unreachable by your method.
Oh, and you don't even need a professional super expensive scanner to do it. All you need is the software. Install scanner, install the right software, and you can literally do the same two steps to send "faxes" via e-mail. On the other end, they can set up software to instantly print, OR, they could just store it digitally, it's up to them.
There's no point in dedicated fax technology. It's nice that there's some pseudo fax machines that use the internet, but those are completely incompatible with the fax machines the majority of people out there are using, which use phone lines.
If some businesses "require" faxes, it's only because they set their businesses up in an inefficient way, or are forced to have one to stay compatible with other businesses that still use outdated technology.
Oh, and you don't even need a professional super expensive scanner to do it. All you need is the software. Install scanner, install the right software, and you can literally do the same two steps to send "faxes" via e-mail. On the other end, they can set up software to instantly print, OR, they could just store it digitally, it's up to them.
There's no point in dedicated fax technology. It's nice that there's some pseudo fax machines that use the internet, but those are completely incompatible with the fax machines the majority of people out there are using, which use phone lines.
If some businesses "require" faxes, it's only because they set their businesses up in an inefficient way, or are forced to have one to stay compatible with other businesses that still use outdated technology.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)