mercredi 29 juillet 2009

Efax Review - What You Need to Know

By Santos Frazier

Introduction:

With the coming of digital faxing, the entire scenario in fax transmission technology has changed. High speed Internet faxing is a reality now, and has introduced many changes in the way a business organization communicates with others, speeding up the work-flow to a great extent. It is a paperless world today, and digital faxing technology has done away with fax machines and printed paper, making an organization more efficient.



Internet faxing does not require a great deal of skill, and you need not have any special knowledge to use the service. Internet faxing enables you to receive and send faxes over the Internet. The faxes that you send are first converted into digital formats and then transmitted to the concerned people, who receive the fax as an attachment to his email or in the body of the email itself.

Internet faxing has quite a few attractive advantages which include -

Lower costs. Reliability in service. Mobility and Accessibility. Easy management.

The traditional fax machines (analog) that we know of have many disadvantages associated with them. These machines often have paper jamming problems, telephone line disturbances, phone line costs, fax machine maintenance cost, paper and printing cost, and more. Internet faxing does away with all that guarantees a smoother and clearer transmission.

To find the most suited solution regarding Fax sending, it is worthwhile doing a little research.

Where to find Internet fax software and services?

If you search the Internet, you would find several service providers offering Internet faxing. You may find services which are free with a condition that the front page of the fax received would have an ad from the sponsors.

There are various such services available and most of these service providers offer you with 30 days trials, during which time you can test drive each of the services and select one for your continued use.

You may also come across free fax services as you browse the Internet, but these services are not suitable if you are looking for faxing for business purposes. These services have limited capabilities and do not provide the enhanced features as required by business organizations.

In providing you with a free faxing facility the service providers would have their sponsors ads displayed on the front page of the fax transmission received which is really not suitable in a business environment. Furthemore, free fax services do not guarantee immediate delivery of your faxes, which could have an adverse effect on your business.

How does it work?

Internet fax services are accessible from any computer anywhere in the world. The computer must have the access to the Internet. All you need to do is log-in to your account and start using the fax service. You can open your email inbox to find if any faxes are lying there for you.

Internet fax services also provide you with information about the status of the fax that you have already sent. It would inform you if the fax has been delivered and at what time. If the delivery is unsuccessful the service would let you know, mentioning the reason why it was not delivered. Further, if the fax you sent is waiting in the queue, you would be informed regarding its status.

The fax received is usually delivered to you in the form of an email attachment, and also could also be delivered to a G3 fax machine after converting the digital fax data into a G3 fax format. There are some distinct characteristics offered by Internet faxing and these include:

Sending of faxes. Routing incoming faxes. Filing of sent faxes.

There are two stages involved in Internet faxing and these are:

Negotiation:

This takes place in order to determine whether the sent fax can be delivered to the said destination.

Delivery confirmation:

As and when the fax is delivered the system awaits to ascertain that the recipient has received the document and it has been processed.

The detailed status of the transmission is also made available to you as a sender of the fax, and also all the error message report, if any, would be generated for your knowledge.

Summary:

Internet faxing utilizes digital faxing technology to receive and send faxes. It is also known as "online faxing" which is the general term used for sending and receiving faxes over the Internet. Internet faxing provides cost benefit to the user eliminating expensive fax machines and introducing paperless communication, integrated with email.

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