Question: What’s the easiest way to receive a fax if you don’t have a fax machine?
I’ve heard of fax to email but can a fax machine send to an email, how does that work?

This depends on the Fax Machine.. In today’s world most Fax machines are tied in with the copier/scanner. At my office I have a copy machine that will send email from fax, but keep in mind this is a commercial machine. At my house with my “all in one” I have to scan it and then send has a email from my computer.

email is easy way to receive if you don’t have fax machine.

The “fax to email” part is an internet fax service. You can’t really send a fax directly to any person’s email address…

When you sign up to an internet fax provider, you are given real fax number. You can give this number to your clients / friends etc and they can send you a fax from a fax machine to this number. The difference is that instead of it ringing in your house and an old fax machine answering the fax, the incoming fax is received and emailed to you as a PDF attachment.

Likewise, if you want to send an email to a fax machine, you would send the file you want to email to a specific email address that includes the destination fax number (varies with your provider, ex 4092314880@somefaxcompany.com). The attachment is then read and faxed out to the recipient’s fax machine.

I hope that makes sense — take a look at http://www.ebiztoolkit.com/internet-fax.html for more info on internet fax services if you need a little more of an explanation.

the fax to email is a service that you get from a company… you are provided with an actual fax number, that when someone faxes you it gets forwarded to your email address as an attachment, usually a PDF file… that you can then print out…

for outgoing faxes, you would scan a document in PDF, or other compatible format with your e-fax provider, then sent it as an attachment in an email to a special formatted email address…

at my company, to send an e-fax to 212-555-1212 we would just email a PDF file as an attachment to 2125551212@fax.send2fax.com then it would be sent to the fax machine as a regular fax…

but the easiest way… the way that i do things, because the volume of faxes that i deal with, i just go to staples, and pay the or so to send or receive faxes…

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