Question by vijayan u nair: how to receive fax on computer using samsung sf 331p series?
i have Samsung SF-331P series all in one fax machine. i want to connect it to computer to get auto fax on system. please guide me for the necessary software required for this purpose.

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Answer by Ema Craner
Online fax service allows you to send fax from your PC or through your fax machine. You can subscribe the service from a provider. All the necessary software requirements and online fax number are included.

Answer by savvyITsteve
Your samsung manual should explain how to setup faxing on your device. However using fax machines to send and receive faxes is costly and rather outdated. There is a much better solution these days: Internet Faxing.

The benefits are:
Environmentally Friendly – Traditional fax machines require a lot of ink and paper. Even if there is a problem with the fax, a transmission sheet is usually printed telling you what went wrong. With internet faxing everything is via email – event notifications and logs. Also no more printing of Spam Faxes.

Lower Costs – All you pay for Internet Faxing is the monthly fee plus any overage costs if you send/receive more faxes than your package allows. With a traditional fax machine you need: The fax machine, ink, paper, phone line with rental charges, maintenance costs for the fax machine.

Convenience – You are not tied to the fax machine to send and receive faxes. Wherever you can send or receive emails you can also send / receive faxes. That includes to your PDA, at an internet cafe, at a friends house on there home PC or anywhere else.

Easy Distribution – Most Internet Fax providers allow you to setup multiple email addresses to recieve faxes to. So you can get the faxes to everyone involved at the same time with no additional effort.

Always On – Internet Faxes are never busy. Therefore you customers will always be able to send you faxes on the first go – unless their old-fashioned fax machines have a problem of course!

Security – Most providers support powerful encryption techniques and password protection of faxes. Add this to the fact that they are delivered to your email rather than lying around on a fax machine that anyone can access.

Easy Monitoring – You can view logs of what, when and where faxes are sent and received at any time online.

I personally use eFax. They are the largest provider with a huge coverage and are very reliable. You can sign up for their 30 day free trial here:

http://home.efax.com/s/r/efax-brand11?VID=36258&TYPE=300087

If internet faxing sounds like a good solution for you but you want to shop around and find a package that best suite you then I also recommend this website:

http://www.savvyitsolutions.com/if/if-comp.html

They compare the leading fax providers in a side-by-side table and have great in-depth reviews on each one.

Hope this helps.

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