Fax From Computer
by Matt Gerchow
The ability to send a fax from computer work stations will soon make the old-fashioned facsimile machine obsolescent. Once these machines were vital to business operations.
The internet is turning them into dinosaurs, as it has done with many other technologies that were once basic to office spaces. The process in sending a fax from computer to computer or computer to fax machine is very simple.
It begins when your computer accesses the internet with your fax order ready. The computer contacts a fax gateway online.
At this gateway, the data regarding the fax is turned into information that can pass through a phone line. Then it travels to a computer or a fax.
Upon arrival at a computer, a facsimile lands in an email account. When such a fax arrives at an old-fashioned facsimile machine, it prints out just as you would expect a fax to print.
One crucial difference involved in faxing to a computer is the inherent confidentiality. Old faxes arrived physically and could be handled or viewed by anyone on the receiving end.
A fax that arrives at a computer is stored in an email account, where only the intended audience can see it. It is also possible to send a fax from a facsimile machine to a computer.
After typing in the correct number, the machine sends the document data through a phone line where it reaches a fax gateway. here the data is converted into an email and sent to the computer destination.
This new technology saves businesses both space and money. There is no need for a facsimile machine to clutter up the office anymore.
The work can be done from a computer. Since businesses now have fax from computer capabilities, they no longer need to pay for extra phone lines or machine repairs.
The internet is turning them into dinosaurs, as it has done with many other technologies that were once basic to office spaces. The process in sending a fax from computer to computer or computer to fax machine is very simple.
It begins when your computer accesses the internet with your fax order ready. The computer contacts a fax gateway online.
At this gateway, the data regarding the fax is turned into information that can pass through a phone line. Then it travels to a computer or a fax.
Upon arrival at a computer, a facsimile lands in an email account. When such a fax arrives at an old-fashioned facsimile machine, it prints out just as you would expect a fax to print.
One crucial difference involved in faxing to a computer is the inherent confidentiality. Old faxes arrived physically and could be handled or viewed by anyone on the receiving end.
A fax that arrives at a computer is stored in an email account, where only the intended audience can see it. It is also possible to send a fax from a facsimile machine to a computer.
After typing in the correct number, the machine sends the document data through a phone line where it reaches a fax gateway. here the data is converted into an email and sent to the computer destination.
This new technology saves businesses both space and money. There is no need for a facsimile machine to clutter up the office anymore.
The work can be done from a computer. Since businesses now have fax from computer capabilities, they no longer need to pay for extra phone lines or machine repairs.