Fax to email

On 8/9/2011 6:08 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:13:14 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

On 09/08/2011 4:01 PM, James Silverton wrote:
In my previous machine, using Windows XP, I had a Fax Modem, which was
occasionally useful. Do such things work under Windows 7? I have to
admit that I have not needed to send or receive a fax in the past 8
months but I still have the old machine and I suppose I could remember
how to fax.

Sure, why not? Fax modems as devices are still supported in Win7, all
you would need is a fax software to encode and decode them.


I guess I'm in the minority, but it boggles my mind why these days
there are still fax machines, fax modems, fax software, etc. Doesn't
almost everyone have e-mail and a scanner?

Boggles mine too. I think the biggest stumbling block is the same one that causes
digital document storage and retrieval to be looked on as a tad risky.

There is the perception that faxed documents could not possibly be altered, while
digital ones are fiddled with very easily.

Old ideas (right or wrong) die hard in the ultra conservative business world.

Mike

On 12/08/2011 15:31, Mikey wrote:
On 8/9/2011 6:08 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:13:14 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

On 09/08/2011 4:01 PM, James Silverton wrote:
In my previous machine, using Windows XP, I had a Fax Modem, which was
occasionally useful. Do such things work under Windows 7? I have to
admit that I have not needed to send or receive a fax in the past 8
months but I still have the old machine and I suppose I could remember
how to fax.

Sure, why not? Fax modems as devices are still supported in Win7, all
you would need is a fax software to encode and decode them.


I guess I'm in the minority, but it boggles my mind why these days
there are still fax machines, fax modems, fax software, etc. Doesn't
almost everyone have e-mail and a scanner?

Boggles mine too. I think the biggest stumbling block is the same one
that causes digital document storage and retrieval to be looked on as a
tad risky.

There is the perception that faxed documents could not possibly be
altered, while digital ones are fiddled with very easily.

Old ideas (right or wrong) die hard in the ultra conservative business
world.

Mike

And yet over ten years ago, a very large multinational Merchant Bank had
ALL their documents scanned in and stored on servers owned and run by
the company I worked for....

On 8/12/2011 10:31 AM, Mikey wrote:
On 8/9/2011 6:08 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:13:14 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

On 09/08/2011 4:01 PM, James Silverton wrote:
In my previous machine, using Windows XP, I had a Fax Modem, which was
occasionally useful. Do such things work under Windows 7? I have to
admit that I have not needed to send or receive a fax in the past 8
months but I still have the old machine and I suppose I could remember
how to fax.

Sure, why not? Fax modems as devices are still supported in Win7, all
you would need is a fax software to encode and decode them.


I guess I'm in the minority, but it boggles my mind why these days
there are still fax machines, fax modems, fax software, etc. Doesn't
almost everyone have e-mail and a scanner?

Boggles mine too. I think the biggest stumbling block is the same one
that causes digital document storage and retrieval to be looked on as a
tad risky.

There is the perception that faxed documents could not possibly be
altered, while digital ones are fiddled with very easily.

Old ideas (right or wrong) die hard in the ultra conservative business
world.

Mike

Actually some versions (Win 7 Prof. as an example) have fax support. The
problem can be that an older model internal Fax modem may not have win 7
compatible drivers. Another gotcha with external fax modems is that most
used a serial port, which seems to be fast disappearing.

The fax modem I currently use is part of a networked Epson all in one.
Send Fax is supported, however received fax is always printed.
You can then scan and store the received fax. This avoids the many
problems we used to have in getting a P/C based fax modem to reliably
receive faxes.

Some USR internal modems that worked with XP don't with Win7.
Seems there was a firmware update and who knows what else.
(I have one of these brand new in a box somewhere.)

On 8/13/2011 10:25 AM, charlie wrote:
On 8/12/2011 10:31 AM, Mikey wrote:
On 8/9/2011 6:08 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:13:14 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

On 09/08/2011 4:01 PM, James Silverton wrote:
In my previous machine, using Windows XP, I had a Fax Modem, which was
occasionally useful. Do such things work under Windows 7? I have to
admit that I have not needed to send or receive a fax in the past 8
months but I still have the old machine and I suppose I could remember
how to fax.

Sure, why not? Fax modems as devices are still supported in Win7, all
you would need is a fax software to encode and decode them.


I guess I'm in the minority, but it boggles my mind why these days
there are still fax machines, fax modems, fax software, etc. Doesn't
almost everyone have e-mail and a scanner?

Boggles mine too. I think the biggest stumbling block is the same one
that causes digital document storage and retrieval to be looked on as a
tad risky.

There is the perception that faxed documents could not possibly be
altered, while digital ones are fiddled with very easily.

Old ideas (right or wrong) die hard in the ultra conservative business
world.

Mike

Actually some versions (Win 7 Prof. as an example) have fax support. The
problem can be that an older model internal Fax modem may not have win 7
compatible drivers. Another gotcha with external fax modems is that most
used a serial port, which seems to be fast disappearing.

The fax modem I currently use is part of a networked Epson all in one.
Send Fax is supported, however received fax is always printed.
You can then scan and store the received fax. This avoids the many
problems we used to have in getting a P/C based fax modem to reliably
receive faxes.

Some USR internal modems that worked with XP don't with Win7.
Seems there was a firmware update and who knows what else.
(I have one of these brand new in a box somewhere.)

Take a look at my other reply in this thread. The modem I bought was
only $15 plus $2 shipping, plus tax. It works easily with W7. And, I
know there are others out there. If you have a dedicated line that you
are willing to use for Fax, the all-in-one printer/scanner/fax is
probably a good thing. In my case, I have only one land line. So, it
gives me the option, when the phone rings, to answer as a fax. Plus I
just keep the fax on the computer and only print it when I have to.
When you only receive maybe 2 faxes per year, that works well for me. I
do send out more faxes than I receive, usually to doctors or medical
insurance companies.