Saturday, 22 September 2012

How Technology Created Paperless Faxing

Today, paperless faxing is widely gaining acceptance just like the email over-powering postal mail. A regular fax machine falls short when compared to the high quality characteristics of paperless faxing. Imagine how many reams of paper can be preserved on a daily basis if paperless faxing is adopted and the ordinary fax machine is abandoned in the corporate or domestic scenario.

In a year the U.S. is said to use about 200 billion pages of paper just through faxing! With such a large number of wastage of paper, a small reduction in its use can lead to large amounts of trees being saved. Also, paper does not only involve cutting of trees, but also the consumption of fuel, water and human energy during distribution of paper. So saving on paper would lead to less demand of such resources as well.

Now if an equal percentage was carried out using email faxing, energy sufficient to run the New York subway system for over two months amounting 215 kilowatt hours could be saved; 700 million gallons of water, sufficient for two days supply to Philadelphia city could be saved; six million pounds of air pollution equal to that of 500 cars in a year could be eliminated.

So, how would paperless faxing affect you? Faxing by email exhibits an edge over conventional fax machine because of its feature of allowing you to send a range of computer programs and not only content that can be put on paper. You can fax files that you use daily like MS Word, MS Excel or MS PowerPoint.

Now even using your smartphone you can send and get faxes, a trait provided by a lot of fax-to-email services. Now you do not need to find a fax machine if it is not accessible or you are not at your office or stand with the fax machine for hours for sending more than one fax. You just need a computer or a smart phone with internet facility and you can send and receive faxes instantly.

Email faxing is also secure. This is an advantage since your account is protected by a password and you can use your email account to send and receive faxes. Anti-virus systems deliver added security to the fax-to-email serves which are otherwise secure.

Paperless fax services also do not need installation and can be acquired easily through credit card payments. Signup hardly takes a minute and no phone line of extra hardware is needed. All you need to do is signup which is done in a few clicks.

An internet connection and an email account is all you need to use paperless faxing. Because everything is done online through your computer or smartphone, no issues related to hardware or phone lines or paper jams will occur leading to excellent and efficient faxing.

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