Fax to Email or Internet Faxing service is known by many different names. It is called E fax, email fax, digital fax, and online fax. Internet fax uses a service provider that connects to a given location. This provider actually gives a facsimile transmission to the receiver. It converts the traditional fax into a digital file that can then be received and sent through email.
Sending and receiving messages had evolved from the days of sending birds with notes tied to their legs to sending information through pipes. Thanks to technology, making phone calls made life a lot easier and the creation of mobile phones made it possible to send text messages and picture messages. The introduction of postal services carrying on the burden of sending these messages introduced another possibility of sending messages without us traveling long distance to send messages though “Time” poses threat to this service. With the aid of technology, information is being sent real-time, with emails, text messages, on line messengers and a list of others. Sending hard copy messages has not really evolved until lately with the introduction of internet fax.
Advantages of an Internet Faxing Service:
An Internet faxing service bridges the gap left between traditional fax machines and internet email. It allows the user and the sender to do both – to scan documents and fax traditionally, or convert them to digital files so that they can be emailed to someone digitally. The creation of fax machines aided sending hard copy information but both sender and receiver had to have a fax line with a fax machine to receive these messages.
Limitations of Traditional Fax Services:
The fax machine has its limitations too and some are; the fax machine needs a separate space for the machine, needs a telephone line, needs power/electricity, requires paper for receiving and sending faxes, the fax machine needs to be on always to receive faxes. If the machine is off, we may lose the faxes, large probability of losing faxes, which could potentially be important, Storage and Archival of these Printed Paper Faxes are very cumbersome. They’ll need a good amount of space in the office; Aging of papers could lead to difficulties in managing records. These flaws are what the email-fax tends to address.
Email to Fax and Fax to Email services by GOFAXGO:
The limitations of traditional fax machines have been researched and solutions have emerged. GOFAXGO renders these internet fax services in which faxes can be sent in forms of emails reducing the use of paper and paper redundancy, having several fax machines, having to lose faxes and a list of others. These forms of mails/fax are called web fax, email fax, internet fax and a list of other names
When you sign up for Internet fax services, you’ll be given a fax number, which means that your clients or other people can fax you with that number in the traditional way, from a fax machine or other type of service. The phone number will convert the incoming faxes directly to you in digital files that will then be sent to your email inbox. That allows for you to get your faxes on your computer, where you can manipulate the files, print them out, or do whatever you would like to do with them.
You can also send attachments, in any type of format (like Word Documents, Acrobat PDF files and even pictures) to actual fax numbers, where the receiver will be able to get them in their fax machine or at their computer if they have a type of fax service as well. This allows for both you and those that you communicate with, to use faxes to the exact needs that you might have.
Gofaxgo provides you with just one fax number however with our system you can receive several faxes simultaneously on your fax number thereby eliminating busy signals on your fax line.