Nowadays you can finally say bye-bye to the bulky traditional fax machine and enjoy the many advantages of integrating Internet faxing in your life and in your business. Internet faxing solutions have really taken existing technology and given it a much needed boost that translates into more effective communications, clearer documents and a great reduction of costs involved in traditional faxing.
When it comes to sending a fax via Internet, you have basically two alternatives: using faxing software or an Internet fax service. Fax software has been here quite some time, while services are more recent and are an effort in making faxing something very similar to a web-based email service such as the ones offered by Gmail or Hotmail. They have pretty much succeeded acquiring a big user base that is increasing every year.
A great part of the faxing services’ appeal is that they are easy to use when you keep in mind portability and web-access and also because they offer clients a free trial that lasts as long as 30 days. I think this is the best option to send a fax via Internet, not only because of the reasons mentioned but also because these companies offer you an Internet fax number free of charge, so you finally can get rid of the expensive dedicated fax line!
Among the companies that offer these types of services are MyFax, Ringcentral Fax, Rapidfax and eFax among others. Sending a fax with these companies is pretty similar to sending an e-mail. You use your e-mail client program and compose a new message with the address formatted as the fax company indicates. The actual document you will fax will be added to the e-mail as an attachment, and this attachment will be converted to a format readable by both traditional fax machines and computers! You won’t have to do anything else.
As you can see sending a fax via Web is incredibly easy and if you know how to send email, you know how to fax online.