If you’ve moved away from fax machines what have you replaced it with?
Does anyone still use fax machines?
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If you’ve moved away from fax machines what have you replaced it with?
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We still use a fax machine, according to HIPAA, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, medical offices can fax but using email can be a no no…
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we stop using our fax machine 8 years ago. We now use Efax and love it because it delivers the fax directly to your email as a PDF
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I used to scan, convert to PDF and then email, but now that phone cameras are higher fidelity, I can just take a close-up picture of the document and email it to someone directly from my phone. That’s even how my company’s expense reporting works. You take a picture of your receipts and then upload them directly into the payroll/time/expense website.
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So, you do that with every ten or twenty page document? That’s impressive.
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We had the perfect solution then HIPAA got in the way. We have a Xerox copier scanner which also easily emails the scanned (even high res photos) images to you. It was awesome. I could take a stack of 60 photos and in two minutes have a 60 page pdf which contained the 60 jpgs.
Then either HIPAA disallowed us or someone forgot to pay the bill and the email ability disappeared.
Stand alone FAX machines I think have gone the way of sniffing mimeo paper. You can get a cheap printer that also scans then email. That last time someone had to FAX something to me because they could not attach it to email was maybe four years ago.
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Scanners.
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I sometimes use the fax, but more people want me to email a pdf to them.
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There was a fascinating NY Times story 2 months ago (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/world/asia/in-japan-the-fax-machine-is-anything-but-a-relic.html?_r=0) about how the Japanese have clung to using fax, the old glossy paper kind no less!
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Thermo paper, which degraded about a month after printing. No trail.
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Digital dominates every part of the TV and film business today except one place–contracts. Production, talent, distribution…the agreements can still only be snail-mailed hard copies, or faxes. That’s why my 12-year old Panasonic fax machine still sits around my office, even when an encrypted PDF would look a lot better
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I use the fax often because the printer/scanner is not always dependable……..
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At a meeting I attended recently, What is the best mode of announce/contact was one question. Answer was the fax. It has to be actually discarded. Not just deleted. Likely people will pick it up and read, with a bigger chance to pass it on to others or leave on the Mug-up table.
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