Thursday, January 29, 2009

Internet Faxing with Myfax: A Great Substitute to a Fax Machine

By Caressa Waechter

Everyone knows that a fax machine is a very efficient method of sending documents from one person to another. They allow for fast, quick, and convenient communication via phone lines. However, owning a fax machine is not for everyone.

It can be real nuisance to own a fax machine. If you want the machine to be able to receive faxes at all times, then it needs it own phone line, which can be expensive. Then you need a place to put the machine itself, and there are maintenance issues you get to deal with. Most people just don't want to have to deal with the issues that come along with owning a fax machine.

If you need to send and receive faxes, but would rather not deal with owning a fax machine, there is a solution for you. You can use an online faxing service that allows you to send and receive faxes as if you had a fax machine, without the need to actually own the machine itself, or pay for a dedicated fax phone line. The Internet is used to send and receive your faxes, and you get your very own local, or toll free, fax number to use.

Myfax is one of the better companies that offers an online faxing solution. Myfax offers a service that brings full fax capabilities to any computer that has access online. Faxes are received via the myfax online interface, our via email. And sending faxes is done via the same online interface, via email, or through popular software programs.

Online faxing with the myfax service is very cost affective, with service starting at under $10 per month. You have the choice of having either a toll free or local fax number which is used to receive faxes, and any computer connected to the Internet can be used to send faxes.

With multiple fax plans to choose from, myfax has an online faxing plan to fit the needs of everyone. And if you end up sending or receiving more pages that what is allocated by your plan, they offer reasonable priced additional pages.

There is one downside to the myfax online faxing service, which is the inability to sign or edit faxes online. This allows you to make changes to fax documents without needing to print them, and is a service that is offered by some of their competition.

If you can't quite warrant purchasing a fax machine, but you need to have the ability to send and receive faxes, myfax might be what you are looking for. With their free, 30-day trial, you can give myfax a try and see if online faxing is going to work for you.

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