How Can I Fax With No Home Phone?

[gshase]

I know someone can answer this question. If we pull the plug on the home phone, can we use Magic Jack or Ouma or something else and still send and receive faxes on a fax/printer?

[cashflyer]

Use the interwebz.
MyFax | Send & Receive Faxes Online | Internet Fax Service

Many fax machines are not compatible with the VOIP boxes.

[89911]

Its available for free to gmail users.

Google Fax now available for users of Gmail

[scottmandue]

I was going to say...

Last time I was faxing out resumes (about ten years ago) I could do it with Microsoft word.

As far as receiving a FAX... almost any document can be scanned and attached to an email as a PDF, DOC , ot TXT.

[kaisen]

I've been using MyFax for business for the last five years and it works wonderfully. $10/month.

[red-beard]

I've been usinf Efax.com for about 7 years

[spuggy]

Originally Posted by gshase

If we pull the plug on the home phone, can we use Magic Jack or Ouma or something else and still send and receive faxes on a fax/printer?

ObiHai SIP box. One off purchase ($40-70, depending on model) from Amazon, make/receive phone calls via Google Voice (and/or any SIP provider you like) thereafter. Free US calling with GV. Works with fax, if you need to (my printer has a built-in one, sometimes the send report is useful - if folks are still using 20th century technology like that).

As a bonus, you can port your existing phone #'s (even Vonage/land lines, via a mobile #) to Google Voice, and don't even need to tell anyone they changed. And you can have multiple/all your phones ring when that # does. Or not. Or only at set times. Or only when folks in your contact list call you, others get screened/voicemail. Whatever

As much as I love smartphones, there's just no comparison in call quality between a Plantronics CT14 plugged into the ObiHai and any of the mobile phones I've owned in the last 7 years. Even the Plantronics wired headset plugged directly into a smartphone (vastly better than any bluetooth) isn't nearly as good...

Google Voice has a few hiccups from time to time in comparison to Vonage. But there's no monthly $35 bill either.

[gshase]

I do not want to send fax through internet. I want a hard copy straight from fax machine through some type of phone line. I don't want to have to scan then log on to computer and then go through gmail or other internet. What system should I use that won't cost me $20 a month. Maybe OOMA or Magic Jack Plus?

[KaptKaos]

How often do you need to do this?

If you have an iPad, take a picture of the document and email it. Will that work?

[KaptKaos]

Originally Posted by spuggy

ObiHai SIP box. One off purchase ($40-70, depending on model) from Amazon, make/receive phone calls via Google Voice (and/or any SIP provider you like) thereafter. Free US calling with GV.

So for $40, I can add that box to my LAN and use an Analog phone with my google voice service? That right?

I wonder if it supports pulse dialing out. LOL Don't ask.

[spuggy]

Originally Posted by gshase

I do not want to send fax through internet.

LOL. What, exactly, do you think Ouma or Magic Jack are? They're cut down or proprietary SIP devices with a dumbed down interface/features.

Not only do they (like all SIP, VoIP devices) require the internet, at least some models of the last one require you to have a computer connected to use it at all (other models just plug into an internet router).

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Why on earth does anyone need to fax anything anymore? Scan/email means you have a record that's easy to file, secure (can be encrypted/pw protected/locked) and no paper. I haven't bothered with a fax in maybe two or three years. Does anyone (other than for prescriptions, and the HC system is hopelessly backwards) actually still use these regularly in the business world?

[gshase]

Thanks!!!!
I know you can scan an application with signature and then email it, but it so easy to just put under the glass type phone number and say send. Several agencies I work with only supplied fax numbers not email addresses.

[RANDY P]

efax n cheap scanner

[dondarnell]

I haven't used a fax machine at my law office for three years. We use a service that we send receive faxes by email / but even that's getting rare. It's nice that some dick can't jam up my fax with a 100 page doc - its just an email that prints to my copier, that bills my client $.11 a page.

[spuggy]

Originally Posted by gshase

Thanks!!!!
I know you can scan an application with signature and then email it, but it so easy to just put under the glass type phone number and say send. Several agencies I work with only supplied fax numbers not email addresses.

Buy an all-in-one printer. My $180 Samsung laser is a scanner/copier/fax machine as well. ADF scan to USB on the front panel takes care of almost everything I need - but for things like insurance companies that insist on a fax (which IME they'll later claim was incomplete in order to deny in any case, because they're lying thieves) I just dig out the RJ12 cable and string it to the POTS jack on the ObiHai and send a fax.

Just no need to pay an electronic fax service anything per month. Especially if you have no need for INCOMING faxes at all (or can hook it up for 10 minutes when they send it). Or, just buy a SIP device with two POTS ports and dedicate a line to the fax.