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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

As a small business dealing with some government bureaus (or a CPA) a FAX is sometimes just a necessary part of the the year 2020 business. Faxes have been around for over 140 years. Really, look it up.

My business is run from my home, and I have had a laser printer since the HP Laser Jet II of the 1980s. Currently I have a Dell E525w that is compact, and it is a color laser (not inkjet) printer, scanner, copier, and fax. It was darn cheap, and replacement toner cartridges last over a year, and are less than 25 bucks for the CMYK set. It prints great color or B&W and I can fax. It is even an Apple print ready printer so my wife can print from her iPad with ease.

I don't have a conventional land line. I do have a OOMA box that I bought, and hook up to my network. Instant VoIP phone service and we kept the old land line that my wife insists we keep. (Happy wife = happy life) and the phone line is $4 per month now.

Anyway, all I have to do is unplug the normal handset from the OOMA and plug in the Fax line, and send or receive a fax no issue.

Overall it is a great setup and very inexpensive. When the entire set of cartridges is cheaper than the little inkjet cartridges that dry up and go bad in short order. Toner never dries out.

The OOMA box must be doing the trick. My reading on the subject indicates trying to send a fax over a VOIP phone line is not reliable. For example if I hooked a standard manual fax machine to the phone connection on the back of my cable modem it would not work reliably. This is why unless you have an old standard phone line you have to use a "service". Does this OOMA box solve this issue?