Fax (via email) help please

[GIXser]

yo.. im trying to achieve sending faxes from my pc to stand alone fax machines in nz, (to my clients,)
im not that pc savvy, and i have looked online but its driving me nuts, to mucho info,
does anyone know of a good program that easy to use and easy to set up..

mucho appreciatted

[Sanx]

im not that pc savvy

No. Really?

Windows has built-in fax functionality you can use. It's pretty simple, but will probably do the job for you. Gimme a call dude - I'll talk you through setting it up.

[GIXser]

No. Really?

Windows has built-in fax functionality you can use. It's pretty simple, but will probably do the job for you. Gimme a call dude - I'll talk you through setting it up.

hey ya num nuts ya dont reply to ya emails..
thought ya dissappeared i was hoping anyways...
will call ya soon

[CookMySock]

I didn't think you could send faxes to dedicated fax machines over email ? Unless there is some gateway on the Internet to do it.

You could just scan and email it, but it will end up in their email inbox, not their fax machine.

Sorry, I'm not much help.

Steve

[kickingzebra]

most photocopiers have a utility bundles that does the same job, when hitting print, you choose the fax option instead of print option, and then choose numbers from phonebook, hey presto, bulk, legal fax spam!!

[davereid]

I kept on getting a lot of fax-spam, from an Auckland company that gave an 0800 order fax number, but an 0900 opt-me out number.

I faxed them asking them to stop, (being to tight to ring the 0900 number), but they ignored me.

Eventually I made a fax which said in tiny writing in the middle of a very black page "Please stop faxing me advertising, it ties up my phone line and wastes my toner, and paper."

I left the pc going all night, faxing hundreds of copies of the note to them.

It seems to have cured the problem.

[Virago]

Yep, that's the way to do it, when they give an 0800 fax number.

Spam faxes annoy the shit out of me. These wankers force you to pay for the paper and ink to print their shitty advertising.

If there is an 0800 number to fax back to, I will write "SPAM" across the fax, and fax it back to them over and over and over...

Alas, most hide behind careful anonymity, even blocking Caller ID.

Time-share outfits and Work-from-home scammers are the most common. Absolute scum the lot of them.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

The way our work fax is set up is set up, we scan to a PDF file and simply email the PDF (the fax can also send the email as well)

Our faxes come in and then get sent to the PC to preset folder (and I have a folder watching software so I know when a fax comes in and where we can view and only print the ones we want (over a period of time this alone has saved $$$)

One way to stop the spam faxes in an 0800 is is to do a fax loop tape maybe 7 or 8 sheets together... as its feeding through tape the two ends together... it will continusly loop till you stop it (or it jams) I did it for an hour once... never recieved another fax from them again and tied up there fax for the hour... and wasted lord knows how much of their paper and toner at the other end...

Sending faxes via the pc or the standard old fashioned way, Windows comes with WinFAX (i think its called) that can be used just as a printer driver and prints to fax instead of your printer.

[geoffm]

If they have a voice number, especially an 0800 one, just send you fax to dial there, repeatedly, forever. Put 0197 in front of the number to suppress caller ID.
Nothing like having their phoen ring non-stop with afax tone everytime they pick up to give them a message...

Geoff

[Mom]

You can do a fax merge out of access or excell. I used to be one of those senders of spam faxs in a previous life time. Used to set the PC up just before 5pm to send to my database, and get to work at 8am the next day to watch the last 20 or so faxes go.

These were not really spam though, targetted recipients promoting a product we manufactured and sold. All our contact details were on my faxes, so I did get few calls from people saying they did not want to receive them. Interestingly enough these type of calls came from architects that worked from home and their fax would ring at some godforsaken hour in the night and disturb their peace. Fair enough, I would be pissed off too. Each time I got a complaint I either transferred their details to a day time only database, or if they asked removed them completely. Every complainant got a free family entry to Waiwera hot pools in an attempt to make it up to them.

The overseas junk faxes are the ones that get me though, my last job had a dedicated fax number, but had several other "fax" numbers that diverted to the main line, that I was unable to transfer to the fax machine....REDIAL as a recipient sucks!!! My boss caught me one day saying rather loudly "FUCK OFF" and hanging up the receiver rather forcefully after picking up the phone to answer nicely to a customer... and was not that impressed to be fair. I told him if he spent more time in the place he would understand why...

He did, and he did!

[YellowDog]

www.efax.com offer a service via email but if you only need to send and your calls will be local, you can fax all your clients using the standard Fax built into Windows.

1. Install Fax Printer Driver
2. Open Document to Fax
3. Click on 'File' Menu and select 'Print'
4. Select 'Fax' in Printer List
5. Enter Fax number or list of contacts

Good luck.