{"id":1245,"date":"2020-03-12T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T14:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efaxstg.wpengine.com\/uk\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2022-07-19T12:10:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T12:10:22","slug":"best-fax-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.efax.com\/uk\/blog\/best-fax-machines","title":{"rendered":"Best Fax Machine 2020: It\u2019s Completely Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Best Fax Machine in 2020 Isn’t a Machine<\/strong><\/p>

eFax cloud-faxing solutions provide your small business with the functionality of fax machines without actually needing old-fashioned hardware. You can replace your outdated fax machine with your current smartphones and computers, sending and receiving fax from modern devices.<\/p>

Why Is the Best Fax Machine Not a Fax Machine?<\/strong><\/p>

Fax machines as hardware are outdated. They are expensive, resource-intensive, and come complete with a series of other disadvantages that make them not just obsolete, but problematic. Replacing fax machines with digital solutions that enable fax provides your small business with an easy-to-use and effective alternative to legacy hardware.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Introducing the Best Fax Machine of 2020: Your Mobile Phone (Or Computer)<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The best fax machine of 2020 is not the hardware you are used to. Fax machines have been around\u00a0since the 19th-century<\/a>\u00a0and rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s as a way of sharing visual documents quickly. Since then, the technology behind fax machines has changed very little. However, that doesn’t mean the methods of sending fax haven’t seen any evolution. While the fax machine hasn’t changed much, digital technology has \u2014 and solutions like eFax now exist to send fax without a fax machine. Instead of a fax machine, you can now use eFax solutions to send a fax from your phone or computer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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When you compare your compact mobile phone to a fax machine, you might wonder how the two technologies could ever be transferable. Fax machines are large and bulky pieces of hardware you feed paper into, and that spit paper out \u2014 and your phone is, well, a phone.<\/p>

How does your phone (or computer) become the best fax machine for your business?<\/p>

eFax technology is available through the internet. You can access our services online via our website or through our mobile application. From either platform, you can upload visual digital documents (such as Jpegs or PDFs) and transmit them as fax files just as if you were feeding a physical document into a fax machine.<\/p>

The recipient can then see these visual files as attachments on their digital devices. Or \u2014 if your recipient uses a traditional fax machine \u2014 our system will convert the digital file into a physical one, and allow them to print it. The system also works in reverse. A customer or client can send your business a physical file from their old-fashioned fax machine. eFax solutions will then convert that file into a digital document and display it on your device as if it was uploaded as a computer file.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Why the Best Fax Machine Is on Your Phone<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDigital fax is an improvement on fax machines. Consider it the next step in fax technology \u2014 just as email improved postal mail. Digital fax offers all the benefits of faxing \u2014 including fast access to visual files, submission of legal signatures, and accurately dated correspondence. However, it also comes complete with a host of other advantages not present in traditional fax machines:\n