Fax Chronicle

I’ve done this many times. Although I now have a beautiful multi-function device with wireless networking from Brother, this is still a quick way to send facsimile of a document to someone that needs it if a fax machine is not available. Just attach the image to an email and you have an even better image of the document than that that a fax could provide.

» Your digital camera: A poor man’s fax machine? Why not? | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com

So, when this IT services outfit asked for a fax and I said I didn’t have a fax machine, the person I was dealing with said “How about a scanner?” Nope. Don’t have one of those either. But then it occurred to me that as far as PCs go, scanners are no different than digital cameras. They’re both imaging devices! So, I asked the guy “How about if I take a digital photograph and send that to you?” Via e-mail, he wrote “The standard way customers return order forms is either by faxing, or emailing scanned copies. I checked with our compliance team and they said they would review the digital photograph, but there is a high probability that we will still need a fax copy.”