How to Send a Fax Without a Fax Machine: 4 Steps

How to Send a Fax Without a Fax Machine: 4 Steps

Do you fax only few pages per month but it does not justify having a dedicated fax machine and fax line plus the monthly host of having a line? Here is how to eliminate (that's right, eliminate!) costly monthly phone lines and per fax charges.

Steps

1. Things you will need:

• Computer (with any operating system such as Windows, Mac, Linux, Ubuntu)
• Internet connection
• A free email account (such as "Gmail", or Yahoo Mail), and
• If your documents you want to fax is not electronic, you need a scanner. Preferably an All-In-One Printer that has a scanner/printer/fax machine. All-In-One Printer probably gives you best value for your investment.

2. Choose an online free fax service such as "SendFreeFax". Those online fax services deliver fax without a fax machine.

3. Enter fax destination information: Enter destination fax number and your email. This email is used to send a email when fax is initiated submitted to the server and get delivery confirmation when the fax sent to the destination. Upload your fax document in PDF or Word (DOC) format. Click submit and next screen will tell the status of fax submission.

4. Check your email account to the status of your fax.

Tips

• You may want to convert the scanned image into a PDF file or you may want to edit the document with Photoshop or other photo editing software
• If you do not have or do not want to purchase an All-In-One Printer, use a digital camera on a tripod or fixed stand for blur free photo of the document need to fax. Use macro setting of the digital camera to get shape close up images.
• When scanning a document, you want to make sure to scan it at a resolution of 300 and at Letter size.
• You might want to send free SMS to let your friends/co-workers know that you are about to fax a document before you start faxing it.

Warnings

• Do you use free internet faxing to spam or abuse recipient or your account or computer will be permanently blocked from using fax.