Faxes

For fax machines, your options vary considerably, depending on what your particular situation is and what equipment you have.  Faxing will change considerably in the next ten years, so while you may have few of these now, you will have many more in future.

One annoying problem is faxing duplexed originals.  Most fax machines are designed with the idea that all originals have content only on one side of each sheet of paper.  In fact, no regular fax machine has a document feeder that turns over the original to scan the back side, or has two scanners to scan both sides at once.  The way that a fax machine can help out is to support "Duplex Faxing".  This is the ability to scan one side, then have the stack of originals turned over by the user and moved to the feeder again for a second scanning. It also requires that the fax machine change the order of the pages before sending them out.

Only four fax models are known to support duplex faxing, all made by Sharp. They are the models FO-6600, FO-6550, FO-5600, and FO-5506.

A recent development in the imaging industry is the medium-speed Multi-Function Device based on a printer or copier.  Many of these support faxing with many options such as duplex faxing and 2-in-1 printing of incoming faxes.

Auto-reduce on send or recieve, to account for non-standard paper (e.g. A4 or legal).

Avoid thermal fax machines as the resulting output is often copied onto regular paper and so increases paper use and imaging.

Individual fax confirmation sheets can be replaced by a fax summary that records many transactions on one sheet.  Small "Post-it"® notes can include the sender and recipient information to communicate the content of the cover sheet without the extra image. 
 

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