Save Paper with Online Faxing

If you are someone that cares a lot about the green revolution, and doing what we can to be more efficient in our use of the resources of our planet, you’ll be very interested to learn that online faxing services actually help reduce the use of paper. Traditional faxing methods use a lot of paper, because the whole process is in essence a paper based process. The sender has to get the material in paper form, and load the paper into the fax machine; on the other end the recipient of the fax has to load the machine with paper so that the fax machine can print out the fax onto the paper. In fact it’s a very wasteful system, since each document has to be printed twice. And if you send the same fax to a hundred different people, it has to be printed out a hundred different times.

If you think about the sheer scale of this scenario, you’ll realize that faxing wastes a lot of paper.

Online faxing can actually get rid of the paper use in faxing totally, or at least reduce it very significantly—cutting it by more than half. How online faxing works is that computer files are sent directly from your computer to the fax machine of the recipient. You don’t ever have to print out the documents on your end, and load them up to a fax machine. Only when the documents reach the recipient are they ever printed out. Furthermore, even on the recipient end, if they have an online fax system, they can choose to receive the faxes as email attachments, which means that the faxes can be viewed on the computer screen, with no need to print the pages out.