I have maintained a FAX number for many years & it seems to be rather passe in this day and age of scanning and emailing. It’s not real cheap, not real expensive. I cancelled the actual phone line and switched to an efax many years ago & now I am wondering if the whole FAX thing is something i should continue each year or if we are beyond that in 2016?
I use mine occasionally.
Do you get faxes? People occasionally fax to us, and we’ve had a few who prefer it because they think it’s more secure (credit card info). I’d try to see if it seems like people inside and outside of your business are using it and expecting it.
We have a fax number only for clients who still use it to send. We only used encrypted emails to send now.
I have a fax machine on my business line. It broke a year or two ago, and I didn’t bother to replace it. The planning department at our local business department is still sending faxes of their letters. I have no idea why no one in that office hasn’t figured out to make email the standard method to send stuff out - it would be so much easier for them and less a waste of paper. They know how to send them. I told them I didn’t have a fax number and they could use snail mail or email.
OP I keep my fax line because many governmental agencies and medical providers will not accept pdf email attachments, they say it’s for virus protection and HIPPA concerns, respectively. For my work, many of the insurance agencies I deal with will also not accept pdf attachments even though my firm represents their insureds.
The old fashioned fax has saved me on many occasions when the recipient advised that emails are not allowed and I was up against a deadline. Financial aid offices and the IRS returns immediately come to mind.
My husband has been running a business for a decade (in IT) and he has never had a fax machine. So far, he’s managed just fine without it.
Still use it - more for incoming than outgoing. I prefer to email everything - with sensitive documents encrypted. But we still have situations where people want to send a fax.
In the medical field most hospitals and insurance companies don’t like or use scanners to send info. We use a fax way more than I can believe. I have not personally sent a fax in many years.
What’s a fax? 
jk.
Financial institutions and hospitals insist on faxes. But, you don’t need a dedicated fax line to send faxes anymore.
Can you fax from your printer? We do have a fax at home but it’s very rarely used.
Yup, arabrab you can just switch your phone line over but then you would have to remember to switch it back. Inconvenient, but it can be done.
PG depends, some printers are scan/fax/copy combos.
I no longer have a dedicated line. If someone wants me to send a fax I use my all-in-one printer and connect it to the phone line. I don’t receive faxes.
You don’t even need a phone line, unless they have gone out of business, there used to be services where you could send faxes and have it sent to a ‘real’ fax machine, likewise on the reverse side, so you don’t need a dedicated phone line.
I send faxes but rarely receive them. I use my landline to send them and just have ONE line for about $20/month. It’s supposed to still work when we have power outages. When it goes digital so it won’t stay operational during an outage, we will discontinue.