<p>Faxes? Land lines? 1998 called. It wants it’s thread back!</p>
<p>Encrypted PDF.</p>
<p>OK, we used to do faxing directly with the computer a very long time ago, but for some reason stopped doing it and over the years I have forgotten how to do so. We will try again now. Thanks for all the help and tips.</p>
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<p>Faxes are still being used by those who haven’t adapted to using the internet or are afraid of computer technology. </p>
<p>It’s a reason why I had to send a 14 page fax off to my parents’ accountant last March using a 56k fax/modem off of an old laptop that I’ve since sold off after scouring the hard drive.</p>
<p>Fax - Idon’t like much but sometimes I have to use it. It’s still better than using email for security-sensitive documents.
You may want to use DropBox.</p>
<p>FWIW - our HP OfficeJet 8600 printer series is able to send/receive faxes, print, copy and scan. It’s also wireless for printing. I’m embarrassed to say that, while I do send an occasional fax, I never got beyond the instruction booklet to see how to receive faxes.</p>
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<p>Actually, sending documents via fax isn’t any securer in reality. </p>
<p>Faxes can be intercepted just as easily as your average phone calls by someone with rudimentary knowledge of telephone/fax technology…especially considering they’re not usually encrypted.</p>
<p>It’s a reason why most law firms/courts I know of are using email to send/receive PDFed documents…including security-sensitive ones.</p>
<p>All in one printer/scanner/fax works fine for small fax documents. For large fax documents there are some problems: limited memory for scanned images, paper jam on both sender and receiver.</p>
<p>DropBox is free up to 2GB.
You just drag and drop files to the cloud directory from any computer, cell phone in the world.
No security concern.</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.dropbox.com%5B/url%5D”>https://www.dropbox.com</a></p>
<p>All I know is that some folks I do business with (including my book keeper) will do FAXES but NOT emails for certain documents. Our insurance agent is the same way. MOST folks will do emails with PDF attachments but not ALL folks and it’s just too hard to fight those who insist on faxes. I appreciate the suggestions and will see what works.</p>
<p>How does dropbox and other clouds get encrypted? I & H are very nervous about clouds in general.</p>
<p>I have to occasionally send faxes from home. The first time I drove over to a Fedex type store and paid $1 per page! I knew I needed an alternative. I have been very happy with Pamfax. It is a website. It is not free, but only costs pennies per page to send a word document or a PDF, or a picture. It sends a fax to fax machines. Pamfax will also give you a fax number to receive faxes but that costs a bit more and I don’t have that service. </p>
<p>Sometimes I ask recipients if they would prefer the document sent as an email attachment, but usually if they have a fax number I send a fax using Pamfax.</p>
<p>Dropbox uses commercial encription methods that banks use for sending and storing data.
It’s very safe. </p>
<p>You can see here: <a href=“Dropbox Security for Your Files and Data - Dropbox”>https://www.dropbox.com/help/27</a>
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