Why are Fax machines still around?

Some banks will only accept fax for documents, they say its more secure.

Largely because "overnight" document shipping fails on the regular. I worked in auto financing, and I ended up faxing fully half of the documentation because the paper hadn't arrived on schedule.

It's simpler that scanning a document into the computer and sending it...

No clue,but a baby made in labor is one?

Who gives a shit?

My computer accepts a fax and turns it into a PDF and organizes it by who it's sent from. It never gets printed.


Some of the forms our drivers use get faxed to us.

The fax machine immediately prints them and they pull it from the printer when they come in the morning.

So to answer your question.

Convenience.

It's more convenient than searching your email and printing the form.

Paper to paper.

Not scan paper to pdf, email, retrieve email, print to paper.

You're essentially handing off a paper to someone nowhere near you with minimal steps involved.

Fax machines are damn cool, too.

Banks and the military

To send and receive fax.

Some government agencies are so behind the curve that they'll only accept paper or faxed documents, not email attachments.

It's even worse today with so many agencies and government buildings locked to the public.

The tech has its place in low bandwidth environments(maybe). It's simply a matter of backwards compatibility. I have a brand new old fax machine on a shelf still in the unopened box.

You can still fax and send 100 dollar bills on the older color models.

'Cuz it's ancient tech that can be relied on to work with minimal structure.

vaccine / faxing

Fax is for offices interactions...

Because you don't need electricity to read a paper document.

Paper docs have to be shredded or burned to be destroyed. Electronic docs can be destroyed at a click of a mouse, a power surge or EMP.

Paper docs are much harder to modify. E-docs can be modified without a trace.

The issue of faxes is really is about paper docs versus e-docs.

Last Edited by Remedial_Rebel on 01/07/2022 12:12 PM

The laws on the books are behind. They don't accept emails as legal documents. Faxed documents are specifically covered in the laws. Many need to be re-written.

It’s one step versus many steps
Send paper
Get paper
The end

Scan
Create email
Attach
Type
Send
Receive
Open
Print
Get paper

You see?

My office has one. Gets used very little. But its still useful... I think.

Fax machines will soon be gone, just like Vax machines.

being in banking...they are the most secure form of delivering sensitive paperwork these days... and you send a fax and receive a fax right from your email inbox.

Last Edited by slavin777 on 01/07/2022 12:43 PM

More Secure ... plus you have a CONFIRMATION that the document was actually received on the other end, which is good in a Court of Law.

HIPA documents are REQUIRED to be sent by FAX by most medical entities when they are sending HIPA documents electronically outside of their own organization. By doing that it gets rid of a HUGE amount of security work that has to be done on their computer and connection networks otherwise (think small doctor offices, small independent clinics etc., NOT large hospitals)

... PLUS when the paper arrives it is immediately available to be put into the file without needing to be located and printed out

The design of the entire Fax system was MUCH better thought out than was the design of the email system. THAT is why Faxes are still so useful today (my office uses them all the time to this day - quicker and more efficient for many things than computers and email)

most said truth, emails can be redacted, fax can not

sure, only the sender can do something with the document

so it eliminates the corruption

why?

can u read

More Secure ... plus you have a CONFIRMATION that the document was actually received on the other end, which is good in a Court of Law.

You know that screeching noise fax machines make when they connect? I heard that once when I fell down the stairs.

one dude in Italy won a lawsuit because got cancer on brain due to his years long work with the fax machines

just a reminder

LOL! Scan, modify using photoshop or any other software, print, and fax. Wallah!

Legal document.

IRS too...they will ask you to fax them copies of records if they question your tax return

So they can't see you doing the moontwerk?

My mom had to utilize a fax machine just today to get documents to her realtor.

Schools and Dr offices