Internet Fax Machine

AirComUSA turns your email account into an internet fax machine. There is no special software to buy, and no special fax viewer to download. This is because AirComUSA utilizes the programs already on your computer to send and receive a fax over the internet.

You may send a fax over the internet with your email acount. Just send an email to an email address we provide you when your account is set up. Included in the email should be the fax numbers you wish to send the fax to, and the actual document you wish to send as a fax should be attached.
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When you receive a fax it will be sent over the internet, and delivered to your email accout as an email attachment. The email attachment will be a tiff file that can be opened by many different programs. The program that is most likley already on your machine, and the one that we recomend using is the Kodak Imaging program. It is a softwere program that comes with Windows 95 through Windows 2000. You may open and view the fax right on your machine without any printing. If you are using Kodak Imaging can easily edit the fax, and then fax it back out via email through your AirComUSA account.
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The fax machine has become one of the most important communication tools of modern business. From updates about the proceedings in Tiannanmen Square 15 years ago to updates from 1 Redmond Way, we rely on faxes to share press releases, contracts, love letters and thousands of other documents. Today it is nigh impossible to imagine how we conducted business without fax machines.

Despite, or perhaps because of its simple power, today's fax machines have little improved since business embraced them in the 70's and 80's. While most people have forsaken paper rolls, their print quality is still marginal at best. We would never accept from even bubble jet printers the fuzzy text we expect from fax machines.

Figure 1: Fax machines waste paper, toner, and are poor print quality

On top of their poor print quality, fax machines waste time and money. While the PC revolution continues to consolidate an ever-expanding circle of functions onto our desktop, fax machines remain separate from our computers, typically guarded by a secretary. A few software packages allow you to send faxes from the internet; but as long as businesses must still pay $500 - $2000 per machine to receive faxes, most businesses see little reason to buy additional fax software.

On top of these costs, fax machines cost a great deal of time. Printing hard copy, walking to the fax machine, sending the fax, waiting for return confirmation, none of these nuisances takes much time individually, but collectively they can easily take 10-15 minutes, sometimes longer. And of course, fax machines waste a lot of paper, and expensive toner.

Figure 2: Non Labor Costs of Using Fax Machines

Because many businesses must have 5, 10 or more fax machines, hardware costs are often substantial; these costs, however, pale in comparison to the labor costs. Printing a hard copy, walking to the fax machine, sending the fax, waiting for return confirmation, none of these nuisances takes much time individually, but collectively they can easily take 10-15 minutes, sometimes longer. According to a 1996 Gallup/Pitney Bowes (G/PB) study, more than 300 billion faxes are sent annually. Because faxes allow businesses to share information securely and safely, the number of faxes continues to rise. For a department that sends even a miniscule fraction of those 300 billion faxes, these 15 minutes quickly morph into hours and days of wasted time.

As Figure 1 indicates, printing and telecom charges make up the bulk of the non labor cost of using fax machines. However, this estimate relies on a very conservative estimate of maintenance costs. Maintenance costs often consume 10 percent or more of non labor costs.

Figure 3: Labor vs. Non-Labor Costs of Using Fax Machines

While the non labor costs of using and maintaining fax machines are significant, the labor costs are far greater.

Figure 4: One of the fax machine's more irritating labor costs

By moving the fax to your desktop, AirComUSA can easily shave 1/3 off your total fax costs.

While the PC revolution continues to consolidate an ever-expanding circle of functions onto our desktop, fax machines remain separate from our computers, typically guarded by a secretary. A few software packages allow you to send faxes from the desktop; but as long as businesses must still pay $500 - $2000 per machine to receive faxes, most businesses see little reason to buy additional fax software. At AirComUSA, we don't believe in fax machines. They work well, and have served us well, but digital consumers have been begging for "a better mousetrap." We've built it. In essence, AirComUSA moves the fax machine to the internet. We have the knowledge, experience, infrastructure and proprietary software to provide enhanced internet fax communications services at a fraction of the cost of using traditional fax machines.

• Internet Fax
• Sending an internet fax fax with AirComUSA is as easy as sending an email. Send an email, to your assigned address fax email. Attach the documents you want to fax as .prn files. In the body of your email, list the fax numbers you want to fax the documents to.
• Faxes sent to your AirComUSA fax account will arrive in your email Inbox. The documents will be attached as .tif files that you can open, view, save and print in Kodak© Imaging.

Customized Fax Services

• Many companies must send faxes to multiple customers to confirm purchases.



• Many companies must send faxes to multiple customers to confirm purchases. We can customize a fax system allowing you to send us the raw data for all your customers. We would then organize the data according to your specifications, and send clean faxes formatted however you would like to each of your customers.