Fax Online: An Easy Way to Save Money And The Planet
Going green is really in vogue right now—from new hybrid cars being shown at the Detroit auto show to reusable shopping bags made of canvas, more and more products these days are targeted at saving the planet. But they all seem to cost an arm and a leg, and they seem weird or impractical. What’s something affordable that everyone can do to save money (and the planet)? Faxing online. Like the sage advice, “plastics,” in the movie “The Graduate,” sending your faxes online is one solution to lower operating costs and help save the environment at the same time. Here’s how:
By sending your faxes online you save money on paper. In addition to saving money on the cost of paper, you never lose time by running out of paper or ink at a critical moment. It’s also eco-friendly because, honestly, do you really need to print out every single fax that you get? Just think about all of those wasted sheets of paper. Also, fax to email lets you pick and choose which faxes to print out and which ones to save electronically. Not only that but fax to email uses something you already have. The value proposition would be different if you had to replace your fax machine with something new, but who doesn’t have email these days? Saving money by leveraging current investments is definitely a good idea. It’s also very green, too, because fax machines need to be manufactured, shipped, and disposed of - all of which take energy that probably came from some form of fossil fuel.
Finally, faxing online saves money because it’s location-independent. With a regular fax machine, there’s only one location where you can send and check your faxes: at the fax machine. but when you fax online, you can get your faxes wherever you can get email—at home, on the go (if you have a Blackberry or some similar mobile email client) . . . wherever you can access the internet or your email, you can get your faxes. While this is not necessarily ecologically friendly, it does make life better. And doesn’t that improve the (social) environment?
