What is Internet Fax?

Network fax is based on PSTN (telephone switching network) and Internet fax storage and forwarding, also known as electronic fax. It integrates telephone network, intelligent network and Internet technology. The principle is that the file is transmitted to the fax server through the Internet, converted by the server into a general graphics format received by the fax machine, and then sent to ordinary fax machines around the world through the PSTN.

Internet Fax

There are three common definitions of Internet Fax:

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Fax communication is a communication method that uses scanning and photoelectric conversion technology to transmit static images such as text, images, photos, etc. from the sender to the receiver through wired or wireless channels, and reproduces the original still image in the form of records at the receiver.

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Before choosing a fax product, you must first have a certain understanding of your own fax needs and the fax product market. There is no absolute good or bad between different fax products. It is most important to find the one that suits your needs.

At present, electronic faxes on the market are roughly divided into four categories according to their working principles:

1. A new generation of online fax platform, based on

Internet fax also has some disadvantages that are currently unavoidable. For example, Internet fax does not happen in real time. After sending, you must wait for the confirmation message from the service provider to determine the success of the fax transmission. Internet fax is greatly affected by the local network status. If the local status is poor, it will cause sending. Slow speed and other issues. However, these disadvantages are insignificant compared to the benefits that Internet faxes bring to people. More and more Internet users are sending faxes over the Internet as a use.

In view of the vast development prospects and huge market of Internet fax, more and more businesses in the world have entered the field of Internet fax services. The more well-known products include FaxSav from American NeMoves and Faxaway from American International Telecom. Among them, FaxAuncher Pro developed by neMoves is one of the most advanced network fax application software. Its technical characteristics are as follows:

1. Can use a variety of editing software

Faxlauncher Pro is a set of drivers for sending faxes. After the user installs the software on the computer, a printer named "Faxauncher" will be automatically generated in the system. Its role is to virtualize the target fax machine as the sender's network printer. The sender's fax file is virtualized through this software. "Print" to the destination fax machine. This way supports Chinese and all printable graphic formats. Users can use a variety of editing software (such as Word'Excel'Photoshop and WPS, etc.) to edit the fax content, select "Print" from the file menu, set the printer to "Faxauncher", and then select the confirmation command. At this time, a dialog box will pop up on the screen. The user fills in the number of the destination fax machine, and clicks "OK" to send the fax. This software allows users to compose fax content with their familiar editing software, giving full play to the powerful functions of various editing software, and users do not have to consider the problem of unrecognized file formats, which is truly simple and practical.

2. Safe and reliable sending process

In order to ensure the security of users sending faxes, FaxLauncherPro automatically generates hydrogen fax files on the client.

Although Internet fax has developed to such a degree, compared with the real fax machine, it still has some inevitable weaknesses based on Internet transmission, such as some graphics, forms, handwritten documents, and stamped contracts cannot pass Send directly from the computer and so on. For this reason, people have come up with many ways to make up for its shortcomings. For example, the development of special scanning software for Internet fax, which uses a scanner to scan documents and then send them through the software. The Internet fax add-on device, Legacy200, developed by Treason IMI, can be completely detached from the PC and connected to an ordinary fax machine. Relevant information such as ISP, DNS, SMTP, POP, and E-mail address can be automatically connected to the Internet, and files on ordinary fax machines can be sent directly through the Internet. Japan's Matsushita Electric has also taken the lead in launching the Internet Fax-Panasonic770-I, which integrates a fax machine and a PC. Although the current price is unacceptable, the use of this new product has demonstrated the great prospect of Internet fax.

It is believed that in the near future, with the development of the Internet and the advancement of phase magnetic technology, the use of Internet fax services and supporting products that are extremely convenient, extremely low in cost, fast in transmission speed, and excellent in transmission quality will be extremely fast. , Into every corner of people's social life.