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How to send, receive and keep a fax, step by step.
In most cases you can take the number with you. It is a portability request, it takes days rather than minutes, and the one thing that kills it is cancelling the old line first.
Read articleA fax machine needs an analogue line, and those are being switched off country by country. The number can outlive the line — the machine usually cannot.
Read articleRoughly 20 to 60 seconds a page, plus 20 seconds to connect. Long documents are not just slower — they fail more often, which is why per-fax page limits exist.
Read articleUse the phone's document-scanner mode, not the camera. A photograph of a page is the single most common reason a faxed document arrives unreadable.
Read articleA fax number is a phone number that answers with a modem. Point it at software instead of a device and the pages arrive as PDFs.
Read articleSix lines: who it is for, who it is from, how to reach you, the date, the page count, and one line of subject. Never the contents.
Read articleA fax is one bit per dot at roughly 200 DPI. Colour, shading and thin grey type do not survive that; black text on white does, perfectly.
Read articleMost failures are the far end, not your document — a line that rings out, a machine out of paper, a number that became a voice line. Here is how to tell which one you hit.
Read articleIt proves a machine at that number answered and accepted a given number of pages. It does not prove who read them, or that the right document was sent.
Read articleAttach the document, send it to the recipient's fax number as an address, and read the transmission report. The whole job takes about two minutes.
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