The answer I believe depends on the reason you are still using your fax machine. For example, do you receive and send faxes every day, or do you have your fax machine to send or receive a fax once or twice a month or so. If the latter then I would say NO, but then others may say YES. I would then of course say, why pay for a fax machine and all the associated costs such as paper, toner and phone line rentals. When in fact, all you need to use is your email client such as Outlook or web-based such as Yahoo or Hotmail.

Also, if you are in business and send and receive documents on an ongoing regular basis and the Sales Department requires a customer signature or sign-off then it maybe easier to keep your fax machine. Or you could just scan it and then send it via Filefax – the decision is yours. However, it won’t be on the same phone line as your broadband connection, so you would have to subscribe to an extra line rental for the fax machine.

If your forms, documents etc just require a signature then there isn’t really much to say or argue in favour of putting the fax machine in the storeroom to gather dust with all the other hardware that technology makes redundant. And YES you could also cancel the other phone line/s. But the other thought in my mind is that when sending a document via a fax machine it can take longer given the manual procedure when an email takes just seconds to send.

But then again nearly every company has a scanner, so obtaining a digital copy is no problem. So if you have your document as a computer file such as Word, TIFF or PDF you can send it via email with a simple click. Or on the other hand, if it has to be delivered as a paper fax for their signature the other end etc then subscribe to an email fax service as these enable you to send and receive your faxes via email.

As I said the decision is yours, but there is nothing wrong with making life easier is there.