I just noticed the office print machine has a fax option. I can’t remember the last time I sent or received a fax. Does anyone still use them?

Just sent one to a school about 2 minutes ago.

We occasionally get faxed orders, though normally they are in addition to emailed ones. A share registrar I used to work for still does for certain documents.

A lad here (20yr old) did ask what one was and how they worked though…

There’s still an active one in our office. People create a work instruction on screen, print it, fax it, then phone someone to tell them there’s a fax waiting.

They don’t grasp that they could just send the work instruction from their computer to the printer next to the fax machine at the other end.

Don’t even mention that we’re roling out toughpads to the guess who collect those faxes.

Needed sometimes for legal things where an actual signature is required.

(Because the authenticity of a written signature is far more reliable a PGP-signed email, naturally…)

Don’t know, but I did write a cheque last week – the first one in about 18 months.

This morning as our email has decided it doesn’t want to send to certain addresses, why does it do that????

It’ll usually tell you in the bounced message.

Don’t know, but I did write a cheque last week – the first one in about 18 months.

Yeah, me neither. I wrote a cheque to my accountant last week and just had a look at my business chequebook. The last one I wrote was 07/2012.

In the late 80s I once spent 2 entire days faxing some long contract documents to america. stand by machine and feed pages in one ata time, until one got screwedup, or the fax machine dropped the line and had to redial… work experience eh?

If it’s something with a signature, we usually scan it then email it. Follow up by post or courier if necessary

Ditched ours ages ago, all we got were junk faxes that just eat toner & paper. We use efax now still get lots of junk sh1te but you can just preview it & delete rather than printing it out

I remember the placement year I did. Old boy come through to the secretary with a sealed A4 manila envelope with a sizeable amount of paperwork. He then asks Julie to fax it to the American office.

She starts to open the envelope and he snaps,
“don’t open it, can’t you see it’s marked confidential!”

Not sure how he thought a fax machine worked.

Had to recieve one from someone today who couldn’t figure out how to take a picture and email it.

more or less got rid of it though.

don’t think I’ve ever sent a fax though.

Haven’t sent a fax since the Millennium I think. Still got a phone/fax machine on my desk, but the toner ran out a decade ago.

Still have a chequebook, it mostly gets used for paying the powdercoater.

I have never had a chequebook.

I have sent a fax once.

You know what? All this is inspiring me to listen to a cassette later tonight!

Funny watching back to the future where they actually go forward to the future (is it 2? The crap one). The hovercars, self adjusting clothing, home fusion from rubish, deyhdrated evening meals, video conferencing, and he gets fired by fax!

Often. Send copies of mental health forms to the review board. Copies of notes/assessments to other hospitals. We could scan and email but the internet is shat here. Often wonder when my telegram training update will be. Lucky I’m good at morse code and most people have CB’s for comms.

We deal with a large customer who still corresponds through fax only.

Nothing makes me more miserable than troubleshooting fax using VOIP. The sooner fax machines die the better 👿

Well, working in the NHS, you know, the cutting edge of medical advancements with millions of pounds to manage the nation’s healthcare with, and a vision of having the most up to date computer system this side of facebook, of course the last time I (i.e. my practice) sent a fax was about…ooh…. 15 minutes ago.

Shortly after the one before that….

Retrotastic

DrP

Dr P Snap.

More secure than a lot of email. In the nhs we use them a lot for urgent confidential stuff. All sorts of issues about sending patient data , even encrypted by email where multiple users need to be able to access the destination email account.

As above. NHS, send secure faxes daily.

A lot of wholesalers still use them as apparently it stops the emails dropping off the page and getting forgotten?

A what?

2006. To Japan. Turned out that their phone system was different to UK phone systems and meant email couldn’t get through. The problem has been fixed since so we can now email the most technologically advanced country in the world.

Actually, I’m really trying to remember, and it’s got to be getting on for fifteen years ago, if not more.

11.30am

Faxes are used in corporate banking because it’s an industry standard with guarantee of receipt. My old department would send and receive thousands per day.

Thousands of fax machines are still sold each year as they are required for legal transactions apparently, as emails are not legally valid.

Cropped up in an article on Radio 5 a couple of weeks ago

We still have a bunch of schools, and Argyll and Bute council that use them. 🙁

Weekly,if not daily use.

daily in our solicitors practice.

I work in a large College. we fax all our orders to our suppliers*

*I don’t, can’t work the thing…

I still have to send the odd fax, but scan more these days. On an aside, we were looking at our train tickets today and I’m sure they’ve not changed design for years. Unlike the fares!

Sent one a couple of weeks ago. Needed to get a document in hard copy to a guest at a hotel and didn’t want to have to email it to the business centre and then the recipient to get charged $1 a page for printing. It worked!

1997.

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