Faxing at 30,000 feet (and printing without a printer)

If your office is your laptop, consider signing up for email/web based faxing. Signing up for a service like maxemail or eFax allows you to receive faxes in your email in box as an attachments. Sending faxes is is easy as sending an email. Limited receipt of faxes is free, for a fee you can send faxes.

Another lifesaving feature for pepole who don’t want to lug a printer around with them is the ability to print things by simply faxing them to yourself at your hotel.

I have used eFax for years and like it, but am considering a switch to maxemail due to the features and lower price. Adam Engst discusses his move to maxemail here. A key advantage for me would be the ability to get faxes as PDF. eFax sends them in a odd format that requires theis special “reader” software.

Besides the on the road advantages, I have discovered that those friends and relatives who remain luddites (you know, the “I don’t DO email” people) are now more accessable. Now I can now include them in emails simply by faxing them. Saves you from making a bunch of extra phone calls.