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Need fax-to-email suggestions
Experts,
I'm the systems admin for a mid-sized healthcare company (~150 users, 6 locations), and I've been tasked with finding a reasonably priced fax-to-email solution that can handle our volume (about 15,000 outgoing pages per month).
We have 10 incoming fax #s on analog lines (not VoIP) assigned to a hodge-podge of different printer/copier equipment throughout our offices. We'd like to consolidate these lines onto one or two fax-to-email appliances or two different industrial multifunction devices that support fax-to-email capability. It would also be ideal to be able to print to a fax directly from our client workstations.
Budget hasn't been specified, but my gut tells me I've got about a range of about $400 per month to implement this (or a grand total of ~$5K for a purchase). I've thought about using the Sagem Express edition here: http://www.sagem-interstar.com/fax-server-software/xmediusfax/express/index.htm, but I've got no experience with it and I'm uncertain of cost or difficulties in implementation.
Any thoughts? 500 points up for grabs because I NEED HELP!!
I'm the systems admin for a mid-sized healthcare company (~150 users, 6 locations), and I've been tasked with finding a reasonably priced fax-to-email solution that can handle our volume (about 15,000 outgoing pages per month).
We have 10 incoming fax #s on analog lines (not VoIP) assigned to a hodge-podge of different printer/copier equipment throughout our offices. We'd like to consolidate these lines onto one or two fax-to-email appliances or two different industrial multifunction devices that support fax-to-email capability. It would also be ideal to be able to print to a fax directly from our client workstations.
Budget hasn't been specified, but my gut tells me I've got about a range of about $400 per month to implement this (or a grand total of ~$5K for a purchase). I've thought about using the Sagem Express edition here: http://www.sagem-interstar.com/fax-server-software/xmediusfax/express/index.htm, but I've got no experience with it and I'm uncertain of cost or difficulties in implementation.
Any thoughts? 500 points up for grabs because I NEED HELP!!
What kind of copy machines do you currently have? You might consider asking your photocopy company if there is a FAX option for your machine, which the driver can be loaded on your workstations and print to FAX. I use a FAX board on my Xerox for both incoming and outgoing Faxes.
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We've got a couple of different (older) systems. It really is a hodge-podge of older equipment. One copier is a Minolta Di251; we also have a Sharp AR-M237 and a Muratec -F320.
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Hi Lamont
I have succesfully implemented a great fax server solution ( sends 2000 pages daily ), that also receives a few hundred pages per day, which are in turn forwarded to corresponding users in a 75 users network, using Zetafax from www.equisys.com
Check them out, i only use a fraction of the product's possibilities.
I have succesfully implemented a great fax server solution ( sends 2000 pages daily ), that also receives a few hundred pages per day, which are in turn forwarded to corresponding users in a 75 users network, using Zetafax from www.equisys.com
Check them out, i only use a fraction of the product's possibilities.
if you want to avoid hardware I use (http://www.efax.com/) it's web based and hosted. It does e-mail to fax and fax to email. it also keeps a great log and history.
I don't think they ever provided enough to answer it correctly. Never know if they needed hardware or software or web based....
Marakush: provided the first viable solution so they should get the points.
Marakush: provided the first viable solution so they should get the points.
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Marakush really provided the best answers, in my opinion. Thanks for the help, all.
We'll be looking deeper into the Xerox workstation solution.
We'll be looking deeper into the Xerox workstation solution.