Fax is one of the many forms of telecommunications technologies in widespread use today. You can find a fax machine in almost every office anywhere in the world. The word “fax” is short for facsimile, which is Latin for “make a copy.” Fax technology basically works by transmitting copies of documents through a telephone network using a device called a fax machine. In simple terms, a fax machine works as if you sent pieces of paper documents to a receiving end almost instantaneously.

Hey, wouldn’t it be great to send and receive faxes from your Windows XP computer without having to buy expensive software? If you have a fax modem installed or you can have one installed, you can do just that. But you’ll need to take a few steps because the fax service is not installed by default.

This is a great idea if you have a home office since the business world seems unable or unwilling to let go of Faxing and move on to E-mail. At least, Faxing with the computer allows you to send the Fax to a printer and eliminates one more ancient office machine.

Haven’t we all stopped to think about times when offices functioned or operated without the use of the fax machine? Today this technology is so common in every workplace that it is almost a necessity. A business without a fax machine in today’s world would be the equivalent of a middle-class family not using the good old telephone. Communication would be slow, at best, and any business attempting to forego this expense, would very quickly lose out in the rush for success.