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Poll: Do you have/use a fax machine for business purposes? Autor de la hebra: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Do you have/use a fax machine for business purposes?".
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Michael Harris 
Alemania
Local time: 07:14
Miembro 2006
alemán al inglés
I must have proposed this about 18 months ago
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I don't really see the need for one
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Michael Harris wrote:
I must have proposed this about 18 months ago
Are you sure it wasn't 18 years ago?
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Jack Doughty
Reino Unido
Local time: 06:14
ruso al inglés
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In Memoriam | Do you have a quill pen and parchment? | Apr 1, 2014 |
Fax seems obsolete to me these days, when it's so much easier to send documents as attachments to emails.
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David Wright
Austria
Local time: 07:14
alemán al inglés
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| The good old days | Apr 1, 2014 |
of uncut fax paper spewing out by the metre from the fax machine, the translation then being faxed back to the customer who then had to write it all out again. wasn't it fun! (and I recall it leading to a demand for faster turnaround times - after all, if the text could reach us faster, we could also translate faster - logical, eh? - but nothing compared to today's "do it by yesterday" approach!)
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inkweaver
Alemania
Local time: 07:14
francés al alemán
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Kristian Andersson wrote: Are you sure it wasn't 18 years ago?
Good one
German institutions and entities still seem to be quite fond of those stone-age appliances, though. Emails and attachments of scanned documents still seem to be "neuland".
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neilmac
España
Local time: 07:14
español al inglés
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And I get extremely frustrated when required to send anything by fax nowadays. It just seems so 20th century...
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Michael Harris
Alemania
Local time: 07:14
Miembro 2006
alemán al inglés
| Now I remember | Apr 1, 2014 |
I was contacted to do translations for one of the largest software companies on the planet, but they wanted all "official" correspondencies to be sent to them by fax!!
After telling them which year we had, mentioning that faxes are not really used any more, I sent the documents to be faxed to work with my wife and she faxed them for me. I had not used a fax for about 8 years before this.
Do not work with them any more....
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Haven't used the fax for years now, but I did have to post a letter the other day
It seems you no longer have to lick stamps, which is nice
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Graeme Walle (X)
Finlandia
Local time: 08:14
finlandés al inglés
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| Made me chuckle too | Apr 1, 2014 |
Kristian Andersson wrote: Michael Harris wrote:
I must have proposed this about 18 months ago Are you sure it wasn't 18 years ago?
This made me chuckle too. There are some online services that will do it for you if you upload the file to them but for reasons of confidentiality they cannot be really be used professionally.
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Erzsébet Czopyk
Hungría
Local time: 07:14
Miembro 2006
ruso al húngaro
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inkweaver wrote: Kristian Andersson wrote: Are you sure it wasn't 18 years ago? Good one German institutions and entities still seem to be quite fond of those stone-age appliances, though. Emails and attachments of scanned documents still seem to be "neuland".
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| Have, but don't use | Apr 1, 2014 |
Some years ago both my fax machines were declared "beyond repair", so I got rid of them.
To give an idea on how much they were used, I had them set up in tandem on a dedicated line. Machine #1 (thermal paper) would always pick up a fax call. If it ran out of paper, the connection would drop, and Machine #2 (plain paper) would pick up calls thereafter, until #1 were resupplied. I took this idea from hotel rooms always having two rolls of toilet paper.
I still have a dedi... See more Some years ago both my fax machines were declared "beyond repair", so I got rid of them.
To give an idea on how much they were used, I had them set up in tandem on a dedicated line. Machine #1 (thermal paper) would always pick up a fax call. If it ran out of paper, the connection would drop, and Machine #2 (plain paper) would pick up calls thereafter, until #1 were resupplied. I took this idea from hotel rooms always having two rolls of toilet paper.
I still have a dedicated landline for fax, connected to a multifunctional printer, but I haven't sent or received a fax for the past two years or so. Three faxes overall over the past four years. About time to put an end to it.
I think this is no longer secret nor valid, but I recall having translated some material from credit card companies about 10 years ago. In a nutshell, home-based freelancing professionals were given about twice as much credit for having different phone numbers for voice and fax. It made me wonder if some more needy people having one and the same number for both, who ever became aware of that, would consider swapping fax numbers with a friendly neighbor, just to have them different.
Few people nowadays know/recall what was a Telex machine. Quite soon the fax will follow this path. Does anyone still remember the sound of a dial-up Internet connection? ▲ Collapse
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Sonia Hill
Reino Unido
Local time: 06:14
italiano al inglés
I used to have one when I started out, but I'd say the fax machine is almost obsolete these days.
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mainly for private clients who send me their (birth, marriage etc.) certificates in advance and show me their original documents when they pop in.
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