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White Paper - Network Faxing

This white paper provides useful background information on network fax technology. It will help you decide whether your company needs a network fax solution and which solution suits your company best.

Take the legwork out of faxing!
Faxing manually is out of date. Research shows that a professional fax server can save your organization substantial costs, while improving your customer service and image. FAXmaker for Networks/SMTP is an enterprise quality fax server that delivers on this promise. With more than 70,000 fax servers shipped since its launch, FAXmaker is an industry leader when it comes to reliability, robustness, ease of use & administration, and price.

E-mail to FAX gateway
FAXmaker for Networks/SMTP offers full email integration. Users can use their e-mail client to send and receive faxes. FAXmaker for Networks/SMTP integrates with an SMTP/POP3 mail server or Lotus Notes.

Features for the user

FAX from any Windows application
No matter which Windows application is used, anything a user creates can be faxed. The user simply prints the document to the FAXmaker printer. Files, for instance a product brochure, can also be attached to the fax. Before actually sending the fax, users can preview it on screen. A customizable cover page, which includes company logo and personal signature, can also be added to a fax. 

Supports Outlook contacts There is no need to keep a separate fax address book - just select the recipient’s “Business Fax” entry from the Outlook contacts list or the Global Address Book. In this way you do not need to duplicate address entries. Also, Because fax recipients appear in the e-mail address book, users can interchange fax and e-mail addresses, making it easy for the user to broadcast information to a number of people, whether they have an email or a fax address.

Use your Outlook contacts list for fax recipients

Note: If you have Microsoft Exchange server, use FAXmaker for Exchange
 

Windows XP/2000/NT & ME/98/95 client fax software FAXmaker includes fax client software and printer drivers for all Windows platforms. The FAXmaker fax client has a user friendly interface. It features a multi user network phone book (although if you have Outlook you can use the Outlook contacts), a fax manager with the ability to create fax folders and much more.  Attach any Office document Users can attach any Office document to their message. This document will then be rendered to fax format at the server level and faxed out. A document can also be faxed using the ‘Send File’ command, which is available in all Microsoft Office applications and many others*.

The Send fax dialog

FAX annotation
Incoming faxes can also be edited. This gives users the possibility to stamp their ‘Approval’ on faxed documents or add their own comments. The edited faxes can then be returned, or re-routed to another recipient.

Transmission reports
After sending a fax, users can view a transmission report from the FAXmaker client. FAXmaker can also automatically print out transmission reports and miniature print-outs of each fax sent. If using an email client, fax transmission reports will be sent by email.

Support for fax broadcasting using Microsoft Office or fax broadcast wizard
FAXmaker allows you to easily send personalized fax mailings. You can use the Fax broadcast wizard, which allows you to connect to an ODBC database, or you can use the included word macros, which enable you to create personalized fax mailings by using the powerful mail merge helper of Microsoft Word.

Features for the administrator

Robust, multi-line Windows NT/2000 FAX Server

FAXmaker includes a native Windows NT/2000 fax server that runs as a service and does not require a dedicated computer. Unlike other 'NT' fax products, FAXmaker does NOT run on Windows 95/98, and has been therefore optimized to take advantage of security & stability features unique to Windows NT/2000.  Four fax lines are supported as standard, and can be expanded up to 32 lines per fax server using fax boards or active ISDN cards. List of supported devices...

The FAXmaker fax server monitor

Native ISDN support
FAXmaker's natively supports ISDN, allowing you to use inexpensive active ISDN cards and get multi line faxing and inbound routing at a fraction of the price of using multi line fax boards.

Support for Windows 2000 fax drivers
FAXmaker can use the Windows 2000 fax drivers, which means that FAXmaker 2000 can share a modem with another comm application such as RAS. In addition, it supports 2D faxing (faster fax transmission) as well as boasting wider modem support.

Automated FAX delivery / inbound fax routing
FAXmaker can automatically route incoming faxes to the user’s mailbox using one of four methods: CSID, DID/DTMF, OCR or Line routing. CSID determines the recipient based on the FAX ID, DID/DTMF on the basis of the dialed number (requires DID trunks or ISDN), and OCR by searching for names and keywords in a fax. Line routing allows faxes to be routed based on the line they were received on. Faxes can also be manually routed, or assigned to a network printer per installed fax port.

Remote user administration & fax server monitoring/administration
FAXmaker for Networks/SMTP allows you to configure the fax servers and users remotely, greatly easing the administrative task. Additionally the fax server status can be viewed from a remote machine using the fax server monitor.

Call accounting
FAXmaker can cost all your phone calls and apportion them to specific users or departments. Companies can also make use of billing codes.

Email to Fax gateway
FAXmaker for Networks/SMTP also includes a full SMTP FAX gateway, offering users the possibility to use an e-mail client, such as Outlook, Notes or Netscape, to send and receive faxes. Furthermore, users can now use either an email client or the FAXmaker.

Fax archiving
Faxes can be archived for back-up and quick retrieval. With the optional OCR module, users can also search for a fax by specifying keywords.

Application integration
FAXmaker includes an easy to understand COM interface, which allows you to automate faxing even further by having your application "pass" the fax number automatically. In addition, FAXmaker has an API that allows users to send out faxes programmatically by submitting a text file with recipient information in a designated directory, which FAXmaker automatically scans and faxes out.

Support for the HP Digital sender
If you have an HP Digital sender, you can use its interface to easily send paper documents by fax.

Administration through MMC
All user administration is done via the new Microsoft Management Console.

You're in good company...
Many leading companies have chosen FAXmaker for Networks/SMTP. Here are just a few: Shell Oil Lubricants, Kawasaki Construction Machinery Corp. of America, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - The Hubble Space Telescope Project, DHL Hungary, Philips Business Communications, and many more.

* This feature requires installation of the Email2Fax gateway