RE: Outbound fax from 400

Doug,

As with most things in IS....it depends.

Are the 40 pages a day trying to go out all at once and are they time sensitive?

Are they going to local or long distance numbers?

I've used and email-to-fax gateway (http://www.maxemail.com) at a previous 
position.  At 0.08 per page, may cost less than an additional phone line.  In 
my case, it was particularly appealing since while I only needed to send out 
about 50 or so faxes a day, the faxes all pretty much went out at the same time 
and they needed to be sent without a delay.  To be able to meet the time 
requirements, we would have probably needed a fax server software (and or 
hardware) and two or three phone lines.  All of which would have been sitting 
basically unused for the other 23hrs in the day.

HTH,

Charles Wilt
--
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Douglas Handy
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:56 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Outbound fax from 400
> 
> 
> What recommendations do people have for a product to allow 
> outbound faxes to
> be generated from the 400?
> 
> Inbound fax is not needed. Outbound can be simple text only; 
> graphics and
> overlays are not required.
> 
> Volume is estimated at up to 40 pages per day.
> 
> I don't care if it is a spool file redirect, APIs from RPG, 
> or emails which
> get converted by a gateway to a fax destination. Whatever is 
> the most cost
> effective for this type of volume.
> 
> If an email gateway is not used, what hardware is 
> recommended? Can the ECS
> modem in a 270 be used for outbound faxes?
> 
> Vendor responses are welcomed via private email
> 
> Doug
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