At a key point in the Christmas classic “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” movie, Rudolph and his traveling companions stumble across the Island of Misfit Toys. It’s the place where toys that don’t quite measure up to expectations are banished, forever wishing they could serve a useful purpose.

Of course, this being television-which requires a happy ending for all except the bad guys-at the end all of the toys find a happy home. Seems like they were useful to someone after all.

In the real world, however, things are a little different. Once an office product or technology has outlived its usefulness, it’s time to banish it to the Island of Obsolete Office Equipment. The steno or dictation machine has surely found its way there. Hardly anyone dictates letters for secretaries or stenographers to type up. We type our own letters on computers now. (This is progress?)

The classic typewriter itself is in that class too. There may be one hanging around to address a quick envelope, or sitting on the desk of some crusty old timer who just won’t give it up, but for the most part typewriters are now part of our nostalgic past. More on Banish Your Fax Machine - The Benefits of an Internet Fax Service

Yes! This is the straight answer to the question in the title.  I can keep this post as short at that phrase, but let’ take a look at why.

First, it lets you start from your current level of knowledge/expertise.  I have found that sending from fax to email through an Internet faxing service is much easier in the beginning.  This, in some cases will mean dropping the advanced features you can enjoy with faxing software, but enjoying an easy interface.

It lets you reach people with just a click.  Forget about lading paper and maintaining a costly machine.  Nowadays everything can be done from the comfort of your computer and at a much higher speed.

Finally, it is ready available for everyone.  Services like Ringcentral Fax offer free trials for you to get a hold of the service before buying.  This is an even easier way to get started with Internet faxing.  We invite you to explore the site to learn all about it and find the best free trials and programs out there for the different user levels.

Commetrex Corporation announced today the general availability of its newest BladeWare application, BladeWare Email-to-Fax Server (Email2Fax). BladeWare, an all-software (HMP) fax media server, has included two deployment-ready fax applications: BladeWare Fax Media Server (FMS), for use with SIP-based application servers and BladeWare Fax-to-Email (Fax2Email). Now, BladeWare Email2Fax joins the line up. The Company maintains that each of these products offer unique values to the service provider.

Tom Ray, Commetrex' EVP, explained, "We've licensed our TerminatingT38 stack to many hosted-services solution providers, but they only make fax available as part of a comprehensive solution. BladeWare, on the other hand, offers an affordable and easy-to-deploy tightly focused solution to the problem of adding fax to a voice-only service network. We are pleased to be able to announce BladeWare Email2Fax since it allows service providers to finally offer outbound email-to-fax services alongside BladeWare-based fax-to-email." Commetrex is exhibiting BladeWare Email2Fax at the Internet Telephony Expo and Conference to be held in Los Angeles (CA) on September 16 - 18th.