| An electronic fax machine is a machine used to send | | | | being replaced by email faxing. Email faxing is so |
| information via pulses over the phone line. It consists of | | | | cheap and efficient compared to the electronic fax |
| a modem, a scanner, and a printer. Basically, an | | | | machine that it leaves the technology of the old, bulky |
| electronic fax machine scans the document you send | | | | dinosaurs basically in the dust. Unlike fax machines, |
| through it, be it pictures, text, or whatever. It then | | | | email doesn't waste ink printing out everything, it |
| transmits that data over the phone lines to another fax | | | | doesn't jam, isn't big and bulky, and you don't need a |
| machine. The receiving machine would then print the | | | | separate, expensive phone line tied up to use it. You |
| data out, either in black and white or color, depending | | | | simply use the internet, and your computer. The |
| one what type of fax machine you had. | | | | software required to email fax is also extremely |
| Fax machines were first made popular in Japan, as | | | | cheap when held up against the cost of an expensive |
| typing their alphabet was much more time consuming | | | | fax machine. |
| than writing it by hand. The popularity of the fax | | | | While one cannot deny that in its day, the fax machine |
| machine grew as the technology that drove it became | | | | was incredible; one also needs to realize that in today's |
| more and more inexpensive, and soon, the entire world | | | | world of high-speed communication, the fax machine is |
| used fax machines. Many fax machines included a | | | | very out classed by computers and the internet. The |
| phone, and many newer fax machines were included | | | | speed, ease of use, and cheap prices of computers |
| in a unit that also came equipped with a scanner, | | | | and software have very much killed the electronic fax |
| printer, and copier. | | | | machine. |
| Nowadays, the electronic fax machine is basically | | | | |
