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OK, let's say you need to print something, but you don't have a printer.  For some reason you have a fax machine, but no printer.  Seems strange, but I *might* know someone like that.  Well, what do you do?

A long time ago, I always thought that in that situation, I'd go ahead and find some way to e-mail fax the document to myself and turn it to a hard copy.  Seemed easy enough, but why not get a printer instead?  Well, as it turns out, I needed to print something quickly, didn't have time to buy a printer (have I mentioned that there are far too many printer options out there), and was staring at my fax machine cursing it's lack of inputs.  But, that's when I decided to put my plan into motion.

So I scoured the internet for something that would do my dirty work.  That's when I stumbled on Fax Zero.  It's an ad-driven service that gives you three (3) free faxes a day, and all you have to put up with is an Ad on your coverpage.  "PERFECT," I exclaimed in my head.  It seems that they are able to take PDF as input (as well as a few others document types) and then you tell them where to send it to (which, of course, is myself) and off it goes.  In less than five minutes, I suddenly get a phone call, and soon after a hard copy of my PDF document.

I still don't have a printer.  I should remedy that.

Tags: faxprinting