Send a FREE FAX via your computer. This is not email, but a true fax. no fax machine needed, no phone needed, and no software needed ... but you do have to have a way to get your document into your computer. You can find several free fax sites by googling "free fax" but I found this site and really like it
http://faxzero.com/
First ... get your document into your computer. I used my scanner for the document I needed to send.... but I later tested a photo and faxed it to myself (I have a fax number, comes to my email as an attachment), and that worked too.. The pdf conversion worked great and photo looked identical, but when faxed it was converted to black and white or grayscale. ... so you can take a photo of your doc to get it into your computer and that would probably work just fine for faxing.
Next .... you have to be sure it's a pdf file. If it isn't, you can get it instantly converted at this site, and they email it back to you as a pdf
https://online.primopdf.com/Default.aspx or you can download the software into your computer for free.
After you have your document as a pdf... then go to
http://faxzero.com/ and fill in the info and send it. For free, you can send a max of 2 1-page faxes per day, or, you can send more faxes for $1.99 each, or you can send a large fax with a max of 15 pages for $1.99 ... BUT you can send 2 faxes per email address, so send 2 from one email address and then send 2 from another. I've done this several times and it does work. I needed to send a 4-page fax so sent it as 4 separate 1-page faxes, 2 pages from one email address and 2 from another.
When it gets there, they email you a confirmation that it was sent and arrived.
HOW TO RECEIVE FAXES VIA YOUR COMPUTER
You can get a free fax number for receiving faxes at several sites. You can google the words "free fax" to find several, but efax is one of the most popular. However, when you get a free fax number you will be required to receive faxes they send which are advertising,. Efax doesn't send a lot, but you are required to get them in order to have the fax number.
I use the fax option at
http://www.onesuite.com/ which costs $1 per month. I'd rather pay a dollar a month than to get the advertising.
In all of these, incoming faxes come to your email account as an email and the fax is an attachment. Then you can print it on your printer. One of the great perks about this is that you don't have to be where your fax machine is in order to receive a fax, it comes to your email and you can access it and view it wherever you are. But of course, you do need to have a printer, or access to one, in order to get a printed copy.
