What is the best way to setup network faxing for a small office?
jsssika asked:
Our company would like to implement a network faxing solution so we could fax from our pcs instead of from the fax machine. We currently have a sharp fo-dc535 fax machine which has networking capability and one server running Windows Server 2003. I am wondering if we are going to need to buy another server to handle the faxing or if we can just use our existing server. We fax about 100 docs a day back and forth so the volume is not that high, I just have never put a network fax solution in place. Also, if anyone knows of other things we will need to put in place to implement this I would appreciate that info. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Our company would like to implement a network faxing solution so we could fax from our pcs instead of from the fax machine. We currently have a sharp fo-dc535 fax machine which has networking capability and one server running Windows Server 2003. I am wondering if we are going to need to buy another server to handle the faxing or if we can just use our existing server. We fax about 100 docs a day back and forth so the volume is not that high, I just have never put a network fax solution in place. Also, if anyone knows of other things we will need to put in place to implement this I would appreciate that info. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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From checking out the PDF file in the sources area, it looks like it’s a function of the print driver. Possibly a menu selection or different driver needs to be installed for faxing capabilities?
As for the server. Depends on what kind of hardware its on as to if it can handle it and what else is installed on it. If there’s nothing else, and it’s a small business, and you’re not faxing 50 – 60 pages / fax, you should be ok running it. If it’s just a DC doing fileshareing, I’d say you should be ok. Take a base line of the server prior to setting up the fax solution and have a few select users start to use the fax capabilities, and monitor it again. If the new monitor readings spike a lot higher than the original base line, you know you’ll need a new server.
For light duty faxing, I don’t think it should be a problem unless the driver does some type of document converstion on the server as opposed to the workstation.