Take the money you’d spend on a fax machine, and put it into an online fax service, such as eFax, and invest in a piece of software to….
Insert your own signature.
With this combination, I haven’t needed a fax machine in years.
All you have to do is take a good picture of your signature (preferably black ink on white paper), convert the image to black and white, and trim it.
Once you have that signature image file, save it somewhere you’ll remember.
I use PDFPen on my MacBook Pro to insert the image and “fill out” forms to fax in. Once the necessary changes are made, the PDF file is loaded into eFax and sent.
If you receive an MS Word Doc, just use OpenOffice to save it as a PDF before editing in PDFPen.
So. Easy.
One less piece of machinery and waste, more accessibility, and more flexibility.
Even if everything screws up, take it to Kinkos or a friend. But that’s extremely rare. If you need something scanned, lots of places (Kinkos, Staples, etc) will do that for you and get you the PDF.
It’s a pretty easy decision.