Today, paperless faxing is widely gaining acceptance just like the email over-powering postal mail. A regular fax machine falls short when compared to the high quality characteristics of paperless faxing. Imagine how many reams of paper can be preserved on a daily basis if paperless faxing is adopted and the ordinary fax machine is abandoned in the corporate or domestic scenario.

In a year the U.S. is said to use about 200 billion pages of paper just through faxing! With such a large number of wastage of paper, a small reduction in its use can lead to large amounts of trees being saved. Also, paper does not only involve cutting of trees, but also the consumption of fuel, water and human energy during distribution of paper. So saving on paper would lead to less demand of such resources as well.

If we saved 10% by using email faxing, we can save electrical energy equal to the amount needed to power the New York subway for more than 2 months. This would also save around 700 million gallons of water that can supply the city of Philadelphia for two complete days. That very same percentage can also help us stop air pollution of around 6 million pounds, that is about as much of harmful gases produced by 500 cars in one year.

So, how would paperless faxing affect you? Faxing by email exhibits an edge over conventional fax machine because of its feature of allowing you to send a range of computer programs and not only content that can be put on paper. You can fax files that you use daily like MS Word, MS Excel or MS PowerPoint.

Also with paperless faxing, you can send faxes from almost anywhere through its applications on smart phones. You never need to wait for the fax machine to be free and in working condition. You never need to get up and go to the fax machine. You never will need to wait for each individual page of fax to be sent when faxing multiple pages.

Email faxing is also secure. This is an advantage since your account is protected by a password and you can use your email account to send and receive faxes. Anti-virus systems deliver added security to the fax-to-email serves which are otherwise secure.

Paperless fax services also do not need installation and can be acquired easily through credit card payments. Signup hardly takes a minute and no phone line of extra hardware is needed. All you need to do is signup which is done in a few clicks.

An email account and an internet connection is all you require. The advantage is the assurance that there will be no delays due to paper jams, busy lines and empty cartridges because everything is handled online and in exceptional quality.