Free Fax Software


It is said that good communication is good business. And in order to make good business one has to be constantly in touch with one’s business partners. There is of course a great variety of communication means these days. But if we take a quick look at communication history, we will be amazed by the speed with which communication means developed in a relatively short time. First it was the classic letter, then the telephone, followed by fax and now we have e-mail.

When it first appeared, fax messaging was considered to be state of the art as the technology allowed the transmission of the exact replica of the original document to the recipient within seconds over long distances. Of course, nowadays this applies to e-mails. Nevertheless, there are quite a lot of people still fond of fax as means of communication. For them precisely, but not only, software developers thought to combine the old technology with the new one. The need to stay in touch with the technological advances led to the creation of fax software. Internet faxing presents certain advantages in comparison with the classic technology, such as: low price, a greener office (as we no longer need to use paper either to send or to receive faxes), more space as we can store the messages on the computer, and speed.



Fax software is basically of two types: freeware, which means that you can use the software completely free of charge for unlimited periods of time, and shareware, which means that you get the software free for a limited period of time and at the expiry of the trial period you are required to buy the full version. Here are some of the most popular and easy to use types of free fax software: qFreeFax is a small open source application used for sending fax on the Internet. The program is easy to install on any platform (Windows, Mac or Linux). It allows users to send fax quickly.

FaxAmatic is another great little shareware software for sending and receiving faxes. The software adds a fax printer driver to the system thus permitting to fax from any document and to transmit the document to any fax machine. The program is compatible with Windows versions from 95 to XP. Another free fax software called HP Digital Sending Software is offer by HP together with multifunction peripherals.

The fax software will send the documents to their respective recipients and the recipients will get the documents through their fax machines. The program supports: Microsoft Fax, Local Area Network (LAN) Fax, and Internet Fax.



MightyFax is one of the most used fax programs today. Mostly because it presents itself with a user-friendly interface. The program sends and receives faxes in an easy and simple way. The software comes with a series of well-defined features. From among them we could mention the ability to send and receive faxed documents from all over the world, the possibility to keep track of faxing communications due to the program’s log system.

The software is compatible with most fax modems and the output of faxes is Windows Bitmap files or TIFF files. The best thing about this fax software is that there are periodical updates and improvements to the program.


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