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A program like MightyFax or MightyFaxNT also act as standalone fax software and insert a printer driver. But it comes up and asks for a phone number and recipient and whether to send now or schedule for later. Others would likely do the same. To control it from within your program, you would have to use a .dll or add-on library, or write your own.

Key again, though, is that you and your clients would have to have fax-enabled modems attached to phonelines. Or you would have to look for a standalone fax that can be networked. An alternative is a fax subscription service on the internet, where you send your fax as a file and it dials it out from there. Some fax services claim to be national in scope, meaning that the call they then make would likely be a local one.

The fact is though, that fax is rapidly falling into obsolecence. It has much less flexability than file attachments and email, and is relatively slow (9600 bps or less). It is usually black and whie, and has a low pixel count, so the results are likely poor. You cannot control the quality of the fax sent, and if it comes out grainy, too light, or too dark, so that it cannot be read, there is often little recourse to getting it resent, unless the person sending included a cover sheet with name and phone number on it. It is often received in the public area, meaning it can be mishandled, tossed out, picked up by the wrong partty, or neglected.