Paperless Office: Faxes

A contact told me yesterday that the way he handles incoming faxes for his paperless office is to:

1. Receive the fax (paper) from a traditional fax machine.
2. Scan it to a PDF file.

I suggested that he instead:

1. Receive the fax via Winfax on his computer or use an online fax service.
2. Print the fax to a PDF file.

The second approach reduces time because scanning can be time consuming. This also increases the quality of the PDF image because each time a document is scanned at 300 dpi the quality of the image is somewhat reduced.