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Originally Posted by LOAD IT
Does anyone use a scanner versus faxing?
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I use both. If you are going to fax out of your truck you're going to need some sort of scanning device.
I'm a computer junky (15 years in pc's before pushing this truck down the road) so my truck is pretty set up. In fact my lap top wasn't powerful enough and since I do graphic editing, and video editing I needed a better machine but didn't want to pay the money for a laptop so I built my home pc right into the truck.
My printer/copier/scanner absalutly rocks. Problem is not all companies (brokers) will take email as a way to recieve data. So you're stuck faxing until the industry is used to guys out here actually using technowledgy.
Some places will take a pdf file if you can scan data in and convert to pdf. Sounds complicate but really it's rather easy. If you download "openoffice.org" it's like MS OFFICE only it's free. you open up the "writer" (equivilant to ms word) you scan your pages into the writer document, click the little pdf button on the menu bar and bingo you have a pdf file that almost anyone can read anywhere, and/or works nicely to fax attached to an email via myfax and or other fax services.