Thank you, Bonnie. I will check them out.

>Hi Dmitry,
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>I've used uReach for many years. I got their service back in the late 90's when I needed a toll-free number for phone and fax. I see they now have a "fax-only" service called uFax (http://www.ureach.com/home/ufax.htm). I don't know if they have on-demand pricing, but it looks like uFax is currently $5.99/month.
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>~~Bonnie
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>>>>Hi,
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>>>>I am looking for a way to receive faxes sent to my office fax machine as emails (for the times when I am traveling). Google points me to a couple of services that do that (e.g. eFax). I understand that I would have to get the service that I choose, they would assign a fax number for me and then I would forward my fax phone line to this number (am I correct?). The cost seem to be reasonable (about 6-10 dollars a month). But I only need it a couple of times a year when I traveling. Has anybody used these type of services "on demand", just when you need them? And how was the quality?
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>>>I worked with one company that was using IrisTel for fax-to-email. Worked fine. IIRC the faxes came through as TIFF attachments at standard fax resolution (200dpi).
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>>>Depending on what your fax machine actually is, you may already have suitable capability. Many recent all-in-one (AIO) devices (print/copy/scan/fax) have "fax forwarding". This can be one of two types:
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>>>Conventional: you specify the number of another fax machine. When your device receives a fax, it stores it in memory, then calls the other fax machine and sends the fax. This could be useful if you know, in advance, a fax machine where you will be.
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>>>Fax-to-email: you can specify an e-mail address, and the AIO device will convert incoming faxes for you and send to that address.
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>>>I believe some networked AIOs can send received faxes as files to a network share (maybe even FTP?). If you can remote in you could get the faxes that way.
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>>>You could install a basic fax modem in a PC and set up fax software. When you travel, unplug the fax phone line from the fax machine and connect it to the PC. You could remote in to the PC to get the faxes, or depending on what the PC fax software can do, it could forward the faxes the same way as described for the AIO above.
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>>I will look up IrisTel. Unfortunately I have 2 fax machines (one very old and another HP ALL-IN-ONE) but neither one supports "forwarding" faxes to another device. I have checked that option. I think I will have to go with just getting the service (like IrisTel, as you mentioned, or RingCental or eFax). I understand that they will assign me a fax number to which I will forward. Then they will email the fax to a designated email. This is how I understand it will work. I wish my telephone provider (Comcast) would offer this service; this would be the easiest for me to implement.
>>Thank you.