=?Utf-8?B?UmVkTW9vc2g=?= <Re******@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in
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thanks for your respond. i think we are going to develop it in-house.
do you have any suggestions for bulk faxing? someone told me that
windows fax api is available that we can use. i don't seem to find
much reference to it.
The company I work at took a look at the Windows Fax Service for fax
blasting. I found a couple articles on Google - it didn't seem too hard to
fax via the Windows API. Unfortunately I can't seem to find the articles at
the moment...
However, the major limitation with fax blasting is the # of lines you have.
Depending on your fax throughput ... I would definately look at a service
provider. Faxes ties up phones lines for a long time (average 1 page fax is
~20 - 30s?). A large fax server will require costly hardware. Not to
mention, if you're faxing with standard phone lines your phone bill will be
through the roof!
Fax services are nice to use - typically you transmit a
bmp/tiff/xml/doc/text/etc via a webservice, the fax service then sends out
the message on your behalf.