Just The Fax

Leslie needs to get some information to Dick ASAP! This is Leslie's usual mode; everything's left to the last minute. She relies on her fax machine for her emergency transmissions. But faxing doesn't always work for her. Although her fax transmissions are received perfectly by Dick's fax machine, sometimes the messages are picked up by the wrong person, and therefore are not delivered promptly. Then there's the times that Dick is traveling; his fax machine doesn't travel with him, so Leslie's messages just pile up. Leslie has invented a three step process to ensure her messages are received -- 1. She calls Dick to tell him a fax is coming, 2. She sends the fax, then 3. she calls Dick to see if he has received the fax. Good plan, but her cost of delivery just went up by a factor of three -- three phone calls instead of one.

But Dick has just installed a Salutation Fax Machine. This device supports receipt notification, inbound routing, and read confirmation. Now when Leslie sends her emergency document, it is received and held by the fax machine until Dick logs in. It doesn't mater where Dick is -- in his office, at home or on the road, the Salutation Fax machine recognizes his user ID and password, then reports to him on any faxes received since he last logged in. Dick can then direct the fax machine to route the messages it is storing to his location. This includes his LAN printer at the office, to his personal printer at home or to his lap top while he is on the road. Since the fax machine has Salutation, it is able to detect the capabilities of the devices at the various locations and reformat the stored faxes accordingly. There is even a feature that will perform a text-to-speech transform if it detects that Dick is calling in form a phone. After Dick retrieves his messages, the Salutation enabled fax machine will provide a read confirmation to the sender of the original fax as a call-back fax to the originating device's phone number.

All this technology is too much for Leslie to comprehend. But she knows that faxing is one again a one step process, with Dick receiving her messages wherever he is, and she gets a confirmation message when he has read it.