I use a slightly different system than most users. I use a Mainpine fax modem. The driver directly outputs faxes to PDF. There is no TIF intermediate as with Brother/Paperport combo. Wendell is right about the ink savings. We used to order ink every 2 months. Now it's more like 6 months to 12 months. We get over 1500 faxes a month, some of those are 30-60 pages. It looks just like a printer/integrated with windows fax console/windows fax and scan. Since it's integrated with windows, you can control permissions, i.e. fax administrators, fax users, etc. The price was around ~350-400 for it. But due to the high volume of faxes we receive, I opted for it. Almost went with another US Robotics fax modem, but we used to get complaints all the time about that modem i.e. faxes not sending, being received, duplicates, etc.. It paid itself off rather quickly.