Thanks Jon. I probably would have used Updox a long time ago had I not started using F.A.P months before. It is still an incredible program.
We should make sure that everyone who reads this is on the apples to oranges page. An MFC should always fax out and receive faxes in paper. That is, obviously, standard. Depending on the cost or quality of the fax machine, you can look at the specs and make sure it has a "fax server." Many times, you have to order this separately and, installed, is about $250.00. That is what allows you the ability to receive faxes to pdf and to print to fax.
When I was looking at Muratec, Xerox, HP and Toshiba before I had a fax server on the server which was separate, the key to my decision was always the GUI of the program on the computer to allow print to fax. Most were an afterthought and were more of a hindrance. The best example is how programs like Medware and Lytec spend years and 50 developers on the billing, then maybe ten minutes on the scheduler.
Windows Fax and Scan generally works very well with the fax servers. Personally, if I were to purchase an MFC in the price range we are talking about (more than Sandeep's Canon for sure), I would just purchase it with the fax server. I think for many, the sales people don't really teach the average person the difference between the walk-up faxing capabilities and the ability to receive faxes by paper with a fax server. I would be like Mike, no lol, be like why do I need to buy a fax server to use my fax machine?
While we are on the topic, and this is a glitch with Surescripts, which is absolutely crazy. Surescripts decides what you can write or not write in certain fields of eRx. Like whether you can use a comma or ? (which you can't) in the Pharmacy Note. You are also limited in what you put in the dispense field. This may have changed in newer versions over 9.2, but you cannot write the word "boxes" in the dispense field. You have to type "boxs." It's embarrassing.
