Multifunctionals

Multifunction Peripherals (MFP's) or multifunctional printers/scanners/copiers that scan, copy, print, and fax, are appearing more and more in business environments. Having more MFP’s means introducing new opportunities for your business and users to communicate as well as create new maintenance and administrative challenges. 

In order to fax via a MFP you either have to connect it to the telephone network or better integrate it with the Fenestrae fax server software.

Connecting multiple MFP’s to the telephone network brings a package of disadvantages.

Disadvantages:

• You need to buy special hardware (modem, module)
• You need multiple telephone lines/numbers
• More maintenance and administration
• Risk of losing faxes (i.e. when the MFP is turned off)
• Paper depending (no paper, no incoming faxes)
• Storage of faxes is time and space consuming
• You cannot access your faxes 24/7
• You can only send and receive faxes when the phone line is available

However integrating your MFP devices with Fenestrae Fax software gives you only advantages:

• No extra hardware needed (no maintenance)
• Least-cost routing through fax-over-IP or remote fax servers/device
• Reduce the number of telephone lines/numbers
• Cut telephone bills
• 24/7 availability
• Faxes are directly routed to your inbox or public/shared folder or even distribution lists
• Delivery notifications can be sent to your inbox
• No lost faxes
• Central archival repository for all sent and received messages

For more information about the support of MFP’s with the Fenestrae Communication Server software, read more about the Fenestrae MFP connector or contact us directly.