A Horrible Fax Machine!

Advantages: ... it's a fax machine
Disadvantages: EVERYTHING

...I warn my readers that this could be a raging review since I just threw this fax machine into the bin. Not only it costed me more than £30 two years ago but for the little times I've needed it it hardly worked properly. This morning I was trying to send a fax and the paper kept jamming into the rolls... but let's proceed in order. This Olivetti Fax-Lab is one of those product that you always see in offer (and for a reason), a couple of years ago they costed even up to £60-£70 but I found mine with a 40% discount so, since I often needed to fax documents and stuff like that, I bought it without second thoughts Later on I found out that I didn't need to fax documents SO often to justify purchasing a fax machine but still, it has been useful sometimes. But most of the times it was dreadful (read problems later on) THE MACHINE...

EVIT 29.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Olivetti FAX-LAB 100

YOU WANT THE FAX

Advantages: Reliable brand, good after sale service
Disadvantages: Large amount of room taken up

...write this opinion was the CIAO instructions themselves. Namely Helpful point Number one: ?When writing your opinion, please try to imagine a user who will have to make a buying decision soon and needs your help? (Hmm, get an email address and a good laser printer). Ok Stop it, stop it, Helen. Now for those of you who left school/college/university in the late 1990?s and don?t know a fax machine from your own elbow, here is an industry definition to make things clearer:- Facsimile: A system which provides a facility to transmit an exact copy of the image on a piece of paper from one location to another. Ok, now I have cleared that up, problem number two. Maybe my Fax Machine is no longer in production and therefore I would have a hard job recommending its purchase to my fellow readers (unless they also shop at www...

helencbradshaw 01.04.2002 · Read review
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Review of Brother 1020E Plain Paper

eFax.com - Definately the best free fax service

Advantages: Free fax number, no need to have a dedicated fax line
Disadvantages: None

...eFax.com is definately the best free fax to e-mail service around today. I presently have two free fax numbers with them. One is a USA fax number and one is a UK fax number. Since I do business with some companies in the States it works out cheaper for them to send me faxes on a local USA fax number. They are incredibly fast. Just to test it out I sent a fax to my own number and checked my e-mail after just 30 seconds and presto it was in my Inbox. It's really easy to download the viewer from their site. Another plus point is that you can send this fax as an e-mail to others or save as a file just at the click of a button. If the person your sending the fax to my e-mail has the software then you send the message as it is. If they don't then you send it with the viewer. It gives you both options. They have many...

vinodgm 06.06.2001 · Read review
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Review of eFax

No Fax Machine - No Problem

Advantages: Free - Easy - Quick - Reliable
Disadvantages: Requires a 380k download to read faxes

...thermal paper to worry about! The fax can be zoomed in and out, rotated (why do some people insist of faxing stuff upside down?) and stored as thumbnails for easy filing. The service is completely free for 0870 numbers, although, for a monthly fee of $9.95 you can have a local rate 0845 fax number instead with the added ability to send email to fax anywhere in the world for a few cents a minute. Sending faxes to your free eFax is cheaper than sending to many stand-alone fax machines as the modem speed is faster. eFax can also be set up (optionally) as a telephone answering machine – now quaintly known as “voice mail”. There are obvious advantages to using this free service: ! No need to buy a fax machine ! No need to free up a line for incoming faxes ! No cost ! Receive faxes anywhere that has Internet...

john.sw 14.12.2000 (13.06.2001) · Read review
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Review of eFax

Big Brother

Advantages: A Lot
Disadvantages: Could not find any

...I had to set up an office on a shoestring. Well, actually it was in what used to be my sitting room but you know what I mean. One of the things we needed was a plain paper fax. I used to have one of those giant toilet roll jobs but that was very inconvenient with long documents and kept getting jammed up. Anyway, we bought one of these machines and it has sat between me and my partner in crime for about eighteen months. Now I will be truthful. I wasn't intending to write about this machine and had resolved that today I would just read what others had written and keep my mouth shut. But I have just had an experience with this machine that prompted me to write. It needed a new cartridge. Have you ever noticed that the ink always runs out in the middle of receiving a fax? Funny that... Now, I've changed a cartridge before on this...

booby 25.04.2003 · Read review
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Review of Brother FAX 1030E Plain Paper

Free Fax Machine

Advantages: Free, convenient
Disadvantages: None experienced

...of fax machines and jamming paper?...

Kristian 06.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of eFax

Great Machine!

Advantages: Quick Work-Out, Cheaper than Power Plates, Great Results
Disadvantages: Only tones your body, doesnt keep you fit.

...This machine is simply a must if you want to tone yourself up and not have the hassle of going to the gym for hours each week! I bought one of these off Ebay, and now so glad i did. Its simply an amazing piece of kit. My Personal Experience At first i thought, surely this machine cant be as good as i've been reading all over the net, people must be exagerating and just trying to sell the machine. How wrong i was.... The first time i used this, i trained at level 10 (ranges from 1-20) thinking i can take it at that level no problem, and sure enough i was ok, i did a few different positions for my legs, stomache and arms. I trained for about 10 minutes, as i wanted to see how much this would actualy do, and sales reports tell me that 10minutes of using this machine is equivelent to 1 hour at the gym. Boy oh boy did i feel it...

Mark_K 27.03.2008 (28.03.2008) · Read review
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Review of Crazy Fit Vibration Massage Plate Exercise Machine

An average fax/modem

Advantages: Faster page downloads
Disadvantages: user manual not very good

...Information given on the box: - 56Kbps download speed - Specifications according to the latest modem standards V.92 - Send and receive faxes - For use with portable computers V.92 benefits: - Modem on hold: take phone-calls while online - Quick connect: Faster internet connection - New V.44 compression: downloads internet pages up to double speed Key benefits: Modem: - data compression - reliable error correction - completely compatible - CTR-21 European approved Fax: - Adjustable fax pages - send in groups - can be programmed beforehand - telephone/fax lists - print faxes on your computer Package contains: - PC Card V.92 Fax/modem - Fax and data communication software - Telephone cable and plug - Windows driver System requirements: - IBM PC or compatible (Pentium 166MMX) with PCMCIA port - 16MB RAM...

minichar 17.07.2004 · Read review
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Review of Sitecom Fax / Modem

great value for money

Advantages: robust, long-lasting and good value
Disadvantages: sometimes a pain to use

...fax was, but it wasn't Samsung). I'm very pleased with the Samsung on this. The samsung is also nice and compact and well-designed: it looks like it cost a lot more than the £200-odd it actually does cost. In fact this nearly put us off buying it as we thought it might disguise a shoddy product but we were wrong. Furthermore, it's an ink-jet which means that the ink lasts a lot longer than on faxes that use that funny carbon-paper roll stuff (again, our old fax was one of these). In fact we haven't had to change the ink cartridge yet, so I'm afraid I don't know exactly how much they cost, but I'm assuming they're comparable to the price of printer ink-jet cartridges. As with many of these things, it also functions as a copier and you can change the size/ darkness setting on the output: generally very useful. The downside...

madlucy 29.03.2002 · Read review
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Review of Samsung SF-3100/T Inkjet Plain Paper Fax

Samsung SF3100T for under 200 pounds

Advantages: Low lost, high specification fax/copier/answer machine
Disadvantages: none that I can see so far

...In the Samsung SF3100T I’ve finally found a value for money feature rich machine after hunting around for a couple of weeks for a combined ‘fax/copier/phone/answer phone’. One of the key criteria was A4 plain paper, inkjet engine, small footprint and easy to use, because the entire family need to be able to use the fax and also change the consumables and paper when I’m not around. I aslo wanted a reasonable handset a hands free microphone for normal business telephony. Interestingly I trawled around several main white goods outlets and found it difficult to get a machine from stock …there appeared to be very few types on offer. I could have short-circuited the whole process by going mail order but I wanted to see the goods and kick the tyres. Staff in the Comet, Curry’s, Dixons type stores haven...

runmedownmissy 14.04.2001 (15.04.2001) · Read review
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Review of Samsung SF-3100/T Inkjet Plain Paper Fax