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Fax Machines, Office Faxes, Canon, Panasonic, Brother and Philips Faxes

Faxes are a technology that utilizes printing and telephony to transmit documents across large distances and print them on the other side. A fax machine (or facsimile machine) is essentially a printer and a photocopier in one. A document is fed through the fax machine where it is photocopied and instead of being printed it transmits the document across a telephone line to another fax machine elsewhere in the world where it is printed.

Like printers it is very important to make sure the correct type of fax machine is selected to join your office equipment as the volume of faxes you receive through one machine mean that for heavy use, you should invest in a fax machine with large buffer memory and fast printing.

UK Fax Machine Suppliers

Leading suppliers of fax machines to the UK office equipment market are Brother, Canon, Philips & Panasonic. Fax machines work on a similar principle to printers in how they deliver print to a page. Some fax machines use a ribbon system much like old dot matrix printers where rather than ink droplets falling onto a page, a ribbon is used to impress print to the page using an ink ribbon. The majority of current fax machines available use ink cartridges to print the incoming fax document by dropping liquid ink across the page in a tight and microscopic pattern to product print.

As laser technology has taken flight in the printer market, it has also caught the attention of the major fax machine manufactures such as Brother & Panasonic who produce laser fax machines that use toner powder instead of liquid ink to print documents. Although laser is mostly used by offices looking for fast bulk printing, the large manufactures such as Brother have discovered that busy offices want the fastest fax machines possible and by using laser technology and toner powder rather than ink they can provide almost instant prints from even a small fax machine.