[kayodelycaon]

How many fax lines still go to a physical machine that prints on paper?

It’s a lot less paper to have a pdf of the fax emailed.

[apical_dendrite]

You'd be surprised how many doctors still rely on a physical fax machine.

[kayodelycaon]

I was thinking of doctors offices and pharmacies when I asked. My doctor has a physical fax machine in the back of the office.

I was hoping things might be a little bit more advanced elsewhere. It hurts my soul to see people print a document to fax it before throwing it away.

I was going to say it would be nice if you would just choose a fax machine from the print dialogue. You can… if it’s set up. Sigh.

[efreak]

You can do the reverse, too. Hook up a dial-up modem to your PC and you can send and receive faxes on it. The software is built-in, though you'll probably want to configure it not to receive faxes automatically on your landline unless it's dedicated for that purpose. This has been built into Windows since at least Windows xp, probably been possible since 3.x. There's also Linux and probably Mac software available too. In Windows 11, I think the fax program isn't installed by default anymore, you might have to add it via optionalfeatures.exe.