Hq Resolution Online Faxing Gives Your Marketing Campaigns a New Chance

Popfax demonstrates that faxing is not only still alive in companies, not only one of the few direct marketing media that manages a rate of almost 100% read messages, but also that faxing (properly used within the Popfax environment) is the proper media for sending your high quality campaign images.

Everybody thinks that direct marketing is better than faxing because of the prejudice that the fax image won’t reach the target audience. Popfax online fax provider tried to change, considering that if the user picks the right design for the massage image, uses the Popfax professional tools to convert it into black and white and the Popfax algorithm, the results can reach the astonishing quality.

Digital document content can vary from plain text to image-only, and everything in between. Popfax provides its customers with the possibility to choose the most appropriate fax conversion depending on the content. When sending faxes, customers can choose between two document conversion modes:

·         “Black & white thresholding”: This option is more adapted to text content, so that the readability of the text is improved.
·         “Grey and colors dithering”: This document conversion algorithm renders colors and greyscale via black and white dot patterns with different densities, retaining the look and feel of colors and gray zones for pictures and logos, but at the price of reduced text readability.

Both options are exclusive of each other, the overall fax content design might have to be optimized for either one or the other of the conversion algorithms.

Fax quality in terms of image resolution depends on the capabilities of the sender’s and of the receiver’s equipment: the initial discussion between the two fax machines picks the highest resolution within the set of mutual capabilities. From this perspective, Popfax fax servers provide the highest level of standards and compatibility with all types of receiving fax machines.
By default, Popfax sends in fine resolution. Fine mode fax is 204 x 196 dpi. If the receiver has the same resolution available, they will receive the fax in fine resolution. If the receiver can only receive in low/normal resolution, then they will receive their fax in low/normal resolution.

For text messages it is recommended to use the “Black & White thresholding” method, which is the default option. However, for the needs of a specific campaign it might need to fax a detailed photo or image. In this case, use “Grey & Colors dithering”, but expect the fax to take longer to transmit than average. To lower the sending time, try to optimize the content to keep the image weight (after conversion) below 50KB. An estimated transmission time is given at conversion in the accounts of Popfax Faxmailers.

Nearly all companies are using the fax services, which makes fax mailing a universal B2B direct marketing resource, and potentially the most efficient! About 98 % of faxes received are read, as there are no (or very few) anti-spam filters. Users can use fax mailings to broadcast information to the existing clients (newsletters, launches of new features, surveys, etc.) or to search for new potential clients.

More on: http://www.popfax.com

Popfax updated its application for Android to Version 3.4

Popfax the Online Fax Provider updated its application for Android which allows its users to create faxes using (camera scan to fax), a better and easier fax organisation and an automatic synchronization of all fax transmissions prepared in offline mode.
Popcompanion for Android meets all the user’s needs to efficiently organize their Internet fax communication. Popfax users can now take advantage of all the Android features for images, documents, smart folders and system browsing of specific online fax operations.
What have changed with the Android Version 3.4:
-The updated fax app for Android allows users to see all their faxes in one place. The Inbox, Outbox and Folders are now grouped in PopfaxBox – to ensure easy access to all faxes locations.

-Large and Multiple file attachments:

Now users can send by fax large files of up to 8MB or attach 3 files at the same time.

Multiple ways of fax creation:
Popcompanion 3.4 for Android supports numerous tools for of fax creation:
-importing files from Android Gallery.
-taking one or several pictures with the camera and then cropping, rotating and adjusting them before sending by fax. (The following file formats are supported by Popcompanion Mobile: DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, ODT, ODS, SXW, ODP, PDF, PS, BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, TIF, TIFF, EPS, RTF, TXT )
-browsing files from any section/folder on the Android device.

Offline mode
For the first time Popcompanion mobile for Android supports the so called “offline mode”. Users can log in to the application offline if they have already logged into the application once while in online. Enhancements that improve usability include:
-Users can queue faxes in offline for sending later when the network is available.
-Users can create contacts in offline mode.
-Users can cache files while in online to access them later while in offline.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS : The Popcompanion Mobile app supports devices running Android platform versions Android 2.1+

more on: http://www.popfax.com

5 useful tips to help you get started with Popfax service

Popfax is one of the leading online fax providers, that allows it users to send faxes all over the world in a few seconds.
With its features Popfax users can send fax straight from their smartphone and also receive them in real time.

 

Send and Receive Faxes online
Your Popfax account allows you to receive and receive faxes:
-from any web-browser
-from the email box connected to your Popfax account
-from desktop of your PC with Popfax printer-driver
-from mobile devices using the mobile site or the mobile application

Organize your faxes
Manage your faxes more efficiently. The Document Management tools allow you to organize, personalise, sign faxes, insert cover page, etc.

Find faxes fast
With Popfax OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature enabled in your Account settings section, you can quickly find the important faxes you need with suggestions based on faxes content, sender’s and receiver’s details.

Registered fax
Certify the sensitive fax content using the “Registered fax” patented system.

Get Popfax on your mobile device
The Popfax Internet Fax Service is available in Popfax official apps for iPhone and iPad as well as for Android devices. It’s easy to scan and fax documents from your mobile device.

source: http://www.popfax.com

Popfax printer-driver now compatible with Windows 8

Popfax printer-driver has been updated to version 3.20. This latest version is compatible with Windows 8. Downoad the fax software 
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Popfax Printer is a printer driver software created to help you send faxes from your computer.
When you need to send fax, all you have to do is open a document and select the Popfax Printer from the printing devices. 

Once you are connected to the dedicated server, the software automatically converts your file to a TIFF FAX G3 format and sends it to the specified fax machine.

You can enable simultaneous transfer to multiple fax destinations. The program also support several input file formats, including DOC, ODT, SXW, PDF, BMP, GIF, RTF and TXT.
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Popfax Promo Sharing Contest has announced its winner

Popfax has announced the winner of a full refund in its Promo Sharing Contest, which took place in December 2013 and January 2014, alongside the Special Winter Promotion.

The Popfax Winter Promotion is over. Customers who purchased the Promotional Offer were asked to share a short message about their subscription on Facebook, Twitter or G+, in order to be in with a chance of having their purchase refunded. All shares and entries have been collected, and a winner has been selected through a random 1/100 draw.

The winner of the Full refund of promo purchase of our Winter Promo Sharing Contest is AAF International.

Popfax Online Fax provider thanks its customers for their trust in Popfax services and for sharing the Winter Promotional Offer on social media sites.

source: http://www.popfax.com

Popfax achievements over 2013

During 2013, Popfax the online fax provider has continued to provide an increasing number of companies and public authorities all over the world with access to a fast, easy and trustworthy means of fax communication. Over the last 12 months, remarkable progress has been made in the quality, mobility, reliability and fax service speed.

Increasing entire system capacity: The Memory, Computer Power and Data Storage was doubled or even tripled in order to improve the quality, reliability and speed of the fax service in the future.

To further provide businesses of all sizes with fast and secure online fax service, Popfax has enhanced its entire cloud system – especially in the area of hardware computing power, memory and data storage capacity – to cope with the growth of its customer base, which numbers more than 50,000 professional and corporate fax users.

Expanding the Mobile Fax Application: This allows quickly and easily to scan and fax documents using the Popcompanion mobile app installed on the smartphone, as well as managing messages in offline mode. The Apple version has been upgraded to iOS 7, so that it now supports all devices running iOS 4.3 to iOS 7s.1, no matter if it is an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.

Enhanced Mobile Site Capabilities: Managing online-fax communication from a smartphone has never been so easy. Thanks to the new features in the Mobile Fax Web interface, users are now able to subscribe to the Popfax internet fax service, try the Popfax service for free and use any secure payment method available on Popfax.com to buy packages, options and sending credits right from the mobile site.

As we see 2013 for Popfax was a productive year helping the company to expand their services, costumers and features. “We expect 2014 to be an important year for Popfax with the sustainable modernization of the service and the implementation of new technologies to provide customers with even more high-performance fax tools in the cloud. We are also launching new offers and monthly packages suitable for businesses of any size ”, says Vladimir POPESCO founder and CEO.

Source: http://www.popfax.com