Of course there’s a chance your e-mail system then hands it over to faxing software. Or you can fax straight from the machine. Heck with the software I work on you can even fax a picture of a signed document from you smartphone. In legal land faxing has the big advantage of being able to say in court “I know for a fact you received this document right here at this time on this date, and it stipulates...” A lot of “we didn’t know”, “we didn’t receive it”, and “that’s not what our copy says” goes away with fax.
Fax has been “dead” for a long time, but our market keeps growing at about 4% over inflation pretty consistently for over a quarter century.
Every now and then I have to send a fax to someone for some reason.
I don’t use our old fax machine to do it.
I use this:
You create a PDF file of the docs you want to send then launch this program from their website. It takes the PDF files and converts them to FAX code, sends them, then sends a notice to your email that it was received...................Free...................