A Small Step for Business Processes – A Giant Leap for the Environment.
Faxing is an essential part of daily office activities, however the traditional faxing process has increasingly negative impacts on our environment - wasting paper, killing trees, consuming energy and emitting toxic gases into the atmosphere. It may seem like a small step, but switching from the traditional manual fax to network-based faxing can actually have an enormous impact on your company’s bottom line as well as the environment.
Fax machines are one of the most energy-consuming culprits in the office. They’re turned on 24 hours a day - waiting for a fax - and even when idle they consume energy. They gorge on electricity and spit out paper, which has a negative impact on the environment - not to mention the company’s budget.
But it gets worse…
According to Energy Star, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, American companies currently use 210 billion sheets of paper each year for faxing alone. To put into perspective, paper production - in terms of energy used - is secondary only to petroleum production. What’s the impact on a larger scale?
About 17 million trees are lost annually to supply this paper.
More than 14 million pounds of toxic bleaching chemicals used in producing this paper, such as chlorine, sodium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide, pollute American waterways each year.
Ink/toner cartridges that print on this paper contribute over 3 million pounds of corrugated cardboard and 6 million pounds of PVC just in packaging alone. The cartridge materials ultimately take up precious landfill space (unless properly disposed of), contributing to global warming and soil erosion.
Out With the Old
Since FACSys is a digitally-centric technology, it allows users to send, receive and route fax documents through their network - effectively eliminating paper from the faxing process and making the energy-inefficient fax machine obsolete.
Being green may not be a high priority of your business, but when it means saving money and increasing security, while lowering the environmental impact, it just makes good business sense.
It’s Easy Being Green
Go digital or go home. Migrate all your records to a digital filing cabinet on your server; and get rid of the rusted, bulky units taking up your office space. Once your documents are digitized and centrally stored, they become easily searchable and retrievable, ultimately saving you time and effort and precious floor space.
Business as usual. Misplaced that important document? Fried your hard drive? No matter, since network faxing relies on server-based communication, you never have to worry about losing business-critical information because it’s stored at the server level. Talk about easy disaster recovery!
Automatic for the people. Face it - the less you have to do - the better. By automating workflows and key business processes, even at the most basic level, you can significantly reduce your paper trail, augment your audit trail and boost organizational efficiency.
Taking the “labor” out of collaboration. By storing your documents on the network, employees have easy access to them for real-time collaboration with one another, with clients or with partners - no matter where they are located. Better collaboration enhances decision-making and accuracy, saving your time, money and many headaches.
Following the best “route”. FACSys Inbound Routing Table ensures that your business-critical and content-sensitive documents get to the right person at the right time. Routing streamlines administrative processes to save time, improve accuracy and maintains the security and integrity of your documents.
Anytime. Anywhere. Because FACSys operates at a server-level, you can access your network documents at home, at work or on the road. FACSys Desktop Client gives you the freedom to send a fax from one location and retrieve it in another without compromising content or security.
Trim the fat. In an effort to lower overhead costs, companies look to their budgets to see what can be cut first. Switching to a network fax model is a cost-cutting solution that’s likely to stick around even after the economy picks up. Cut down on your electricity bill as well as the paper and toner budget? It’s a no-brainer.
Grow away. FACSys Fax Messaging Gateway is geared toward companies operating on a global scale, and having 24/7 access to faxing capabilities without special equipment makes it easy to keep doing business even while traveling. In addition, the FACSys License structure makes it a fully scalable faxing solution that will grow with your company.
CFO won’t bite?You can still take baby steps to reduce your organization’s carbon footprint by considering the following simple tips:
Choose recycled paper and environmentally benign ink
Use fax stick-on labels rather than a cover sheet
Review documents onscreen rather than printing them out
“RoHs from the Pros” Rebate Program
The RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) Directive restricts the use of six substances, namely lead, mercury, hexavalent chromium, cadmium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE). This aims to lower the overall environmental impact of electrical and electronic equipment by making manufacturers more responsible for the downstream impact of the goods they design, produce, and assemble.
emFAST has unveiled a new program, designed to help reduce environmental damage – one fax board at a time. With our “RoHS from the Pros” Rebate Program customers can send their existing (non-compliant) fax hardware and receive a credit of $100 USD per port* when upgrading to any FACSys Green Bundle. We’ll also make sure that the old fax hardware is recycled in accordance with environmental regulations.
Aside from the basic benefits like fast connection rates, scalability and flexibility, upgrading to a RoHS-compliant fax board is a logical and easy way to help reduce your organization’s environmental impact.
Go Green. See Green. Save money while saving the world with FACSys Green.
* - Subject to Terms & Conditions. Please contact emFAST Sales for more information.
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