Does adding an e to fax improve communication?
The Hewlett Packard OfficeJet fax machine next to my desk is, for all intents and purposes, an antique. It takes minutes to receive a transmission and half an eternity to print it. Sometimes it gives up the ghost midway through a fax and stubbornly refuses to budge. The paper sticks together when I send multiple pages, shooting a stream of unintelligible data to the baffled recipient. As my old HP ages, its problems become more critical. A few months ago, I got a mysterious error message warning me that my cartridge was out of ink even though it wasn’t. I was on the verge of throwing the whole unit out the window until my younger brother decided to open the malfunctioning machine and operate without the benefit of technical manuals or any prior fax repair experience. He removed a metal bar at random and, wouldn’t you know it, the darned thing started printing again. But when a client tried to send a multiple-page document to my feeble fax last week, the HP stalled again. After half a d
