Announcing eFax Service for Campus
Information technology services is pleased to announce the implementation of the new eFax service for campus.
In keeping with the overall strategy to migrate away from the previous phone system, faxing is also moving to a cloud-based faxing solution that is FERPA and HIPAA compliant. We consolidated some department fax numbers and only kept fax numbers active where sensitive information was being transmitted regularly. This also aligns with the work to centralize printing and reduce the number of smaller printers and fax machines from the network.
Some benefits of eFax are:
- Security of faxing from your computer.
- Ability to select and attach specific documents. (Word, Excel, PDF, TIFF, JPEG, BMP)
- Verification of what was sent and when.
- The ability to send one fax to multiple fax numbers.
- People using the DeSales general fax number will have the fax forwarded to their DeSales email address.
- Departments with dedicated fax numbers will have faxes delivered to the department’s shared fax email account and routed appropriately.
- The ability to retrieve a fax from your email account when not in your office.
There is no need to inform the recipients you are sending via eFax. They will see the fax arrive as they saw it in the past.
A cover page is automatically generated, including the number of pages and your name, using the subject and body of the email.
Faculty and staff must be granted access to this new system to send faxes. As a start, department administration/secretaries and designated members of departments with dedicated fax numbers are given this access. We encourage departments to use the designated eFax coordinator to send faxes.
The new campus-wide fax number is 610-282-1480. When receiving a fax, please ask the sender to include the name and DeSales email address to aid in the efficient routing of the fax when received.
At this time, there is no charge for this service. Should a department or office be sending or receiving a large number of pages that lead to cost increases, we will have to pass those increases along to the department or office. This service is not intended for personal faxes.
Questions? mark.albert@desales.edu