Small Business HOWTO: Buy a networked copy/scan/fax/printer

It also depends on the nature of your business -- in our case, we deal with a lot of paper and a lot of technologically unsophisticated clients. And when we need to prepare a proposal for submission on a deadline, having the copier in-house and with zero problems is crucial.

"If we need to fax something, we walk a block to the blueprint shop and pay $1."

Right -- and if you fax something once a month, this makes sense. But if you fax something once a week, it probably doesn't -- especially if you need to, say, scan multi-page documents regularly, and so forth.

Try the Fujitsu Snapscan. I think you can set an automatic folder.