I have an unusual announcement to make. It’s quite novel, really. And yet I can’t imagine anyone scrambling for a sticky note so they can jot this down, but here it goes:
TLC Creative Services will no longer support fax communications.
If anyone (and I mean ANYONE) feels they will be impacted by our decision to discontinue our fax number, please reach out to me (Lori)!
Actually, there is one person who has faxed us consistently over the years. There is a company selling refurbished supply vans. We get the same fax twice a year. It’s a black and white fax featuring clip art images of vans and lots and lots of text. Hmmm…I might have some insight as to why they’re having a hard time selling those vans!
I do, however, remember a time when we utterly relied on a fax machine, mostly for design proof approvals. Back in the (cough, cough, two-thousands, cough…) we relied on couriers to send proofs back and forth to clients for approvals. Federal Express was the go-to, but we also used local couriers…a lot. Yes, we had fax machines then, but a black and white thermograph piece of paper didn’t give an accurate proof. Did you know there was a very short period in the technology timeline when there were color fax machines?! And yes, TLC Creative had one. However, the dawn of the color fax machine, though expensive to use at the time, cut down on those courier expenses dramatically. And now, almost all proofs are sent digitally via email, efax, or some sort of download link. Ah how far we’ve come!
While we haven’t had a physical fax machine connected for many (many) years, we still bid adieu to the fax. Your technology was much appreciated and will (not) be missed.
-Lori 🙂