Office Depot Fax: What It Costs
Office Depot and OfficeMax fax on self-service machines in the store and publish one figure, a starting price. Below, what their pages say, what the machine cannot do, and the same send from your phone.
What Office Depot and OfficeMax charge
A price here is a published figure for the place named, not a rate every location charges.
Prices as of October 2026
Office Depot's self-service page says "Faxing Starting at $0.99" and does not say what that buys, a page or a fax, so the page gives no per-page total.
Receiving a fax there
Office Depot's page describes sending ("Send local, domestic, or international faxes") and says nothing about receiving a fax for a customer.
SourceCounter versus phone
The counter column is computed from the figures above; the phone column is what FaxTerra charges.
What FaxTerra charges, from its own price list. The counter sets its own.
Every FaxTerra account gets 10 free pages a month, and a page to a US fax number counts as one. A document of up to 10 pages sends free, with no credit card.
Free pages reset on the 1st. If a second document takes you past 10 pages, a FaxTerra Lite pack covers it, with no subscription.
How faxing at Office Depot works
Office Depot's help page says: "Just bring your documents, follow the simple on-screen steps, and send your fax securely to any fax number." The on-screen steps are the whole procedure its page describes.
What the machine cannot do
It cannot give you a number of your own, and the store's pages do not describe receiving. To receive, you need a number of your own. A One-Time Fax Number is $14.99 once, live for 90 days with 50 pages and nothing to cancel; a Starter plan is $4.99 a month with a number included. Either way the fax lands in your inbox as a PDF and an email tells you it is there.
The same send from your phone
Every FaxTerra account sends 10 free pages a month, with no card on file. Photograph the pages or upload the PDF at faxterra.com/send, type the number, and an email confirms delivery. Past the free pages, credit packs start at $1.99 and never expire.
Questions
How much does it cost to fax at Office Depot?
Office Depot's own page says "Faxing Starting at $0.99" without saying whether that is per page or per fax.
Can I receive a fax at Office Depot?
Its pages describe sending only. A number of your own on FaxTerra receives into your inbox.
Does Office Depot fax internationally?
Yes. The self-service page says "Send local, domestic, or international faxes".
Is it cheaper to fax from my phone?
For most documents, yes: the first 10 pages a month on FaxTerra are free with no card and no trip.
Sources
- www.officedepot.com/l/print-and-copy/self-service-printing
- help.officedepot.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8126
More places: The UPS Store · FedEx Office · Staples · The public library · A hotel business center · every place that faxes
FaxTerra is a fax service, not Office Depot and OfficeMax. Where its counter quotes a different rate, the counter is right. Reviewed October 2026.
Going to the counter: print a free fax cover sheet to put on top.
Send it from where you are standing
Photograph the pages or upload the PDF, type the number, and it goes out in minutes; an email confirms delivery. 10 pages free every month.