analyzing the incoming document to determine what target devices are intended then operating upon the incoming document to create separate properly formatted documents for each of the target devices once created the documents are grouped as a job and simultaneously transmitted to all target devices a second advantage of the invention is enabling the economic use of transmission media this is accomplished through both line utilization and load balancing line utilization occurs within each instance of a document server while load balancing occurs over a cluster of master slaved configured document servers 12 the result is the physically and economically optimized use of document delivery resources a third advantage of the invention is level of integration of document delivery functions this is accomplished by providing a plug and play solution where all necessary hardware and software are provided in a single easily installed digital device users of the document server simply attach the server 12 to a source of power insert pstn 20 and network 22 connections and turn the server on a system administrator then sets initial preferences such as minimum number of incoming channels and the server is ready for use a fourth advantage of the invention is flexibility a wide range of input paths may be used to simultaneously deliver a document to a plurality of target devices even though each of the designated target devices may require different formats users of the system may make use of document delivery without the need to install any dedicated software via a web browser interface at the other end of the input spectrum legacy devices such as traditional fax machines may be used to input documents while the present invention is described in terms of a preferred embodiment.