On 11/13/05, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tracy R Reed wrote: > >The good all-in-one fax/scanner/printers will email the fax to your > >email address so there is no need for special Linux scanner support. I > >really like those. I recently used a Brother brand fax/scanner/printer > >and it worked well and emailed me the scans. > > Now, with the machine to which you refer, how can you send a fax of a > document in your hand without using the scanner side? How is email > going to help with this?
I took the idea to be that you don't have to have software to control the scanner and to receive its output. It just does the scan using its own internal software, and then sends the output to you using a very well known and very well supported protocol, email. No special interface. No special driver. Press a button, bzzt, ree ree, and out shoots the email. Versus press the button, bzzt, ree ree, and hello I have the image! Hello? It's right here computer! Come get it! Hello? -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
