Todd Walton wrote:
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?
OK...
It sounds like you're saying that the all-in-one fires off an email
(with attachment) thru the usb straight to the computer which must be
set up to know how to handle email from such a source. Right?
Then how does the "fax" machine on the other end get the fax? I don't
think a fax machine has the capability to deal with email. Does Linux
have a program that can convert the attached image to a fax and then
access the modem, dial up the fax machine, and fax the image?
Then the (person at the) fax machine wants to send a fax back. Linux
will answer the phone and receive the fax? And I'm guessing that I can
choose whether or not I want to print it.
Can Linux act as both a receiving fax machine and an answering machine?
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