From: Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gabriel Sechan wrote:
You're misunderstanding. Some all in ones allow you to scan, and send the
resulting jpeg to an email account, rather than to the computer via USB.
One of these models will have working scanning under Linux even if the
driver does not have working Linux support, since all it needs is an email
account to send to.
Well, I'm *still* not understanding. How does the scanned image get to the
email account, clairevoyance?
Either ethernet connection, or by forwarding the fax to a service that hosts
a fax->email gateway. Although you do not have to use this option, you can
always just have it print out.
Well, that covers the fax part of "all-in-one". But what about scanner and
printer? I'm assuming the printer portion is a no brainer. But how can a
person get a scanned image into the attached PC
Printer, assuming its not a WinPrinter (which I don't know of any modern all
in ones which are), is just the normal setup.
Scanner communicates via software on the PC side, using a special control
language over USB. So yes, you need driver support to do that. I do know
it exists for Linux, as I used Linux for my dev platform when designing all
in one scanner firmware.
Gabe
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