Ralph Shumaker wrote: > Todd Walton wrote: > > >>On 11/13/05, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>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?
If you have a document in your hand of course you have to use the scanner, just like any fax machine. Email does not help with this part. Email helps with the receiving of faxes and with scanning images. >>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. Yep. > 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? Not through the USB. Through ethernet. Real printers are attached via ethernet IMHO. Anything else is a for-home-use-only toy. > 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? You scan it in just like you would with a regular fax machine and it sends it just like a normal fax machine. > 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. No. If the person on the other end wants to send a fax back the fax comes in over the phone line plugged into your printer/fax/scanner machine and the device receives the fax and either prints it or emails it depending on how you have it configured. > Can Linux act as both a receiving fax machine and an answering machine? A PC running Linux can do this with a faxmodem installed but I thought we were talking about those fancy fax/print/scan boxes. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
