On 11/14/05, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Well, OK. Scanning the HP web site it looks like "Real printers"
start at about $200 in the all-in-one department and go up rapidly
from there. Unless there is some kind of USB-to-Ethernet dongle that
can be attached to the lesser ones.
carl
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