Gabriel Sechan wrote:
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.
OK, I guess I'm going to have to spell out my confusion. Let's begin by
assuming there's no wireless transmissions of any kind in this process.
I take the paper that's in my hand and put it into the scanner feed. It
feeds through and is scanned. The machine then converts this to an
image file that still is in the (scanning) machine. I previously asked
if USB was used to get it to the PC, and the response sounded like "no,
it goes to email". Email could mean that it ended up anywhere in the
world, including the PC attached via USB. How the image gets to "email"
(whatever that means in this context), who knows?! But somehow this
email is the means by which it somehow gets to the computer that, to the
best of my knowledge, is only attached via USB (although now you've
thrown in ethernet and forwarding to a service via who-knows-what cable
to who-knows-what machine who-knows-where). Clairevoyance is sounding
more and more like what you're describing. I realize that you're trying
to help me understand this. But I hope I've been able to make clear my
confusion. If you understand the process, please tell me what does what
and what paths are used. I feed the paper through the scanner which
creates some sort of image in the (scanning) machine. After this, I'm
totally lost (except that email is somehow involved) until it actually
ends up in the PC, if it even ever gets /there/.
Please forgive if I sound a bit testy. But I really am trying to
understand this.
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.
Maybe I should just tell my friend "Buy this one. It's supposed to
work. My friends tell me so. If it doesn't work right out of the box,
I'll just have to post requests for help and hope the answer comes right
away.".
I feel like I'm between a rock and a hard place.
This friend is not patient. When she wants something, she wants it
now. She often does not express that she wants something until she's
ready to have it. Every time I have been doing anything on her
computer, invariably she asks "How long is this going to take?". She
doesn't understand how I cannot know. She is the most decisive person I
have ever known. And she has already told me (multiple times) that she
wants an all-in-one. She has shown remarkable patience. She is the
kind that could easily tell me "Forget Linux. Put windows back on if
that's what it takes to get it to work.". And to be honest, I wouldn't
blame her. (She's already mentioned it.)
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