Gabriel Sechan wrote:
From: Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Not through the USB. Through ethernet. Real printers are attached via
ethernet IMHO. Anything else is a for-home-use-only toy.
OK. So forget USB? Or do these printers have both USB *and* catV
(at the same time) hooked up between the printer and the PC?
Ignore this, this is just Tracy's biases floating in. If you're not
sharing the printer with multiple computers, then USB is just fine.
For home networks, USB is just fine. Ethernet is really a small
buisness need (large buisnesses need industrial type printers, not all
in ones).
I thought I was losing my mind. Turns out it was just my sanity.
I thought that JetDirect was primarily for making the printer a
stand-alone on the network accessible by anything else on the network.
But yes, some of the more expensive all in ones do have built in
ethernet and/or wireless.
My question was actually more like "Are you saying that both ethernet
and usb cable have to be used at the same time between the printer and
the PC?". But that question was only because of what it /sounded/ like
Tracy was trying to say.
There seem to be two types of all-in-ones, those with fax built-in,
and those without. It must be assumed (I think) that those without
need for the PC to have a fax/modem if you want faxing capability (or
not). (I seem to be getting more and more mixed up as this goes on.)
No. Those all in ones without a fax modem built in can't fax. At
all. If you need fax, you need to buy one with a built in fax modem.
The ones without fax modems are meant for people who don't need a fax
machine at all.
I did not word that very well. When I saw what I wrote, I had a little
bit of a hard time following it. There should be a comma to greatly
improve clarity: "It must be assumed (I think) that [the all-in-ones]
without [fax], need for the PC to have a fax/modem if you want faxing
capability (or not)." In other words, if the all-in-one has no fax,
then faxing would still be achievable with a fax/modem installed in the
PC itself. But then the all-in-one would have to be able to somehow get
the scanned image to the PC, which so far, I understand to happen
somehow by magic email. I just don't know how this email (or image) is
supposed to get from the all-in-one to the PC, whether via phone line
from the fax portion of the all-in-one to my ISP then back to my PC
(again via phone line), or via USB (or ethernet, or wireless) directly
to some email server that I probably have to set up on my PC, or via
pixie dust, or via magical incantations. From what has been explained
to me so far, I'm betting on one of the latter two. (Seriously.)
Basic functions of all-in-one-with-fax attached to PC:
1) Printer: PC sends a print job to it via USB or catV or what?
2) Copier: Feed document through and out spits a copy. (no PC
necessary)
3) Scanner: Feed document through and image gets to PC who-knows-how.
4) Incoming Fax to hard copy: Phone rings, all-in-one-with-fax
answers, receives image and prints.
5) Incoming Fax to PC file: Phone rings, all-in-one-with-fax
answers, receives image and image gets to PC who-knows-how.
6) Outgoing Fax from hard copy: Feed document, dial number, scans,
calls, image sent.
7) Outgoing Fax from PC file: Who-knows-how file comes from PC,
dials, and sends.
8) Did I miss anything?
The other big feature of all in ones are photo card slots- they let
you take a card from a digital camera, plug it in, and print images
directly off the card. If you print a lot of photos and don't touch
them up in photoshop, thats a nice feature. If not, its useless to you.
So, the photo card is useful in this situation only for direct
printing? No scanning to the photo card? No transfer between the photo
card and the PC? No faxing from the photo card?
By the way, I listed to sets of 8 items. These were *not* mere copies
of one another. The one you left in describes an all-in-one with fax
built into it and attached to a PC. The other set describes an
all-in-one *without* a fax built into it but attached to a PC which has
a fax/modem (either external or internal). In both cases, (ideally
anyway) faxing would be possible. In the one case, all faxing would be
going through the all-in-one, and in the other, all faxing would be
going through the PC.
For reference, here's that other set again:
Basic functions of all-in-one attached to PC with fax/modem:
1) Printer: Same as #1 above.
2) Copier: Same as #2 above.
3) Scanner: Same as #3 above.
4) Incoming Fax to hard copy: Phone rings, PC answers, receives image
and goes to step #1.
5) Incoming Fax to PC file: Phone rings, PC answers, receives image and
stores to file.
6) Outgoing Fax from hard copy: Do step #3, then PC somehow knows this
is a fax and where to send it.
7) Outgoing Fax from PC file: Who-knows-what program sends file out via
fax.
8) Did I miss anything?
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