Re: CN Fax

[Dan Brosemer <odin@svartalfheim.net>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:22:08PM +0000, Don McGorman wrote:
> I just spent a frustrating half hour printing off documents stored in 
> memory of the fax machine from mid-June and later.  Numerous paer jams and 
> many spam faxes.
> 
> Years ago I saw a system where fax transmissions were received by the 
> computer, they could be previewed on screen and then printed if required.  
> Any possibility of this happening at the CN office.
> 
> The way things are working now is less than desireable.

When I had it going before, it was a "this is less than desirable, it's
unsupported, but let's try it".  If I were to do it again today, I could
probably make it fully supported, but here's the catch... 

The best feature of it: being able to send faxes from the computers would
not happen for a long while if at all.

That fax machine is top-fed, so I can't see a method of preventing the paper
jams.  Using better paper would help, but who wants to waste good paper on
junk faxes?

Anyway, I'll investigate receiving faxes using the computers if the general
concensus is it's a good idea.  I, for one, am for it.

-Dan

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