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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Buying advice
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Date: 11 Jan 91 02:50:38 GMT
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In article <3782@orbit.cts.com> mvg@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Mitchell Gossman) writes:
>I'd like some advice regarding possible purchase of the following items...
>
>
>2. As long as I'm getting a new modem, is a fax modem worth it in your
>experience? The Dove modem/fax attracts my eye, for example, as a good deal.
>Any other good deals? Is a fax practicalwith a Mac? I've only got an SE/IW-II
>combination - when a fax is received by me, is a printout at the highest
>resolution of the printer, and does this approach the resolution of real
>fax machine output? And is there a way to get even better resolution with a
>laserwriter?

The SE takes quite a while doing compression/decompression.  Using the
ImageWriter on Faster mode seems to give an acceptable, errr, facsimilie of
real fax output on low quality mode.  I think a fax is nominally 200 x 100 in
low quality mode, though.  In Best mode, the Imagewriter is 144x144, so the
fax should work nicely even in high quality mode.  A LaserWriter has
higher resolution than both, so it should produce the same quality output
a normal fax machine would produce.
Whether or not the fax is worth it depends on how much you need a fax,
naturally.  Fax modems are best for faxing computer-generated documents-- the
output is far superior to what you get by printing out your document and
running it through a regular fax machine.
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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