Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.modems:9353 comp.dcom.fax:245 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!robobar!stl!dww From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.fax Subject: Re: FAX Modems Message-ID: <4304@stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 21 Apr 91 08:55:10 GMT References: <1991Apr19.203630.26854@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 26 In the referenced article stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung) writes: #I have need of a 2400 baud modem with fax. MNP or V42.bis #(whatever) is not important. Anybody can recommend ... The March edition of PC World - the one with "PUT IT IN WRITING!" + a picture of GoCorp's PenPoint notebook-and-pen PC on the front - contained a survey of "42 FAX Boards from $200 to $1500", plus ad's for some at $199 up. I found it fairly useful in choosing a board - though I had to pay more like #200 for the same board in the UK (almost twice as much). I suspect most of the boards are fine - they all do about the same thing. What you need to look out for is the software supplied with them, as that provides the facilities you'll be using. The board I bought in the end came with Bitfax software, which seems quite good in that it includes facilities to merge image files with text, plus some basic format conversion stuff, as well as the usual menus and phone book. But it doesn't appear to support polling mode (please tell me if a version of it does!), and although you can view or print out FAXes before you send them if you want, there appear to be some scaling errors in fine mode - i.e. the image on my 300 dpi printer is not the same size as on the far-end FAX machine. Regards, "None shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity" David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK dww@stl.stc.co.uk ...uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!dww FAX: +44 279 432734 /g=David/s=Wright/org=STC Technology Ltd/prmd=STC plc/admd=Gold 400/co=GB