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From: neal@mnopltd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: FAX Modems
Message-ID: <208@mnopltd.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 91 22:00:55 GMT
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Organization: MNOP Ltd., Atlanta, Ga.
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->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.

Bitfax reputedly has a TSR to capture printer output and convert it to fax
format.  Allegedly this knows how to deal with HP Laserjet format. 

Does anyone know how smart the Bitfax capture is?  Such as:
	- does it recognize fonts being downloaded?
	- does it recognize fonts cards?
Or does it ignore almost everything and format all your text as 10cpi
Letter Gothic no matter what?

I will confess that to date we still print everything and then feed it.
We would like to jump into the 21st century, bith with our fonts intact.

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