Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!cass.ma02.bull.com!mips2!bull.bull.fr!corton!ircam!francis From: francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax Subject: Re: FAX/MODEM... why not? Message-ID: <1991May19.105431.8319@ircam.fr> Date: 19 May 91 10:54:31 GMT References: <2451@wet.UUCP> Organization: IRCAM, Paris (France) Lines: 30 In article <2451@wet.UUCP> roger@wet.UUCP (Roger Niclas) writes: >peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> What I don't understand about all these cheap FAXes is why nobody has put >> a $5 serial port in one and sold it as a combination FAX/MODEM/SCANNER/ ... >Maybe because it'd be a third-rate printer, a crummy scanner, and an >incompatible modem? It would, however, be a good fax, maybe even a fair >telephone. > That's silly; one can up from 1728 (or whatever) pixels/line to 300-400dpi, add grayscale, allow 200-400-800 whatever resolution horizontally, and it suddenly is not a bad scanner(1); The fax part is intrinsic (2); The modem - well, is 2400 baud that crummy? Then add a 9600+ MNP option(3); and as for printing, just make sure it is a normal laserjet-type printer; perhaps with Postscript or PCL on top of everything (4). i.e., take a scanner/copy/printer type machine (which ARE on the market) and add a fax card/modem, and appropriate software. A Good fax, hp-type nifty printer; excellent scanner; and excellent modem; I'm sure several companies have these, and are just waiting until the market is saturated with faxes, so they can introduce a new one for people to buy again. The personal Copier thing has been going for some time too... -- | Le Jojo: Fresh 'n' Clean, speaking out to the way you want to live | today; American - All American; doing, a bit so, and even more so.