Re: do there exist a device that converts a thermal fax to a printer?

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Subject	Re: do there exist a device that converts a thermal fax to a printer?
Date	17 May 2011 18:42:07 GMT
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On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:24:10 +0800, 吕韦甫 wrote:

> Hello. Got a lot of thermal fax machines out of usage because company
> stopped using fax since popularity of email. Many of them are even new!
> Should I just throw all of them to trash or do there exist some device
> that can convert fax machines to printers? I guess a simple converter
> that has one end to fax machine and the other end LPT port or USB port
> would do. There might also be ready-made devices that allows connecting
> between fax machines directly to modems, accompanied by special driver
> in CUPS perhaps. Hand-made device is not acceptable in this environment.
> 

I believe all you would need would be a phone cable between the two.


> Out of curiosity, almost anything in our offices have a USB port:
> speakers, photo-copy machine, routers, coffee machine and so like, but I
> never came across a fax machine that have a USB port or even COM port.
> Isn't it strange? I don't see why it's difficult to implement an ESC/P
> printer language interprator in fax machine just like dot-matrix
> printers.
> 
> Best.

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do there exist a device that converts a thermal fax to a printer? 吕韦甫 <treehouse_of_horror@yahoo.cn> - 2011-05-17 16:24 +0800
  Re: do there exist a device that converts a thermal fax to a printer? Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-05-17 07:28 -0400
  Re: do there exist a device that converts a thermal fax to a printer? ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2011-05-17 18:42 +0000

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