Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: ray Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware Subject: Re: do there exist a device that converts a thermal fax to a printer? Date: 17 May 2011 18:42:07 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: <93ftrvF9ovU3@mid.individual.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net xHTHb7Cunhdd8Q7vEZ6JVAD+KUWHt5LqgqtsOdAy/zBIhjF5rg Cancel-Lock: sha1:XgHg4A5C/MuqnOILS4y9Yj1WCCs= User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.hardware:357 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.