[Asterisk-Users] Print-to-Fax client

[tim panton]

Florian Overkamp wrote:

>Hi, 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>You should be able to download one (for WIndows and possibly Mac) from
>>efax or j2.com I think.
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>>http://www.efax.com/en/efax/twa/page/download?rqcp=2
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>>http://www.j2.com/jconnect/twa/page/download
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>You might be able to do that, but take a good look at the license agreement
>on the driver - you might not be allowed to use the software fully without
>having a subscription to their services.
>
>Florian
>
Just as an extra datapoint, I have been experimenting with the builltin fax
facilities in OSX. Basically there is a cups printer called "Internal_Modem"
which accepts postscript and sends faxes out of the external modem.
I had the external modem plugged into a sipura 2000 which connected over 
ulaw
to asterisk which then calls out over PRI to the far fax.

Initial experiments seem encouraging .

The really cool thing is that the CUPS printer is a network service so all
the systems on my net can now send faxes.

The othernice thing is that the processing of postscript to tiff/fax is done
off the asterisk box with a full set of genuine postscript fonts.

(With the imac mini - it could almost be described as cost effective
to buy one just as a fax gateway).

Tim.