Hello again.
I have been reading up on CUPS for a while now, but still haven't been able
to find out how to solve our problem. If there is anyone out there with a
comment or suggestion we would be greatly appriative.
Thanks so much,
Mark
On Monday 05 February 2001 18:28, you wrote:
> Hello everyone and peace to all who read further :)
>
> My consultant and I have been working really hard to get a simple fax
> solution working for me here at my administrative office. So far, Hylafax
> was just way too complicated to set up (not to mention way overkill for my
> needs). So we have been evaluating PMFax as a result. However, we haven't
> been able see anywhere near the quality of the incoming faxes as we have
> from efax.
>
> The problem, efax was documented very well to work with lpr, but there
> isn't any information on integrating it with CUPS yet. I've included some
> doc's that I found very helpful in setting up PMFax which also seemed to
> illiminate what we need to do if we wanted efax to work (which is what we
> would much rather have.. :).
>
> Can someone please comment?
>
> Thanks so very much in advance. We have been putting a lot of effort to
> convert our office over from "the dark side", and this would really help.
>
> Peace,
>
> Mark
>
> http://www.cds-inc.com/manuals/fxreadme.htm#linux
>
> Using fxfilter - PMfax for Linux includes the fxfilter program to pass
> Postscript or text data to the PMfax program. Postscript data is converted
> into a fax document, and PMfax automatically converts text to fax when
> necessary. For applications that let you specify a print command, use
> fxfilter as their print command and they can create fax documents. You can
> also pipe directly to fxfilter (e.g., ls | fxfilter, or ls | mpage |
> fxfilter).
>
> For systems using CUPS printing - Installing and using the fax printer
> (fx)- For systems like Mandrake 7.2 that use the CUPS printing system, the
> method of creating the fax printer is a bit different. The steps are as
> follows:Be sure you have PMfax for Linux v4.0g or later. Copy the fxfilter
> program from the PMfax directory to the /usr/lib/cups/backend directory.
> Insert the following text into the /etc/cups/printers.conf file:
> <Printer fx>
> Info fax printer
> Location
> DeviceURI fxfilter:/dev/null
> State Idle
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> </Printer>Restart cupsd or reboot your system so that CUPS will see the
> changes and create the fx printer.
