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IT IS THE BEST OF THE MULTI FUNCTION PRINTERS. DO NOT LET THAT STOP
YOU. IT IS NOT ALL THAT COMPLICATED.
Ann Meffert wrote:
>I'm beginning to lose all interest in the MP780 that has now been sitting
>unopened in its box in my living room for over a week. Why? This fax mess
>and my reluctance to learn a new way to do faxes, which appears more
>complicated than the HP's. I'm considering taking it back for now and just
>using the T45 for a while longer. I did, however, want to get into digital
>photography printing and photo restoration to CD. I thought this machine
>might do everything I need. I don't understand why these !@#$% printer
>companies can't give customers what they want and need. HP wants to control
>their printer ink profits by only selling combination cartridges and Canon
>gives you a nice AIO without any blankety blank fax software. Am I just
>missing some major point with this machine because of new equipment phobia?
>"zakezuke" <zakezuke_us@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:1124691946.449963.189800@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
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>>--Canon Tech Support
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>>>The MP780 does not come with any fax software; however, it does install a
>>>fax printer driver. This will allow you to compose a document in a
>>>program,
>>>and then print it to the fax driver. The fax driver will communicate
>>>with
>>>the MP780 and send it out.
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>>That sounds like tech support to me. They won't reccomend software...
>>unless it's their own, I can't fault them for that even though I poke
>>fun at their technicaly accurate but useless answers.
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>>The real question is can the mp780 work with 3rd party fax software.
>>The problem is what you are looking for basicly exists as software the
>>acts as a print driver to a fax modem where the mp780 already has a
>>driver to it's own fax modem. While I'm sure you can use any
>>applicatin to "print to fax" there are not really provisions in
>>printers to have phone numbers... so you are dependent on the fax
>>driver's phone book, if it even has one.
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>>It really sounds like this device is not your bag, but what might be
>>your bag would be standard ordinary fax software that talks with your
>>existing fax modem, the one in your PC. Applications like the old
>>Quicklink fax while they didn't serve to compose faxes took output from
>>any application.. converted it to TIF and not only sent it to the 3rd
>>party fax but saved it localy. There were also address books to make
>>your life easier, cover pages, etc etc etc. Lowest entry cost, lowest
>>replacement cost.
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>>Now.. what is decent as far as the mP series goes is the scan to e-mail
>>feature. It supports PDF and fax modems are pretty limited in speed,
>>9600 14.4k tops. Dialup modem ranges from 28.8 to 56k on the
>>downstream... upstream is limited to 33.6k in most cases. In other
>>words pdf via e-mail has a 2 to 1 or 3 to 1 speed advantage over fax
>>even if you are sending info to a dialup user. Not to speak of lack
>>of toll charges and the speed advantage when sending to non-dialup
>>users.
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