Re: Anyone hear about the new "Printer Pal" for HP DJs...?

[danb@a.crl.com (Dan Brown)]

Rocket Press...a Litmag <rocketusa@delphi.com> wrote:

>Supposedly you could hook this up to your HP DJ and it can act as a plain paper
>fax receiver - even if your computer is not on.

	That's what HP says, and it sounds like a pretty neat gadget.  It's
receive-only, of course (there isn't any kind of scanner device in the
printer), but it seems like it'd be a hell of a lot easier than
messing around with Winfax, let alone Faxination.

	HP claims it will work with all 500-series DeskJets.  I believe they
also say it will work with the original DJ and DJ+, as well as the
DJ600 series, but it won't work with the 300 series or Portable model.

	What I don't know yet is whether it has a built-in fax switch
(automatically answers fax calls, and routes data or voice to
something else).  The literature I've seen sort of indicates that it
does, but it doesn't actually say so.

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