Re: FAXination Success Story!!!

[sane@netaxs.com (Wonko The Sane)]

Shawn Platkus (platkus@falcon.ic.net) wrote:
: Well, I finally downloaded the update from the Vitesse BBS and gave it a try.
: This was last night, so it was the latest update.  When I did an info in
: the finder on the NDA, it said version 0.14.  Maybe it should have been 1.04,
: but what the heck, it actually worked!

: I didn't try sending a FAX yet, but receive worked fine.

: I received two FAXes.  One 3 page from NEC's Fast FAX, and a 7 page one from
: Apple's FAX service.  I was able to print and view the FAXes.  They
: printed copy was tough to read, and things blurred together a lot, but this
: must be due to the ImageWriter II printer.  

I'll cut here. I had a similar problem with my LWriter, but when I asked 
Vitesse they said everything that was either viewed or printed first had 
to be scaled to the screen resolution. No way around that as of now, but 
they're working on it.

: The FAX was at 200 DPI, and when
: viewed on the GS 640x200 screen, it was very readable.  Even very fine print
: that was nothing more than small sqares on the print-out were pretty clear
: on screen.  Of course when the FAX was viewed on the GS screen, a lot of
: scrolling was required to read a page, thus making printing out the FAX
: almost necessary for most uses.

: I'd like to hear from other FAXination users that have a printer with a
: higher resolution (like a laser printer or ink jet) to evaluate the print
: quality.

See above.

: The program did just randomly crash into the monitor when I enabled the
: auto receive feature, and it crashed after receiving the NEC fax, but it did
: receive it fine.

: I'll be trying the send feature soon, but it sounds like folks here have had
: success with that already.

Vitesse tells me it really depends on the modem. There are some users who 
have gotten their modem to receive and send, others who can't even init 
the darn thing. You're one of the "lucky". 

: There is still work to do, but we can send and receive FAXes now!

Again, see above.

	I'll use this opportunity to add a sniplet of my own. Yes, there 
seems to be a LOT of work to do. Generally, I sit back and read this 
conference, helping when I can. But I have to butt in. 
	Vitesse has gotten SOME modems to initialize SOME of the time. 
(They'll throw a pitch bout this if you ask, some weird angle.) They 
also, because of this, can't guarantee that modems WILL send and receive.
	Viewing is horrible, and printing needs to be improved, IMHO. But 
what do I know? I've had the 104 version for a couple of days, and 
haven't gotten ANY fax-back service to work correctly with my modem. A 
lot of times I'll get that annoying "Transmission failed due to an 
unrecoverable error" and have to start over. I'll look for the FAX I just 
received, and, what? It's not there? AHHHHH!! 
	Another thing, file encryption really _should_ be optimized, so 
that you're not waiting three to five minutes PER PAGE. Ugh. 

	Okay. 

	Mark