What has faxing to do with printing?
What has faxing to do with printing?
Posted Jan 11, 2007 11:08 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: What has faxing to do with printing? by ncm
Parent article: Hardware that Just Works
A lot of these things started as photocopiers implemented as a scanner and a laser printer, then grew the ability to run the parts independently and do other things with them too. (After all, a fax machine needs a scanner...)
If you have a computer connected, all you *really* need is the separate scan and print components, and the machine can connect them together: but not everyone has appropriate software to do that (or the skills to write it) so it's good that the hardware device can do it on its own as well.