The optional PostScript Fax card offered with the LaserWriter Select
360 can send and receive faxes with traditional fax machines,
computers with fax cards, and other PostScript Fax capable printers. A
networked LaserWriter Select 360 printer is available to anyone on the
network and therefore is a multi-user fax solution.
When communicating with other fax machines, PostScript Fax printers
will produce 200 dpi and deliver the best results possible, given the
limitations of a fax machine. However, when communicating with another
PostScript Fax capable printer, the LaserWriter Select 360 can deliver
and receive faxes that are of the same quality of the original. If the
original is sent as a 600 dpi PostScript Fax, that is what is received
and printed. This is accomplished by actually sending the other
printer a PostScript file instead of a fax image. PostScript Fax to
PostScript Fax interaction guarantees top quality images at both ends
of the connection.
The LaserWriter Select 360's PostScript Level 2 driver provides for
fax communication via the print dialog. This allows any user connected
to the LaserWriter Select 360 directly or over the network to fax a
document from an application by simply invoking the print command from
the file menu. The driver also facilitates the use of an address book
feature for frequently used fax destinations.
It is important to understand that by adding the optional fax board
when purchasing a LaserWriter Select 360, a business will acquire not
only a fast, networkable, high-quality laser printer, but also a plain
paper fax machine that is capable of matching the quality of the
original document.
NOTE:
* The PostScript Fax option must be installed by an Apple-authorized
service provider.
* The Fax software shipping with the LaserWriter Select 360 Fax option card
will not work with 68000-based Macintosh systems. Customers must use the
LaserWriter FAX software version 1.0.1 to FAX documents via the 360 and 810
from a 68000 based Macintosh. This new version is not required if the customer
is printing from a Macintosh with a 68020 or above.
Ordering Information
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LaserWriter Select 360 PostScript Fax Card
Order No. M2345LL/A
Article Change History:
3 December 1993 - Added information on Fax software compatibility with
68000-based Macintosh computers