Thread Subject: Re: Basic questions

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From: Sean Hayes
Date: Wed, Nov 15 2006 11:00 AM

I mean they are standalone in that a user can walk up to the device and send a fax or copy a document using the plastic shell o the device. They are used in my office in this manner pretty much every day. Just because they are able to be controlled from a remote computer doesn't mean they will be set up so. It seems a bit arbitrary to me for a device to succeed or fail based on whether the user plugs a network cable into it.

Sean Hayes
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From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Jim Tobias
Sent: 15 November 2006 17:44
To: 'TEITAC self contained/closed products subcommittee'
Subject: Re: [teitac-closed] Basic questions

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Hayes [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:21 PM
> To: TEITAC self contained/closed products subcommittee
> Subject: Re: [teitac-closed] Basic questions
>
> Multifunctional devices (such as those made by HP) generally
> include standalone fax and copy functionality. Maybe we
> should ask HP if it is 'a dwindling category'

Multifunction products that includes either printing or scanning functions
have #2-type connectivity -- either single PC or network. So in my
straw man, they would be required to extend the functionality of their
control utilities to cover their fax and copy functions. I don't see how
those fax and copy functions are "standalone". They use the same hardware
and underlying "engine" software as the scan and print functions.

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