Flow Of The Pc-Fax Operation - Oce cm4521 User Manual

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Flow of the PC-FAX operation

Conventionally, faxes are sent by loading an original into a fax machine and
sending it.
With computer faxing, you can send a fax directly from your computer with-
out using any paper.
Transmission commands sent from the application are received by the fax
driver.
Data is transferred to this machine through the USB interface (when using a
USB connection) or through the Ethernet (TCP/IP or IPX/SPX) (when using a
network connection), and then the data is transferred from this machine to
the printer controller. Image rasterization (bitmap data created from output
text and images) is performed by the printer controller. This data is stored in
the memory of this machine and transmitted like a conventional fax job.
Fax
1-4
Computer
Used with a USB
connection
Application
Fax driver
USB
Printer controller
PS/PCL processing (rasterizing)
Used with a network
connection
Application
Fax driver
Ethernet (TCP/IP, IPX/
SPX)
Machine
Overview
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