User Clients

comFAX/Win

You can create and manage faxes in the comFAX/Win interface under Windows. Faxes to be sent are passed directly to the PAPAGENO serve.

Fax MAPI Printer

The FAX MAPI Printer is a virtual printer and part of the PAPAGENO MAPI Connector. Documents sent from Windows applications to the FAX MAPI Printer areconverted to fax format and then delivered to Outlook or to the fax interface comFAX/Win. From there the documents are forwarded to PAPAGENO directly or via the SMTP gateway.

What formats does the FAX-MAPI printer convert?

All output formats that are common today: Microsoft Office formats (Word, Excel, etc.) as well as all formats supported by the OLE interface. Everything you can print from the Windows PC can also be converted to the fax format.

The FAX-MAPI printer does not have to be configured. (He is not client to PAPAGENO).

Fax Printers

With FAX printers, documents can be directly sent out as faxes from Linux / Unix or Windows applications (eg Word, Excel). The receiver fax number and, if necessary, the transmission priority, the desired dispatching time, priority and other transmission options are written directly into the document as control commands

The responsible fax printer interprets the control commands, evaluates them, converts the document to the fax format and transfers it to PAPAGENO.

This process can be automated via scripts or macros, e.g. for business processes.

Dispatching from Linux/Unix Applications

PostScript:
A PostScript-Dokument with control commands is sent from an application to the PAPAGENO printer faxps. This interprets the control commands, converts the document into the fax format and forwards it to PAPAGENO with all ´send options´.

ASCII:
The PAPAGENO printer faxpr interprets the control commands for fax transmission as well as for document appearence (bold, line spacing, barcode, etc.). faxpr converts the ASCII document into the fax format and forwards it to PAPAGENO.

The Unix Printer faxpspr converts ASCII or PostScript documents into fax format and forwards them to PAPAGENO.

Dispatching from Windows Applications

Documents from Windows applications (Microsoft Office, etc.) can be sent with control characters to the printer RedMon (free software). This converts the document into the PostScript or ASCII format and forwards it to the faxpspr printer (see above).

To convert documents to PostScript format a PostScript Level 2 license is required.