Re: flexfax: Fax Quality

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> One of the things that have annoyed me for some time has been the resolution
> of the faxes that have been sent. Even if I use `sendfax -m' on a text
> file, the resultant fax (on the receiving fax-machine) is not quite as
> good as I would have expected from a machine-generated fax. The
> letters on the fax appears smudged. Does anyone on the list have an
> idea as to whether this problem due to any of the following:

I'm surprised. My faxes come out with a consistently higher quality
with HylaFAX.

> 	ghostscript?
> 	the modem?
> 	the fonts?

Fonts, I would guess. What version of ghostscript are you using and
how are you generating your faxes? Are you using Postscript generated
elsewhere, and have you previewed it with ghostview or previewed
hand-generated fax files with viewfax to confirm the problem?

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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