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[hylafax-users] Multifunction Fax with Seamless Transparent fax gateway capability?



Is anyone aware of a SOHO multifunction printer, fax, copier, scanner that seamlessly interoperates with a fax gateway such as
http://www.hylafax.org/content/Email_to_Fax_Gateway
or
asterfax http://asterfax.sourceforge.net/index.php?

It needs to be absolutely transparent to the end user such that they walk up, put in their paper document, enter the fax telephone #, hit fax send and walk away.  The multifunction hardware would then know to send an email to EmailToFaxGateway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject line containing the outgoing fax #.  For instance, if the user enters 4025551234 on the touchpad, the hardware emails a TIFF or PDF to EmailToFaxGateway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject line of "4025551234".  The email-to-fax gateway service on the HylaFax server would then take the email and send it over POTS to 4025551234. 

Why? 
Because in an all VOiP office, moving a fax machine and POTS analog line is expensive and a pain.
Dedicated analog POTS lines are expensive.
Sending very long documents or hi-res documents would be facilitated because they would get "scanned" and sent to the fax server with certainty.  The end user could requeue the job in HylaFax if it failed or timed out or the phone # was wrong. 
It would double as a networkable scanner.
Home users would be able to fax directly from their home machine to jfax.com or efax.com (Credentialing may be a little complex however).

Multifunction machines similar to the following do not have this seamless capability.  It would seem easy to add this as a layer in the firmware for outgoing faxes.

HPLJ 3390.
http://www.brother.com.au/Products/MFC_productoverview.asp?ProductID=220&SubCategoryID=2


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