SICFilePlus: Fax Solution for Canon iR
devices
This product may be of help to send faxes through a
Canon iR device.
Basically two types of input are supported:
- Postscript data.
- Text or PCL data. In this case the PCL data needs to
be relatively "simple", i.e. no sophisticated images or graphics are
supported.
This is related to a technical specification of the Canon iR device which
imposes us to rasterise the data into Fax group G4 format on the UNIX/Linux
workstation before sending the data to the Canon device.
Some customisation will always be required: The fax
number of the document should be communicated one way or the other.
Quite often a home made application will be able to supply this information in
a simple manner, for example as an argument on the command line.
In other cases the S.I.C. fax program will search for this information within
the data stream itself.
In general a solution will be found easily after a short discussion with the
customer.
Normally the S.I.C. fax driver will be working from
within a printer queue and the customer simply sends his data (sometimes with
the fax number as an argument of the command line).
Technically this solution works in the following
manner:
- The input data (PostScript or PCL) are rasterised in
a fax group G4 bitmap.
- This bitmap is, together with the fax number,
transformed into a CPCA file.
- The CPCA file is then send to the iR device, which
should of course have a fax board.
- Finally the iR device will send the fax.
As a special option it is possible to send the fax
with a customer defined form or overlay.
For a SICFilePlus product you can contact your local
Canon sales representative who will make the link with SIC
International.
