[missing-sync-winmobile-talk] WM5 PocketPC and fax

[pws2000 at gmx.net]

The software "truefax" might just be what you are looking for:

http://www.kse.de/showarticle.php?id=25&sub=bestellung

Regards,
Peter

On 02.04.2006, at 18:51 pm, Donald Stidwell wrote:

> On 4/2/06 11:25 AM, "Jim Robertson" <jamesrob at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> I hope I'll be forgiven for posting a newbie question here that's not
>> specifically related to iSync. I'm looking at Cingular's quad-band  
>> 8125
>> Pocket PC phone. One thing I'd like to do with it is be able to  
>> print forms
>> stored on the handheld as .pdf files or Word documents on fax  
>> machines close
>> to where I am (I'm a physician; these would mostly be customized  
>> admission
>> and discharge order sets, informed consent forms for procedures I  
>> perform,
>> etc.). Currently I carry a bunch of these forms around in my car,  
>> but if I'm
>> sitting on "2 East" or "4 West" I could just print to the nursing  
>> station
>> fax machine. Do these phone/pda units have the ability to function  
>> as fax
>> transmitters without using a service such as eFax?
>>
>> Before you suggest I just log on to my hospital's 802.11.g  
>> network, I should
>> tell you my hospitals don't HAVE such networks available to the  
>> medical
>> staff.
>>
>> Has anyone used the Cingular 8125? They're also marketing an HP  
>> device
>> (hw6515), which ships with Pocket PC 2003 phone edition, but it's  
>> more
>> expensive, has a smaller screen, and has a tiny keyboard.
>>
>> If this is thought by the listmoms to be too far off topic to  
>> carry as a
>> thread, I'd appreciate any off-list replies.
>>
>> Thanks so much,
>>
>> Jim Robertson
>>                   __o
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>>    My other car is a Calfee
>
> Jim, basically the answer is no, unless someone knows something I  
> don't. I'm
> not familiar with the particular device you want to use, but on WM  
> devices
> in general, printing is not directly supported without a network.  
> (I'm not
> even sure that network printing is available with WM5 devices. With  
> WM2003SE
> devices, HPs mobile printing is available, but only for certain  
> types of
> files and even then I'm not sure PDF is one of the supported file  
> types).
>
> Where printing is supported, you can also print to an I/R device,  
> but I've
> not heard of any support to printing to a FAX device.
>
> You can try and Google any other solution, but I don't really think  
> what you
> want to do is possible.
>
> Don
>
>
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