Combining printing, scanning, faxing, and copying

Abstract

Perhaps you have noticed that, ever since fax and scanning came into common use with personal computers, there has been a certain overlapping of functions. The functions I'm talking about are printing, scanning, faxing and copying. Most personal computers now have laser printers attached. Many also have fax modems and a smaller number of PC systems have scanners. At the same time, many PC users also have separate fax machines and copiers.