Re: Status of receiving color JPEG fax (sent by HP OfficeJet 8600)

On 09/01/2015 03:34 PM, Chris Coleman wrote:
> Question. It's now 2015, what's the current status of receiving color 
> (or grayscale... JPEG or JBIG) fax from, for example, HP OfficeJet Pro 
> 8600 multi function fax/printer/scanner ?

Short answer: you need to use HylaFAX+.

Long answer...

Color fax receiving support was added in HylaFAX 4.2.2 for Class 1/1.0.  
However, because that's how the data comes from the sender's fax 
machine, the fax image was stored in the TIFF as ITULAB colorspace in 
JPEG... which most JPEG-enabled TIFF viewers are not going to be able to 
handle (or JPEG viewers, for that matter, if you were to strip-out the 
JPEG from the TIFF).  So, for most users, it was really not useful.

Developments in color fax support after that point were made in HylaFAX+.

Color fax support was added to Class 2.0/2.1 in HylaFAX+ 5.1.0.

Color fax sending support was added in HylaFAX+ 5.4.0.

Also in HylaFAX+ 5.4.0 received color faxes were converted from ITULAB 
colorspace to YCbCr.  At that point color faxes became useful for most 
users.

Some improvements to color fax support have occurred since then, too 
(like better page and data size support).

Thanks,

Lee.


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