All In One Printers.

So, my suggestion is to turn printers into all in one fax/printer/scanners.
Fax and Scanner will be new programs with a new slot. printer is the same.
Fax - Place a printed sheet in the input slot, go into your terminal and type Fax [id], id being the computer id. This will print out the sheet at the other computer, it throws an error if that computer does not have enough ink, paper, or a printer.
Scanner- Reverse printing. Put a printed sheet into the inut slot, the type Scan [name] name being the file name. In case you ever delete something you printed, and want it back.

Fax is basically the exact same thing as a printer, except it receives information from somewhere else.
Scanner, quite useless, because you could only scan text, which could be simply written in the computer instead.

Against.

I'm for the idea of a scanner peripheral, this would allow printed papers to be a bit more useful.
But a fax peripheral, not really, since with the help of a scanner, you could technically write a pair of programs for sending and receiving faxes across Rednet.

Have to agree with Anavrins, Fax would be easily implementable with Rednet. As for the scanner, I don't really see much of a use case, when would you ever need to print a page and then copy it. Well really, when do you ever need to print a page?!

A scanner.. Perhaps not in the printer sense, but could give computers some sort of vision.. I know they are meant to be blind, but meh, just an idea

Why not a compare function that tells whether 2 printed pages have exactly the same text? That keep the CC stuff blind and technically, we can make a scanner with that B)/>

well why would you have a printed page without keeping the copy of the text somewhere? if you save it make a program to wait for a message anjd print it off

jay5476, on 25 September 2013 - 12:48 AM said:

well why would you have a printed page without keeping the copy of the text somewhere? if you save it make a program to wait for a message anjd print it off

Because it's not fun, I think

I'm going for both but the fax would have to have an"auto-recieve mode" to automatically print every fax and "approval mode" to stop spammers from rapid-faxing to waste others' resources.

You could use CCScanner for faxing and such.

But I think part of the point of the suggestions forum is to have stuff implemented into the main mod, for everyone to enjoy. You make a point about your scanner peripheral, and it could be made into a fax via Rednet. In my opinion an All-In-One-Printer would be cool to have in the main mod and might be crafted like this:


The floppy disk is for spooling and for holding faxes before they are transferred to the computer with printer.getFaxes(), where printer is the wrapped peripheral. You could also use printer.scan() to scan, but the pages would sit in the paper tray rather than copied to memory the second you put them in.

awsmazinggenius, on 24 October 2013 - 09:34 AM said:

But I think part of the point of the suggestions forum is to have stuff implemented into the main mod, for everyone to enjoy. You make a point about your scanner peripheral, and it could be made into a scanner via Rednet. In my opinion an All-In-One-Printer would be cool to have in the main mod and might be crafted like this:

(crafting recipe)

The floppy disk is for spooling and for holding faxes before they are transferred to the computer with printer.getFaxes(), where printer is the wrapped peripheral. You could also use printer.scan() to scan, but the pages would sit in the paper tray rather than copied to memory the second you put them in.

A block just for faxes? Why? Have a computer with a printer do it. It can be done pretty easily now. If you don't want/don't know how to write your own spooler, use someone else's. I'm sure there are many already out there. I've been planning on writing my own one Soon™ for quite a while now, you can have it if you want it, if I ever get around to making it. Adding your fax machine block to the game would be like adding a quarry turtle to CC - a turtle that can only quarry and run no other programs. This fax block is essentially a computer that can only run a fax server in the same block as a printer and a scanner.

Why would they add an all-in-one printer block, even if it was only a stupid peripheral with no built in computer? That would be like adding an all-in-one macerator/furnace/compressor/etc. - easily implementable by a modder, but also easily doable with a macerator, a furnace, and a turtle. Instead of an all-in-one, just have a turtle or computer with a scanner, printer, and modem.

In my opinion, we don't need any new blocks for fax and scanner. For scanner, if you want to make sure that if you delete what you printed, just write a program that prints it. For fax, just write a program for sending things over rednet.

OK, I get the point. I now see how a fax is useless, but personally I have a CC program shop on a server and print order receipts when people buy software, just as proof. A scanner could be used by the customer to keep a record of everything they buy. But it's not really that important, just something I would like to see added.

Perhaps the scanner could also accept vanilla books as input. This would allow things like going out into the feild and documenting locations you need for a turtle program, and then instead of transcribing your hand-written notes you just feed it your in-game notebook.

Other shennanigans could be made possible if the scanner could also read a map and return a paintutils image. Why have one wall-mounted map when you can have a touchscreen-operated wall map browser.

Rybec, on 03 November 2013 - 09:32 PM said:

Perhaps the scanner could also accept vanilla books as input. This would allow things like going out into the feild and documenting locations you need for a turtle program, and then instead of transcribing your hand-written notes you just feed it your in-game notebook.

Scanning a handwritten book should require OCR at some point in the process.

Advanced printer - could have a scanner and more color slots for more flexible printing with color? Maybe it would have a printer, some gold (to stick with the theme), an eye of Ender (scanning) and a hopper/chest (extra color slots).

Extra functions could be…

local printer = peripheral.wrap("printer_0")
printer.setTextColor(slot of dye)
printer.setBackgroundColof(slot of dye)
printer.scan() --returns file handle for the page

Apemanzilla, on 22 November 2013 - 11:10 AM said:

Advanced printer - could have a scanner and more color slots for more flexible printing with color? Maybe it would have a printer, some gold (to stick with the theme), an eye of Ender (scanning) and a hopper/chest (extra color slots).

Extra functions could be…

local printer = peripheral.wrap("printer_0")
printer.setTextColor(slot of dye)
printer.setBackgroundColof(slot of dye)
printer.scan() --returns file handle for the page

Please don't bring already declined suggestions into sill open onces. It is clear that we are meant to only be able to print one color at a time.

+ by being tricky, you already be able to do a 16 color printer by using miscperipherals … So the "16 slots printer"'s idea is just a miss(*) of imagination …

(*) don't know what the right word in this case … Miss/lack … Don't wanna be insulting anyway =/

I though that 3in1 printers could Print, Scan or Copy (With minimal interaction). I would really like to see a scanner in the mod.