I love all kinds of technologies. Specifically to printing, I like inkjets, lasers, and offset printing. There's good and bad to all of them and they're very different. Even though some of the technologies are hundreds of years old and some newer they are all quite fascinating considering someone had to come up with the idea out of nothingness.
Here's some honest advice for aab1. You seem to have a knack for technology and modifying it to suit your needs, drive down costs, etc. You also seem very passionate about your inkjets and that's cool. I myself love copiers, even more specific I love the study of magnetology.
You should try and put your energy and gift into good use. Maybe you can design your own inkjet, or patent and sell a modification to the manufacturer.
Now in my opinion, lasers are far superior in most applications. It's my opinion right now and no one will change it. But if laser devices are costing more than inkjets, see if you can come up with a way to improve them and make them for less money without the loss of quality.
As far as inkjets go, here's something you can work on...address printers. Check them out, they are made by several companies, Bryce, Secap, Pitney Bowes, Hasler, Neopost, Rena, and probably others. Now these printers use inkjet technology, actually they use HP inkjet cartridges but they cost several thousand up to tens of thousands of dollars. Bottom line, they are inkjet printers. But they are made to handle small and large envelopes, booklets, and postcards. They feed them better (with straight paper path) to apply the addresses and barcodes for bulk mailing and discounts. Maybe you can come up with a more cost effective address printer. If anyone can do it, it has to be you. I mean that in a positive way.
Maybe someday there will be an AAB1 address inkjet printer for less than ten grand that any business can afford.
As far as your original question, I don't know. Maybe it can be disabled, maybe not. Maybe you can modify it. We used to have a complaint of a dedicated brother fax that kept beeping or ringing so I snipped the speaker wires...problem solved.
I don't know what country you're from but Verizon has a distinctive ring feature you can get. Basically two numbers on one phone line, the fax gets a unique ring to it and you set the fax up to recognize it. Call your phone company about it.
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