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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF A FACSIMILE

3. THE FUTURE OF FACSIMILES

The facsimiles we have discussed so far only transmit and receive black-

and-white images over telephone lines. How will facsimiles look in the

future?

This section describes color facsimiles, LAN-networked facsimiles and

Internet facsimiles whose use is expected to expand in the future.

3.1

Color Facsimiles

Color facsimile products that use proprietary image data compression

methods and proprietary communications protocol are already on the mar-

ket. As only low-resolution image can be tarnsmitted, and only proprietary

methods are used, communications is possible only between models of

facsimiles made by the same manufacturer.

In the future, color facsimile communications using image data compres-

sion methods and communications protocol that conform to

recom-

mendations will become standard due to the appearance of color facsimiles

capable of tarnsmitting high-resolution color images to facsimiles made by

other manufacturers.

3.2

LAN-networked Facsimiles

LANs (Local Area Networks) in offices are spreading at a rapid rate. As a

result, various trends are beginning to emerge. These include the remote

control of facsimile functions. For example, a possible application could

be to call up a letter drafted on a networked personal computer, then call

up a facsimile networked on the same LAN (let’s call this facsimile a

“LAN-FAX”), and then transmit that letter directly to a specific party from

your personal computer. This will allow people to transmit documents to

other parties directly without having to go to the lengths of printing out the

letter on paper. The same method could be applied to receiving documents.

First of all, the document to receive (image data) that is transmitted to the

LAN-FAX is temporarily stored on the LAN-FAX itself or on a LAN-net-

worked server. The content of these received document pages can also be

checked on the personal computer’s screen, and only the required pages of

the document can be printed out on paper.

An application different from a general facsimile application is also possi-

ble. Facsimiles originally are machines that have both a printer and an

image scanner. These functions could also be used effectively on the LAN;