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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
ITU-T
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;
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