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Fax

Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. The original document is scanned with a fax machine (or a telecopier), which processes the contents…

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Fax

Nodes132
Edges131
Triples227
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015152
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related to Wire transmission · 30
Fax → Alexander Bain, An, Around, Arthur Korn, Bain, Bain's, Belin, Bildtelegraph, British, Bélinographe, Electric Printing Telegraph, English, Europe, Frederick Bakewell, German, Giovanni Caselli, He, Hellschreiber, Henry Sutton's, In
related to Wireless transmission · 24
Fax → After, Also, AM, America, As, AT, Beginning, Commercial, Finch, Finch Facsimile, Finch's, Herbert, Ives, London, New York, November, President Calvin Coolidge, Radio Corporation, Ranger, Ranger's
related to Further reading · 17
Fax → App, Coopersmith, Fall, Fax Machine, Faxed, FaxFlow, How, Johns Hopkins University Press, Jonathan, May, Scientific American, Send, Telegraph, The Rise, Transmitting Photographs, Without, Your
related to In the 21st century · 16
Fax → A4, Although, Berlin, Convenience-store, COVID-19, Germany, In, In Germany, In Japan, Internet-based, Japan, Such, The, They, United States, Use
related to Related standards · 16
Fax → FoIP, Hylafax, IP, It, ITU, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, MIME-typeSSL Fax An, RFC, The, The ITU, This, VoIP, When, Wikisource-logo
related to Digital transmission and height of popularity · 15
Fax → Accompanying, By, CCITT's Recommendation, Ethernet, Fax Services, Faxes, However, In, Individual, ITU-T, Japanese, Recommendation, Some, The CCITT, Xerox
related to Fax tone · 15
Fax → Called Station Identification, Calling Tone, CED, CNG, DCS, Digital Command Signals, Digital Identification Signals, DIS, ECM, Hz, International Telecommunication Union, ITU, The, This, When
related to Internet fax · 14
Fax → Also, Another, Bliley Act, Faxes, Gramm, HIPAA, Internet, Leach, No, One, PDF, Some, TIFF, Utilizing
related to Telephone transmission · 13
Fax → Analog, At, Dacom, In, LDX, Lockheed, Long Distance Xerography, Magnafax Telecopiers, The, This, Up, Xerox, Xerox Corporation
related to Class · 12
Fax → All, Amendment, Class, Computer, CPU, G3, Implementations, It, ITU-T, The, This, What

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machines itu-t faxes group compression facsimile machine image transmission data 30 digital first lines standard telephone use using used class

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emailinstance ofthey have largely been rendered obsolete by Internet-based technologies0.80text
the World Wide Webinstance ofthey have largely been rendered obsolete by Internet-based technologies0.80text
but are still used in some medical administrationinstance ofthey have largely been rendered obsolete by Internet-based technologies0.80text
law enforcement settingsinstance ofthey have largely been rendered obsolete by Internet-based technologies0.80text
hardwareinstance ofWhich is preferable to use depends on factors0.80text
softwareinstance ofWhich is preferable to use depends on factors0.80text
modem firmwareinstance ofWhich is preferable to use depends on factors0.80text
and expected use.Printing processFax machines from the 1970s to the 1990s often used direct thermal printers with rolls of thermal paper as their printing technologyinstance ofWhich is preferable to use depends on factors0.80text
but in the mid-1990s a transition was made towards plain-paper faxesinstance ofWhich is preferable to use depends on factors0.80text
and expected useinstance ofWhich is preferable to use depends on factors0.80text
Faxrelated to CapabilitiesThere0.60section
Faxrelated to CapabilitiesITU-T0.60section

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