Preface
Since the sales boom of the 1980s and early 1990s in G3 digital fax machines, consumer demand for single-function units has leveled off to inexpensive thermal and thermal-transfer machines. E-mail has become popular as an alternative, but fax machines still provide a very useful service in transmitting and receiving paper documents.
Personal computers have usually been linked to single-function printers to provide hard copy of data. It has been fairly easy to design fax machines so that their printers and scanners can be used by personal computers, so they have become multifunction peripherals for PCs. With this development, consumer demand has increased and their popularity is on the rise again.
The technology of G3 digital fax machines ...
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