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In article <1992Apr6.224419.26872@newshost.lanl.gov>, freedman@bellman.lanl.gov (Keith S. Freedman) writes:
|> The next generation of fax will provide many useful features:
|> --Color Fax transmission

It's already being done.  Many newspapers/magazines use this to transmit
photos, ad copy, etc.

|> --Higher resolution output at higher rates of speed

The truth that FAX transmissions already push the limit as far as top
speed goes on Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) lines.  The only way to
speed up transmission would be to use some data compression alg. which
usually means that resolution is lost.  This puts a damper on higher 
resolution transmissions.  You have to as yourself "Do I want speed OR
is quality what is more important?"

|> --Possible OCR recognition built in (for standard fonts, at least).

What's OCR?  If it's what I think it is (font recognition) then you need
higher resolution to get a higher accuracy in identifing the character.
The blocky resolution of today's FAXes will not get you far.

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