3D Fax is a computer program, developed for Microsoft Windows by InfoImaging Technologies in the mid-1990s, for file transfer via fax. The program encodes a file into an image, which the user would then print and send via a fax machine or transmit directly from the computer using a fax modem. The recipient would then scan the transmitted image or receive it via a fax modem, and use 3D Fax to decode it back to its original binary form.
InfoImaging claimed a capacity of 40kB per sheet of paper using its image encoding of files,[1] extended to 110kB (between two fax modems) in the 2.0 version.[2] InfoWorld's reviewer found that the 1.0 version could compress both a 90kB Word document and a 302kB image file to less than 40kB, so the files could each be faxed as a single page.[3]
References
edit- ^ Somers, Asa (27 June 1995). "Receive a Color Image on a Monochrome Fax Machine". PC Mag. p. 61.
- ^ "New Products". Computerworld. 27 November 1995. p. 57.
- ^ Kvitka, Andre (10 July 1995). "3D Fax takes big leap in transferring binary files via fax or modem". InfoWorld. p. 87.