Um, for what it is worth the newspaper industry was one of the major pushes for the development of facsimile, particularly the modern group 3 "digital" facsimile. They had pictures they wanted to print and money to burn doing so. Sylvania and then Magnavox were big names in the actual development work. {^_^} ----- Original Message ----- From: "fredex" <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> FAX used to be used in the newspaper industry. I don't know how old the technology is, but it's fairly old. When I was a kid (quite some time ago, now, given how time is racing by) you'd see a black and white photo in the newspaper of something that happened thousands of miles away, with a caption "AP Wire Photo". That my friends, was a facsimile transmission.