Mr. Horner then sent a fax of the document to Lee Zeidman, a "60 Minutes" producer, and it was included in a Mike Wallace report that was broadcast on April 20 , 1997 to support arguments that the Southwest border is easily bypassed by large drug cargos.
One segment of the fax industry is experiencing growth: the all-in-one machines that let users scan, print and then either fax a document or send it to their computer to be attached to an e-mail.
Of course, during the one or two times each year when I actually needed to send a fax or scan a document or receipts, I almost regretted not buying a new machine.
At this point, whenever you have to print, scan, or fax a document, that creates friction.
Fax-based data -- which is merely just a picture of a document and not a usable data file -- provide no such capabilities.
You can send a picture of a document to the scanR.com service, which will digitize the image and fax it to a number where you can pick up the document or display the image back on your phone.
Even if fax machines are eliminated, it is the fax protocol and not the fax machine that determines whether a document is called a fax.
We initially contacted and screened potential participants (Technical Appendix Section A) using telephones, email, and fax transmission of documents.
A fax machine works by scanning a document and mapping very small areas of the document into either a black pixel (picture element) or a white pixel.
At the end of that call, I opted to hold for an additional 20 minutes while a document was prepared and faxed to me saying that everything had been cleared up.
He said his office and Dr. Vladeck's office had been told that the items that being shredded at Mr. Wallace's office were merely faxes of documents whose originals were in the office.
