Fax is the process of transferring copies of documents by implementing telecommunications technology. Fax is the short form of facsimile which from Latin translation means to make a copy. Fax transfers facsimiles or documents by using a fax machine over the telephone network and hence it is also known as telecopier .
A fax machine includes a modem, an image scanner and an inkjet, thermal or laser printer united with a single package. The content printed on a hard copy is converted into digital image by a scanner, the image data is send over a phone line to another device by the modem and the transmitted copy of the document is produced at the other end through a printer. The fax machine attached to a computer is called a multifunction printer or MFPs
The modern fax machines became popular during the mid- 1970s. Japan was the first country to introduce the digital fax machines and they had the advantage over competing technologies like the teleprinter. Gradually easy to use input method editors were invented and faxing became popular throughout the world during the 1980s.
