3D Fax is a computer program, developed for

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by InfoImaging Technologies in the mid-1990s, for

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via

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. The program encodes a file into an image, which the user would then print and send via a

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or transmit directly from the computer using a

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. The recipient would then

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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 40 kB per sheet of paper using its image encoding of files, extended to 110kB (between two

s) in the 2.0 version.

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's reviewer found that the 1.0 version could

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both a 90kB

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document and a 302kB image file to less than 40kB, so the files could each be faxed as a single page.

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