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Article: AMERICAN FIRMS PERFORM END RUN ON JAPANESE FACSIMILE INDUSTRY
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- October 15, 1986
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NEW YORK - Over the past decade a half-million
American offices bought facsimile machines to send graphs and
documents over telephone lines, and Japanese manufacturers, who
gradually took over the market for those machines, garnered most of
the profits.
Now, however, new technology could help domestic companies perform
an end run around Japan's dominance of the $400 million facsimile
market. Companies ranging from such corporate giants as AT&T andIBM
to tiny Chorus Data of Merrimack, N.H., and the Datacopy Corp. of
Mountain View, Calif., have been figuring out ways to link electronic
scanners, which resemble copiers, to personal computers.
The result is that some businesses can use their ...