Sharp moves ahead with color fax; others wait for debut of JPEG standard. (Joint Photographic Experts Group)

EDN, June, 1990 by Rooney, Paula

Sharp moves ahead with color fax ATLANTA, GA--Sharp Electronics Corp (Mahwah, NJ) became the second company to go public with a color facsimile machine earlier this month, joining Star Signal Inc (Campbell, CA). Other companies say they'll wait for a "nondestructive" color-fax compression and transmission standard due from the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG). the problem: a JPEG standard won't be ready until 1992 at the earliest.

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