On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:44:35 -0400, Richard Wordingham
<richard@...> wrote:

> communicating by scanned images rather than text.

It seems quite likely that facsimile ("fax") technology got a big boost
from the desire of Japanese besinesses to communicate via handwritten
messages. (As well, 24-pin impact printers quite likely were developed to
print the Japanese subset of CJK.)

Regards,

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