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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Munroe who wrote (3315)	11/14/1998 7:54:00 PM
From: Jim Munroe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

The impact of Iomega beyond PC's is being underestimated. Having the ability to slip a disk (Zip or Clik!) into a fax machine or copying machine and use a data file as input will have a profound effect on the quality of the result. Look at the difference in quality between a fax sent from a computer and a fax sent through an ordinary fax machine where the original has to be scanned first. The one from the pc is very sharp and clear because it did not have to be scanned in. This is even more true with running copies of reports with pictures or graphics where a "master" is generally first printed out from a computer and then scanned into a copying machine--each step degrading the quality of the original. This becomes yet truer when the original is in color. Printing out a "master" and scanning it back into a color printer adds serious problems in maintaining color fidelity. A computer file as input to the copying machine has all the color information in digital form and the color fidelity remains undegraded. In engineering terms, we are dealing with transfer functions where each step (transfer) degrades the information content. Staying digital reduces the number of transfers. Digital input, as I think (hope!) Iomega is pursuing, could indeed become very big. Other devices could be used (CD ROM or Orb) but they have to have the wide acceptance and ease of use that only Zip or ultimately Clik! has. Just a thought for a rosier future.