{"id":2177,"date":"2012-04-27T15:07:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T15:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweekinimaging.com\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2012-04-27T15:07:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T15:07:25","slug":"between-the-lines-fax-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/editors-blog\/2012\/04\/between-the-lines-fax-flashback\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Lines: Fax Flashback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_01391.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-192\" title=\"IMG_0139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_01391-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>You don\u2019t hear much talk about fax these days, but when it\u2019s mentioned it makes me wax nostalgic. I\u2019ve been working on an article about A4 for another publication and the \u201cF\u201d word came up the other day in a conversation with Lou Stricklin at Muratec. It was more of a passing reference, but for some bizarre reason I had a flashback afterwards to the first time I heard the \u201cF\u201d word in conversation. It was 1985 and I was working for a cable television magazine as a listings editor and my job each month was to contact each of the cable channels and ask them to overnight me their monthly listings. One day my contact for Bravo asked if we had a fax machine. A what? If we had one I didn\u2019t know anything about it because no one was using that \u201cF\u201d word around the office let alone using the \u201cF\u201d machine if we even had one. I don\u2019t think we did. I pleaded stupidity, saying something like, \u201cI don\u2019t think so\u201d and the next day I received an overnight package with my listings.<\/p>\n<p>Six months later I find myself in a new position as associate editor at an office trade magazine writing about fax machines, reading press releases and brochures about fax with clever titles like \u201cJust the Fax, Ma\u2019am\u201d as well as sending and receiving faxes, and attending trade shows like NOMDA where I learned to feign excitement for the latest fax models from the likes of Mitsubishi, Telefax (I think that was their name, correct me if I\u2019m wrong.), and Fujitsu among many others. Anyway, that conversation with Lou got me thinking about how far we\u2019ve come since 1986.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New content this week includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strategy Development Takes a Higher Ed Approach to Dealer Education<\/li>\n<li>After Hours with Konica Minolta\u2019s Kevin Kern<\/li>\n<li>Art Post Pinches a Penny<\/li>\n<li>What Did You Sell This Week?<\/li>\n<li>April News Bytes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for reading and please support our sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t hear much talk about fax these days, but when it\u2019s mentioned it makes me wax nostalgic. I\u2019ve been working on an article about A4 for another publication and the \u201cF\u201d word came up the other day in a conversation with Lou Stricklin at Muratec. It was more of a passing reference, but for some bizarre reason I had a flashback afterwards to the first time I heard the \u201cF\u201d word in conversation. It was 1985 and I was working for a cable television magazine as a listings editor and my job each month was to contact each of the cable channels and ask them to overnight me their monthly listings. One day my contact for Bravo asked if we had a fax machine. A what? If we had one I didn\u2019t know anything about it because no one was using that \u201cF\u201d word around the office let alone using the \u201cF\u201d machine if we even had one. I don\u2019t think we did. I pleaded stupidity, saying something like, \u201cI don\u2019t think so\u201d and the next day I received an overnight package with my listings. Six months later I find myself in a new position as associate editor at an office trade magazine writing about fax machines, reading press releases and brochures about fax with clever titles like \u201cJust the Fax, Ma\u2019am\u201d as well as sending and receiving faxes, and attending trade shows like NOMDA where I learned to feign excitement for the latest fax models from the likes of Mitsubishi, Telefax (I think that was their name, correct me if I\u2019m wrong.), and Fujitsu among many others. Anyway, that conversation with Lou got me thinking about how far we\u2019ve come since 1986.\u00a0 \u00a0 New content this week includes: Strategy Development Takes a Higher Ed Approach to Dealer Education After Hours with Konica Minolta\u2019s Kevin Kern Art Post Pinches a Penny What Did You Sell This Week? 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