Fragment 4 of 72 · drawer 01
Facsimile receiving checklist
A reconstructed receiver-side checklist for a document delivered as ordered lines rather than as an indivisible file.
- Accession
- MW-F-004
- Representative period
- Representative office practice, 1988–1998
- Drawer
- Instructions & warnings
- Certainty
- moderate
Facsimile receiving checklist
Representative office practice, 1988–1998
Observed surface
Confirm paper is present before the call begins.
Leave the telephone path undisturbed until the final page signal.
Count received pages against the cover note while the connection can still be retried.
Implied procedure
Inspect the lower edge of each sheet: the end of a page proves more than its beginning.
If the final lines are absent, mark the sheet INCOMPLETE rather than filing an apparently plausible document.
Interpretive residue
A page arriving top-first could be useful before it was complete and dangerous for exactly the same reason.
The checklist makes completeness a human judgment performed after transmission.
Accountability record
Evidence beneath the reconstruction.
These institutional sources support the mechanism or historical practice interpreted above. They do not contain this reconstructed record, its wording, or its invented values.
- International Telecommunication Union · 2003 Recommendation T.4: Group 3 facsimile terminals Defines how black-and-white and colour documents are represented for transmission by Group 3 fax terminals. Open institutional record ↗
- International Telecommunication Union · 2005 Recommendation T.30: Procedures for document facsimile transmission The call-control and negotiation procedures that surround the page encoding defined by T.4. Open institutional record ↗
- International Telecommunication Union · 2006 A history of international facsimile standardization ITU's institutional account of Group 1, Group 2 and digital Group 3, including the representative progression from roughly six minutes to three minutes to under one minute per page. Open institutional record ↗