Fax would hit the market. Xerox continued to refine the fax machine for years after their ground-breaking first machine. In later years it would be combined with copier equipment to create the hybrid machines we have today that copy, scan and fax. Some of the lesser known capabilities of the Xerox fax technologies included their Ethernet enabled Fax Services on their 8000 workstations in the early 1980s. Prior to the introduction of the ubiquitous fax machine, one of the first being the Exxon Qwip in the mid-1970s, facsimile machines worked by optical scanning of a document or drawing spinning on a
Elton Fax by Fax included such titles as "West African Vignettes" (1960),"Contemporary Black Leaders" (1970), "Seventeen Black Artists" (1972), "Garvey" (1972, a biography of Marcus Garvey), "Through Black Eyes: Journeys of a Black Artist to East Africa and Russia" (1974), "Black Artists of the New Generation" (1977), and "Hashar" (1980). In addition, Fax illustrated books by children's authors such as Georgene Faulkner and Verna Aardema, and created dust jacket art for various publishers, as well as a literacy pamphlet for the Pan American Union. Fax toured Latin America in 1955, and was a lecturer in East Africa in 1963, both times sponsored