- Extension
- .six
- .g4
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Fax
- Developer
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- Description
- This is a bitmap graphics file format created for printers and terminals by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It is another extension of the SIXEL file.
- Group 4 (G4) used for black and white lossless compression to maintain high-quality images, commonly used in TIFF format compression by fax machines. A picture is seen as black dots and lines on a blank page; the fewer the dots and lines are, the lesser the file size.
- MIME Type
- image/x-sixel
- image/g4fax
