Meaning of black fax | Babel Free

Definitions

A prank fax transmission whose pages are entirely filled with a uniform black tone, so as to waste the ink of the recipient.

Examples

“They also pranked the Church of Scientology members by sending hundreds of pizzas to the headquarters in Europe, and some sent black faxes (i.e., black sheets of paper sent to a fax machine in an endless loop to drain the ink and damage the machine) to the Los Angeles headquarters.”

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