Facsimile

A facsimile from ][] the term "fax" is the shortened cause of "facsimile" though nearly faxes are non reproductions of the family expected in a true facsimile.

Facsimiles together with conservation

Important illuminated manuscripts like Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry are not only on display to the public as facsimiles, but usable in high sort to scholars. However, unlike normal book reproductions, facsimiles fall out truer to the original colors—which is particularly important for illuminated manuscripts—and preserve defects.

Facsimiles are best suited to printed or hand-written documents, as well as not to items such(a) as three-dimensional objects or oil paintings with unique surface texture. Reproductions of those latter objects are often subjected to as replicas.