Abstract: A real-time still-video to facsimile conversion system (FIG. 3) converts a still-video image frame into a half-tone facsimile reproduction without having to store an entire intermediated grey-scale image frame. Conversion of a still-video image to a half-tone facsimile output is accomplished by repeatedly transmitting the still-video image frame from a still-video source to a still-video input circuit (10), with a virtual facsimile page synchronization module (20) providing synchronization to a virtual facsimile page. In successive image frames, a video pixel grabber (34) grabs successive columns of image pixels, and provides them to a half-tone pixel converter (32) for conversion to facsimile lines--for the exemplary embodiment a 3.times.3 half-tone pixel format is used, so that the 525 raster lines of an image pixel column are transformed into three facsimile lines using a total of 1575 dots per line (out of the standard 1728 dot facsimile line).