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BMP

Windows Bitmap (Legacy Windows MIME Alias)

image/x-windows-bmp
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Fuji Xerox EDMICS-MMR

image/vnd.fujixerox.edmics-mmr
EDMICS-MMR

A complete technical comparison of Windows Bitmap (Legacy Windows MIME Alias) and Fuji Xerox EDMICS-MMR — covering compression, feature support, browser compatibility, magic bytes, and when to choose each format.

BMP wins on browser support

Feature Support

Feature BMP EDMICS-MMR
Transparency (Alpha) Yes ✕ No
Animation Support ✕ No ✕ No
Progressive Loading ✕ No ✕ No
HDR Support ✕ No ✕ No
EXIF Metadata ✕ No ✕ No
ICC Color Profile Yes ✕ No
Windows Bitmap (Legacy Windows MIME Alias)
image/x-windows-bmp
Extension
.bmp.dib
Container DIB (Device-Independent Bitmap)
Compression Uncompressed / Run-Length Encoding (RLE)
Algorithm
NoneRLE4RLE8
Color Depth 1-bit (Monochrome), 4-bit (16 colors), 8-bit (256 colors), 16-bit (High Color), 24-bit (True Color), 32-bit (True Color with Alpha)
Developed by Microsoft Corporation
Released 1985
Magic Bytes
42 4D
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Fuji Xerox EDMICS-MMR
image/vnd.fujixerox.edmics-mmr
Extension
.mmr.edm
Container Fuji Xerox EDMICS Wrapper
Compression Modified Modified READ (MMR / Group 4 Fax)
Algorithm
MMR (ITU-T T.6 / CCITT Group 4)
Color Depth 1-bit (Monochrome / Bi-level)
Developed by Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
Released 1990s
Magic Bytes
Unknown (Proprietary Container wrapped around MMR bitstream)
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Browser Support Comparison

Browser BMP EDMICS-MMR
Chrome Chrome
✓ 1
 ✕
Firefox Firefox
✓ 1
 ✕
Safari Safari
✓ 1
 ✕
Edge Edge
✓ 12
 ✕
IE IE (Legacy)
✓
 ✕
BMP

BMP Strengths

  • Universally supported by all major operating systems and modern web browsers
  • Maintains perfect, lossless fidelity because pixel data is stored without lossy compression artifacts
Limitations
  • Massive file size overhead due to a lack of modern compression algorithms
  • Legacy MIME strings like 'image/x-windows-bmp' can trigger validation warnings in strict security or API environments if unhandled
EDMICS-MMR

EDMICS-MMR Strengths

  • Utilized the highly efficient MMR (Group 4) algorithm, which allowed massive, E-size engineering blueprints to be compressed into tiny file sizes suitable for 1990s hard drives and networks
  • Deeply integrated into Fuji Xerox hardware and database systems for seamless scan-to-archive workflows
Limitations
  • Completely proprietary and closed-source, making modern archival extraction and migration extremely difficult
  • No support in modern image processing libraries like ImageMagick, libvips, or standard TIFF viewers without first stripping the proprietary header
  • Strictly limited to 1-bit monochrome images

When to choose which format

BMP
Use BMP when…
  • Legacy Windows Desktop Registry Associations
  • Older Enterprise Intranet Applications
  • Windows Graphics Archival
EDMICS-MMR
Use EDMICS-MMR when…
  • Fuji Xerox EDMICS Enterprise Systems
  • Archival of Large-Format Engineering Drawings
  • Legacy Corporate Document Scanning Pipelines

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