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Feb
25

COLORED OR BLACK AND WHITE?

We know for a given fact that copy machines do just that, make good reproductions of a document we want to be copied.  However, there are 2 kinds of copying machines, one is the traditional black and white, while the other is colored.  Copying machines which can reproduce in colored variation are more expensive than the ordinary greyscale type.  People who are meticulous and want even the shade of color to be exactly copied sometimes resort to copy machines which can make a colored duplicate of the original. This has been proven to be useful in projects by students, or even help employees in their presentations.  School sometimes use it when producing activities or letters.  If they want to make a good impression, they send out colored copies of their documents and not the mere greyscale types. But no matter which of the two we choose, it still produces the same document because that it is really what it was made for.

Apr
5

Copiers: Back in the Day…

copy clerk

Even if your office copier occasionally malfunctions, you’ve still got to be happy it’s there – centuries ago, copying even a single page was a much more time-consuming process. Let’s take a look at some copying methods of the past:

By hand: Ouch! Until the end of the 18th century, the only duplicates were handwritten by copy clerks, a fixture at most offices. Even after the first typewriter was invented in 1874, hand copying remained popular throughout the subsequent decades.

By letter press: Drawing on a method used by the Chinese around the 8th century, letter press copiers emerged in the late 1700s and featured the legendary (and confusing) backwards-to-forwards transition also evident in the printing press.

By carbon paper: Still alluded to in email CCs and BCCs, carbon copying was invented in 1806 and uses sheets of carbon paper to replicate handwritten marks. In fact, certain industries continue to use carbon copying today!

Pushing a button sure sounds easier than any of that, doesn’t it?