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the office oracle that senses your deadline and chooses violence
means A machine that reproduces documents and images onto paper, typically by scanning an original and printing duplicates.
from From 'copy' plus the agent suffix '-er,' marking the thing that does the copying. 'Copy' traces back through Old French 'copie' to Latin 'copia,' meaning 'abundance' or 'plenty' — the same root behind 'copious.' The leap from 'abundance' to 'reproduction' came through medieval scribal Latin, where 'copia' meant making a written transcript, an abundant supply of an original text. So a copier is, at heart, a machine for manufacturing plenty — fittingly named for a device that produces far more pages than anyone asked for.
- xerox origin
- first plain-paper copier shipped in 1959
- dry process
- xerography means dry writing in greek
- paper jams
- toner is fused with heat near 200 celsius
- hidden code
- color copiers print invisible tracking dots
- refusal trick
- most won't copy currency by design
xerox 914 — first commercial plain paper copier, introduced 1959, revolutionized office work
canon imagerunner — best-selling multifunction copier series since 1997, dominates enterprise market
ricoh mp c3004 — high-volume color copier standard in corporate offices worldwide, 30 pages per minute