the.com/copy machine

means A machine that reproduces printed or written pages using heat, light, and toner rather than ink and a press.

from From 'copy' (via French and Latin 'copia,' meaning abundance — a copy being, originally, an overflow or multiplication of an original) plus 'machine.' The office photocopier itself descends from xerography, a dry-printing process invented in the late 1930s and commercialized by Xerox in the mid-20th century; 'xerox' comes from Greek 'xeros' (dry) plus 'graphein' (to write) — so dry writing, mechanized into the thing that jams right before your meeting.