The Photocopier Reaches 50
July 27th, 2010 Posted in General, Industry News, Printer Reviews
It has saved workers countless hours, produced forests worth of documents, been cursed by anyone who’s faced a paper jam on deadline and been used by office pranksters to copy body parts. The photocopier, the most iconic piece of office equipment, is now half a century old!
In March of 1960, the first photocopier was shipped to a customer by Haloid Xerox, a little-known photographic-supply company in New York. The contraption was the size of two washing machines, weighed 648 pounds and had to be turned on its side to fit through doorways. It also occasionally caught on fire.
But it revolutionized the workplace as we know it.
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