Compared to those “good old days”, there are so many examples these days of how our personal and business lives have been made so much easier. Back then, duplicating anything on paper – whether hand written or typed – either involved carbon copies (of ever growing faintness as the number increased) or somewhat messy duplicating equipment where you had to type the original by cutting letters onto a stencil which could then be placed around the drum of a printing machine known as a mimeograph (messy, time consuming and producing results that feel short on attractiveness). For really huge numbers of copies, you could always go to a professional printing firm.
Quick, Fast, Efficient & Attractive Copying From A Single Copy Upwards
This is what we expect today because that is what the advent of the photocopier provided us with. For my sins, I am old enough to remember the time when my employer purchased the company’s first photocopier and the excitement that it caused throughout the workforce. Only a designated few where allowed to operate it and you needed your manager’s permission to send anything for copying. At that time, the machine itself cost quite a tidy sum of money and the “bosses” were probably more worried about damage to the machine than they were about the visible cost of the paper and other supplies that were needed.
Those early copiers were such a success that it quickly became considered as a vital piece of office equipment that should be placed in as many locations as practical – it was no longer acceptable to submit your original papers to the copying department and wait your turn in a long queue. The upsurge in demand for copiers led to their being produced in numbers that allowed for considerable reduction in the cost of buying one. Competing brands and improvements in the technology also added to lowering prices to the point where there is now, usually, at least one copier in each and every department throughout a business organization.
What About The Consumables?
The obvious one is the paper to copy onto and, apart from some areas of specialized copying, it is fortunate that almost any sort of reasonable office paper can be used for the majority of copying. The paper still has a cost but it is an acceptable one (so long as no one wastes paper on “private” copying). What can be insidious is the more hidden cost of the Toner In Queens NY that is being used up on each and every copy run off. Managers responsible for reducing office overheads should look seriously at the prices being paid for copying toner in Queens NY along with the frequency of such purchases.
