You Should Have Seen It When the Copier Was Busy

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Co-Founder of Crickets Global, Founder of Print4Pay Hotel, Founder of Jersey Plotters. ENX Difference Maker for 2022. 8 Times Awarded “ENX Difference Maker” for Technology.

For most of my career, the small office copier was the center of the business.

I still remember walking into offices early in my career and the copier would be the first thing you noticed. You didn’t have to ask where it was, you could hear it. The machine would be humming away, someone standing there waiting for their copies, someone else trying to figure out why their job jammed. There was almost always a stack of originals sitting on top of the feeder. That copier wasn’t just a machine; it was the heartbeat of the office.

Everything seemed to happen around it. Contracts were copied there, proposals were assembled there, invoices were duplicated there. And every now and then someone would make a personal copy of something and glance around the room like they were committing a crime. If the copier went down, the whole office felt it. Work slowed, people complained, and somebody inevitably called the service number written on the sticker on the front of the machine.

Back then every business needed one. No question about it.

Something Changed

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