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hard copy
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A printed copy, especially of the output of a computer or word processor.
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Information printed on paper in contrast to being electronically displayed on a computer screen. This term is now used by many people to represent all paper documents, including memos, order forms, letters, print advertisements, books, catalogs, and so on. Hard copy has the advantage of being accessible to everyone everywhere, without the expense or inconvenience of a computer. In addition, even the best electronic images cannot duplicate an original image as well as a printed image can. However, hard copy is not easily modified or transmitted over distances and takes space and time to store and retrieve.
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Computer term for output printed directly on paper. The user types commands, instructions, or data on a keyboard. The computer's responses, as well as the information entered, are printed on paper, which gives the user a permanent copy of the input.
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Readable output from a computer generated in a storable form such as printed on paper or on microfiche; contrasts with soft copy in which the data are displayed on a video terminal or presented in some other transitory form.
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- Hardware and Peripherals - hard copy: computer output printed on paper; printout
- Publishing - hard copy: printout of text stored on computer
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Hard copy
For the television series, see Hard Copy.
In information handling, a hard copy is a permanent reproduction, or copy, in the form of a physical object, of any media suitable for direct use by a person (in particular paper), of displayed or transmitted data. Examples of hard copy include teleprinter pages, continuous printed tapes, facsimile pages, computer printouts, and radio photo prints.
Magnetic tapes, diskettes, and non printed punched paper tapes are not hard copies.
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"Dead-tree edition"
Dead-tree edition refers to a printed paper version of a written work, as opposed to digital alternatives such as a web page. It is a dysphemism for hard copy. Variations include dead-tree format and dead-tree-ware. "Dead-tree" refers to trees being cut down for raw material for producing paper. Newspapers are, sometimes pejoratively, referred to as the dead-tree-press. The Guardian website on 29 November 2006 wrote:
"Maybe this is more a multimedia victory for Jeff Randall himself: he did manage a dead-tree front page, web scoop, vodcast and major plug on the 10 O'clock news."[1]
A related saying among computer fans is "You can't grep dead trees",[2] from the Unix command grep meaning to search the contents of text files. This means that an advantage of keeping documents in digital form rather than on paper is that they can be more easily searched for specific contents. An exception are texts stored as digital images (digital facsimile), as they cannot be easily searched, except by sophisticated means such as optical character recognition or examining the infrequently used image metadata. On the other hand, paper copies have tremendous data integrity in proper conditions.
Related dysphemism include "tree carcass" for a book and "tree-killer" for a computer printer
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- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2006/nov/28/acrossplatformvictoryforje
- ^ Jargon File, article "Documentation"
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- Hard copy as defined in Federal Standard 1037C.
This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document "Federal Standard 1037C" (in support of MIL-STD-188).
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