It's declaration*.
Thomas Jefferson
A printed copy of a file is typically referred to as a hard copy.
A printed copy of computer output is called a hard copy.
Copy is the newspaper word for the text of an article to be printed. Advertising copy is the text of a printed advertisement.
In Washington D.C. in the National Archives building. http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/
== == The original was not sent to the king. It sits today on display in the National Archives in Washington D.C. No official notice was given by the Congress to the British government that independence had been declared. Mail packets carried printed copies to England where they were given to government officials and printed in newspapers. British officials, such as General Howe, also included copies in their official reports to London. One copy had been sent to him directly on a British ship, but the ship was blown off course and landed in Ireland. The contents of the Declaration O Independence were published in a Belfast newspaper. That copy apparently never got to King George, but others that were forwarded to King George by other people did reach him.
Hard Copy
The Declaration of Independence was written on July 4, 1776, and the first printed copy was completed by the next day.
A printed hard copy is a printed copy of information from a computer. It is called a hard copy due to it existing as a physical object. A soft copy would be something only available on the computer.
the first copy was printed in 1898
Thomas McKean of Delaware was probably the last of the delegates to sign the Declaration of Independence. When Congress ordered the printing of an official copy of the document, including the names of the signers, in January, 1777, McKean's name was not on the list. He later signed the official copy, or the printer may have just made a mistake and left his name off. .
Copernicus received a printed copy of his treatise on his deathbed. He died on May 24, 1543.