How has the photocopier made jobs easier?

Answer 1

Prior to the advent of the photocopier, making a duplicate of any document (such as a type written page) involved either a) using carbon paper to make a rather messy and poor quality copy as you typed, or b) hand copying the document itself. Before computerized word processing, documents were either hand written, or typed. Before the typewriter, they were handwritten. In the 'olden' days before any mechanical writing devices (and discounting the printing press, which was not really an individual's tool) the only way to get a copy of a document was to hand-copy it. Monks and clerks or scribes were an entire class of people who did nothing but reproduce documents.