As any user of a photocopier knows, the purchase price is only the beginning.

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Canon and Ricoh, two successful photocopier companies, already combine mechanics, toner technology and servicing skills.

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Apart from the obvious "talking" hum drum you get, the photocopier and fax machines are right behind me.

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The machine that Cookson currently use looks like a large piece of office equipment and sounds like a photocopier.

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Turak remembers when he won an award as a 22-year-old photocopier salesman.

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" The company has also jettisoned its Dictaphone unit and a me-too photocopier business, built in an ill-conceived effort to expand beyond the mailroom into "document management.

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Patents issued to Chester Carlson, Ted Hoff, and Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, inventors of the photocopier, microprocessor and personal computer, respectively, are examples.

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The best example of this the photocopier services.

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