photocopyingn.

1864 Times 13 Jan. 1/3 (advt.) A carte de visite copied, and enlarged.., beautifully painted in water-colours..for 5s. 6d... London Photo Copying Company.

1865 Times 14 Mar. 1/4 (advt.) Album portraits, 10 for 2s. 6d.—The Sun Photo-Copying Company.

1875 Harper's Weekly 6 Feb. 122/2 (advt.) Photo-copying for agents. Oldest house in America. New catalog and price-list, just out.

1901 G. E. Brown Ferric & Heliographic Processes 4 (advt.) Benrose's ‘Perfection’ Brand Photo Papers For Producing Copies from Tracings... Photo Copying Department.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 93/2 Sun Copying, or Photo Copying, the name given to that branch of photographic contact printing which is carried out without the aid of a camera-made negative.

1924 C. W. Hackleman Commerc. Engraving & Printing (rev. ed.) 792 Photo copying machines. In Fig. 2015 is shown a machine for making copies of records, drawings,..flat merchandise, etc., by a simplified method of photography, the copies being made in enlarged, reduced or natural size directly upon sensitized paper.

1948 Libr. Assoc. Rec. Feb. 37/1 There are private photocopying firms in most cities.

1968 Brit. Med. Bull. 24 222/1 Many laboratories..have used photocopying or laboratory record cards as a means of reporting their results.

1972 A. Price Col. Butler's Wolf vi. 55 He passed the sheets to Butler. Anonymous, greyish photocopying paper; the reproduction of a letter.

2000 Independent 12 June (Monday Review section) 4/2 ‘You cheeky so and so! I'm a Member of Parliament—I have staff who do my photocopying!’ she said, before flouncing out.