The Magazine
The Special Collected Edition
The web edition of a 72-page magazine produced for an audience of one, in memory of a filing briefcase. Every article below is the real text; a handful of photographic plates are withheld here and live only in the private printing.
Features
The Editor’s LetterShe saw clutter. I saw infrastructure. The Decade, Year by Year1988–2000 in milestones The Filing BriefcaseSystems & methods, incl. the M Crisis The FinishersWhat happens after the copy is the point The Great Debate: RDF v RDHSame machine; correspondence raged On FormThe industrial design desk reports The Copier on FilmA filmography, one case unsolved Special Presentation: the Xerox 1090Sponsor imaginary; machine not The Lounge-Room Floor, AnnotatedThe photograph and the site plan Where Are They Now?The industry since 2000 — an elegy Gordon BusinessprintThe back-cover advertisement, rent-free with loveBrand Reviews
CanonThe empire of the New Process XeroxThe Document Company, mid-transformation Ricoh & FamilyThe quiet giant and its many masks MitaThe copier-only company — glory and fall KonicaU-Bix heritage, digital speed king MinoltaThe camera company that saw colour first SharpThe value engineer ToshibaSpeed in the model number PanasonicThe Medallion workhorses OcéThe Dutch heretics of the copy press KodakPrint-room royalty, sold to Danka The Badge EngineersNashua · Gestetner · LanierReference
How to Read a Model NumberA field cryptanalysis The Big Matrix101 machines, filed by speed
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