Paper People Copiers Work Top Side Bottom Offices

Most offices in the United States have copiers, but the people who work with them often get "frustrated" (angry or upset because something is not the way that one wants it to be) when they don't work "properly" (correctly, the way that something should be). Sometimes copiers "malfunction" (don't work correctly) because people don't know how to use the advanced "functions" (special things that a copier can do).

"Fancy" (very nice, with lots of options) copiers have many "paper trays," where paper is kept for making copies. Often people choose the wrong paper tray, for example printing on "legal" (8.5"x14") instead of "letter" (8.5"x11") paper. Usually offices have paper trays with different sizes, types, and color paper. Sometimes a paper tray has "letterhead" (the official paper that a company uses for its documents, usually with the logo, address, and phone number at the top).

Most copiers can also make "double-sided copies" (papers that have text or images on both sides), either from "single-sided" or double-sided originals. When people try to do it "manually" (without a machine's help), they often put the papers in "upside-down" (with the top side facing down and the bottom side facing up) or "backwards" (with the top at the bottom and the bottom at the top), so that the second side is accidentally printed on top of the text or images that were printed for the first side.

Finally, many copiers have "finishing options" for completing large documents. For example, an "automatic stapler" is the part of a machine that "staples" (puts a small piece of metal through many pages and folds the ends back so that the papers are held together). But the papers must be put in correctly, or else the staples will be in the wrong part of the page!