Berkeley graduate student Lucy Suchman managed to get one of the copiers installed at her university, and videotaped some people as they walked up to it and had a hard time figuring out how to run off a few copies.
Dry-copying machines, easily operated, are to be found throughout the world in public, university, and school libraries, and while ordinarily only single copies can legally be made solely for the purposes of private study, it is a simple matter, though illegal, to run off a number of copies of long extracts, which then make it unnecessary to buy more than one copy of the book.
Twenty years ago, they had to search slowly through magazines and newspapers for interesting articles, head off to a Xerox machine, and run off a few dozen grainy copies.
In 1979, one of my medical school professors gave us copies of this article -- gray, lopsided sheets run off a primitive copier from an original that my teacher had received from a teacher of his own.
MacFarland ran off several copies on a mimeograph machine, keeping one for himself.
You can also ask your employer, or former employer, to run off another copy for you.
Rader told Clark he had the agenda of a church council meeting and needed to run off copies on a printer.
Even this figure proved inadequate for "Happy Birthday to You!," which was issued in October , 1959 within a few weeks, stocks of the book were exhausted, and fifty thousand additional copies were run off.
Some perpetrators compounded the misdemeanor by running off copies to turn an illicit profit.
The publisher John Murray ran off 1,250 copies and took orders for 1,500 even before the publication day, including 500 for a circulating library.
After developing the photos, they took them to a copy shop to run off color copies.
