copiers have hard drives?

[edong]

Didn't realize that. I know there's memory for the fax you send and receive but only fax numbers, number of pages and date. And that's about it.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/22352

[Xylob the Destroyer]

yeah, we got a couple HP all-in-ones at work about 4 years ago and part of the hard-drives stick out of the back.
the all-in-ones also use them to store HUGE documents that you send to them via the network as print-jobs.

[rallynavvie]

Most bigger copiers have hard drives as well. If you want to make collated copies of multiple pages without having to scan the entire document for each copy (like old analog copiers did) it essentially scans the entire document to hard drive and then prints out the collated sets. Network printers usually use RAM for buffering network print jobs rather than a regular hard drive. If you're consistently sending documents too large for the machine's onboard memory than often there are external RIP servers that store and feed the digital file to the printer.