Xerox - 200 Copies and 25 paise

Yesterday I visited my friends place to greet him on his B’day. The road seemed pretty familiar to me. And why not, it was a place where we used to spend our precious PL (preparation leave) hours to get the notes Xeroxed.

It used to be high time in November-December and again in April-May when our engineering exams approached. Gathering notes from friends, getting it Xeroxed and then starting the actual study was the typical scenario those days. The auto-riksha walas had a queue running parallel to those Bhagwan saman Xerox walas. There were and still are many Xerox shops lying adjacent to the each other, each running atleast 16 hours a day if not 18 hours. No wonder that the wait period while getting the job done used to check one’s patience.

The campaign and offers, which are a part of marketing business processes - that we study and implement today in our professional life, had a different form then and to our surprise they still exist with the statistics changed. A typical example of the offer was – 25 paise per copy provided you order for minimum 200 copies.

I really cherish these memories of the past. Today the experience of Print and Xerox in the Office eclipse those Xerox experiences. But then it’s unforgettable that these free and easily accessible sophisticated services, available at the click of a button, are available to us only because of the gyaan the Xerox sheets provided in our study phase.

I eagerly looked into the Xerox shops as I passed by and said – long live the Xerox community!