duplicating machine

American  

noun

1. a duplicator, especially one for making identical copies of documents, letters, etc.

2. profiler.

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Etymology

Origin of duplicating machine

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Steinem remembers the days in which hand-outs and calls to action were made on a primitive duplicating machine called a mimeograph.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2023

Indignation is not the only element in this series, which takes its style from Russian constructivism and its two-color scheme from the Risograph, a Japanese duplicating machine.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022

Back then, decades before the invention of home computers, Mr Watson produced newsletters called "Vegan News", laboriously running pages through a duplicating machine by hand and stapling them together.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2017

In one scene a member of their group acquires a duplicating machine to help with printing leaflets.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2011

Day and night, they printed thousands of new, even bolder, leaflets on a hand-cranked duplicating machine, possibly purchased with the money Sophie asked to borrow from Fritz.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti