Feb 15
best_little_bookworm asked:
I recently went to work for a law firm and saw on the letterhead the “telecopier” number. No fax number was lsited, and as far as I can tell their tele-copier IS a fax machine. Walks like one and talks like one, etc. Being a Word **** I immediately set about inquiring as to the difference between the two, but alas, no one there can tell me. I thought maybe tele-copier was either a legal-speak or an “old world” term for facsimile machine i.e. fax, but on another law firms’ letterhead where their two offices were listed, one had a telecopier number and the other a fax.
I recently went to work for a law firm and saw on the letterhead the “telecopier” number. No fax number was lsited, and as far as I can tell their tele-copier IS a fax machine. Walks like one and talks like one, etc. Being a Word **** I immediately set about inquiring as to the difference between the two, but alas, no one there can tell me. I thought maybe tele-copier was either a legal-speak or an “old world” term for facsimile machine i.e. fax, but on another law firms’ letterhead where their two offices were listed, one had a telecopier number and the other a fax.
February 15th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
in the final analysis, probably no difference. I would guess the term hinges on the machine’s intended use. If it was basically designed as a photocopier, or intended to be mostly used for that purpose, but it also has fax capabilities, then the manufacturer or your work place might call it a tele-copier. You could similarly call a fax machine a fax-duplicator, for instance, since while primarily intended to be used as a fax machine, it can also produce duplicates (copies).