> The first time he had to copy something in the office didn’t exactly go well. “It kept coming out as a blank page, and took me a couple times to realize that I had to place the paper upside-down in the machine for it to work.”
I had never thought about it until now, but from a UX perspective would a copier be better if you could scan face-up instead of face-down? Regardless, I can imagine the disappointment of not being able to scan a butt.
>I had never thought about it until now, but from a UX perspective would a copier be better if you could scan face-up instead of face-down?
You can. Any decent office printer does exactly this: you put a stack of papers in the auto document feeder and press a button and it scans all of them, double-sided if you want. Even simple photocopiers were doing this back in the 80s and 90s.
On other hand. It should be reasonable to figure out, if one were to stop and think about how it must work.
You have this transparent glass on one side and then opaque white on other... Per usual understanding you can see through other and can't through other.
I had never thought about it until now, but from a UX perspective would a copier be better if you could scan face-up instead of face-down? Regardless, I can imagine the disappointment of not being able to scan a butt.