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Even Thailand's foremost art historian, Piriya Krairiksh, admits that he has trouble distinguishing Yas' reproductions from the 11th century originals. "It's awfully difficult because of his technical excellence, "Piriya explains. "Yas is not a slavish copier. He makes creative copies...
...proudly manufactured nearly everything it sold has been forced to go to outside suppliers. In 1979 IBM began buying microchips from Japan to supplement its own chip production. Last February the company signed an agreement with Japan's Minolta to market one of that company's small copiers under the IBM label. The Minolta model sells for less than $3,500, while IBM's smallest copier costs at least...
Many Did Well. Yet for each downbeat performance, there were many companies that did well. Xerox, struggling against stiff competition in the copier field from Eastman Kodak, IBM and Savin, posted a 12% earnings rise, to $91.6 million, about equal to total company revenues 15 years ago. American Telephone & Telegraph, which last year became the first U.S. company to earn more than $1 billion in a single quarter, did it again in the recent quarter. Earnings were $1.09 billion, up 26%. Polaroid, expected to introduce its long-awaited instant movie camera at its annual meeting this week, earned $14 million...
...Justice Department has urged Xerox, whose 6500 copier is the principal accomplice of the pushbutton counterfeiters, to find a way to make their machines less perfect as partners in crime. But the company is hesitant. "After all," says a spokesman, "you don't hold GM responsible just because a Chevrolet is used as the getaway car in a bank robbery...
...buying them. Some employers, among them Levi Strauss, use the system primarily to monitor depart-ment-by-department copying costs, but Leopold sees it mainly as a money saver. Says he: "Companies don't leave the petty-cash box sitting in the lobby, but each time the copier is used, it takes another nickel off the bottom line." Then again, bosses eager to save those nickels may have to reflect that many employees would accept controls on copiers about as eagerly as they would meters on the water fountain...