Did you ever find yourself in school needing a quick photocopy of someone’s notes right before a test but without any money? What about when you want to use the photo-copy machine to make a palm sized copy of your notes for a test *wink*. Well here’s your solution! This article will teach you how to effortlessly print as much copies as you want with almost any machine free of charge!

I tested this on 5 different photo-copy machines that have a coin inserter attached to it, as shown below. Canon, Xerox, Ricoh, Sharp, and Savin.

Step 1- Insert you document(s) into the machine thru the feeder or scanner.
Step 2- Set all you settings. As shown below

Step 3- Once you have everything set up, go to the librarian, friend, or some nerd and ask him to borrow some money but you’ll return it to him within 2 minutes! After you finish the money will come back out of the coin inserter. Insert your coins or bills in the coin inserter attached or built-in.
Step 4- This is the tricky part but once you mastered it, it gets easier. What you need to do is: Once it’s all set up make sure no one is looking, press the green “Start” Button on the machine but almost instantly press the “coin return” button on the inserter. Your money will come back out!
The trick is that when you put your money in the inserter the inserter sends a message to the photo-copy machine saying that there are sufficient funds to make a copy, but if you’ll notice there is a 2 second delay from when you insert the money to when the machine will tell you that you are “ok” to make a copy so buy pressing the coin return button automatically after pressing start the inserter doesn’t know that you made a copy until 2 seconds later.
Good Luck! Don’t use this to steal money from the school or place where you’re doing this. I use this in case I don’t have any money with me. Please let us know if you tried it on any other brands and they work!
About the Author-
I go buy the name of “Blink”. I started a small web design firm witch grew and my company just merged with a big computer consulting company in NYC. I currently reside in Brooklyn where I go to school and I decided to write this article because I don’t believe its ok for schools to charge there students to make photocopies. The students are using it for educational purposes anyways. Why should the student be charged to want to learn? This was my way of “sticking it to the man”
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