Fotocopiadora is the Spanish and Portuguese word for photocopier, which is why this clip is often searched in both English and Spanish as a printer sound. As office machines became a stock sound effect staple, recordings of scanning, copying and printing were shared across soundboards and editing libraries for use in school, work and bureaucracy scenes. Its appeal is its completeness, one clip covers the whole copy job from start to finish, so creators do not need to layer separate scanner, roller and paper sounds together in post production at all.