A longtime copier company, Xerox played to their strengths.

He was instrumental in turning a $7 million company of the 1930s into Xerox, a billion-dollar copier company.

Xerox, the copier company, says earnings for the second half will fall short.

Savin, the copier company, just added the sensor to all of the systems it ships from Japan.

Other copier companies also started development of similar systems.

"Xerox is identified as a copier company, and that makes it pretty hard for them to migrate to a different market," he said.

Over the years, the promises to become more than a copier company have seemed as repetitive as, well, Xerox copies.

Xerox, the diversified copier company, fell 1 1/4, to 51, after reporting a deficit in the first quarter.

This led to a job as a dispatcher for a copier company, but she was laid off four months later when the company downsized.

Not surprisingly, copier companies are scrambling to find new outlets.