Carbon Copy Cabinet

obsolete office forms, duplicate paper, routing slips, and small print-shop notes

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Most people save letters, photographs, and signed documents. I save the blank form that was meant to hold them.

This cabinet is a small archive of office paper that usually goes into the bin: fax cover sheets, routing slips, memo headers, maintenance pads, incident blanks, and the odd colors of carbonless copy paper. I worked in a small print shop long enough to notice how much thought went into boxes, lines, and spaces that nobody was supposed to admire.

The scans are generic office samples and unused forms. I do not post private records, customer names, or proprietary letterhead. The point is the structure of the paper: how much room a clerk had for a date, where the received stamp landed, whether the pink copy could still be read, and which line disappeared after the third photocopy.

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Generic fax transmission cover sheet with date and page count boxes

Fax cover sheets
Cover pages with page counts, sender boxes, and message fields that rarely fit the message.

Yellow internal routing slip with checkboxes and route lines

Routing slips
Small pieces of paper that tried to tell a folder where to go next.

Generic equipment maintenance checklist with checkboxes and remarks area

Maintenance checklists
Checkboxes, initials, remarks, and three-part pads from back rooms and shop floors.

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