Did you know that in 1962 Commodore Business Machines had a division called "Commodore Drycopy Inc"?

In 1962, Commodore Business Machines expanded into the field of copying machines by establishing two new subsidiaries: Commodore Drycopy, Inc. in New York and Commodore Drycopy, Ltd. in Toronto.

They chose to enter the thermographic copying market after studying the three major copying technologies available at the time: diffusion transfer, electrostatic, and thermographic.

The thermographic approach was selected because it was less competitive than diffusion transfer, which already had over 100 manufacturers, and less expensive than the electrostatic method for their target market of small to medium-sized businesses.

Commodore saw an additional revenue opportunity in the recurring sales of special thermal-sensitive transfer sheets required by these machines.

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