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what is a carbon copy the term carbon copy refers to an outdated method of producing an instant copy of a typed or handwritten document by placing a sheen of carbonized paper between two documents whatever was typed or written on the top sheet transferred to the bottom sheet by virtue of the waxy carbon between them being impressed upon the underlying paper a carbon copy was the easiest way to make a duplicate contract application sales receipt or other note however it had its drawbacks carbon paper was messy in making more than one copy meant putting additional carbon sheets between subsequent sheets of paper additionally after the carbon sheet was used once it was generally thrown out resulting in a lot of waste rae using carbon paper could result in poor copies another drawback of the carbon copy was that the carbon sheet itself became a duplicate of the transferred material in Reverse when looking at the sheet carbon side up by holding the sheet to the light and reading through the back the transfer could easily be read this was especially problematic for governmental bodies dealing with sensitive information but also became an issue when credit cards were used at point-of-sale transactions numbers and signatures were so often stolen that it became habit for customers to ask for the Carbon sheet back electronic credit card swap machines eventually took the place of hardcopy receipts eliminating the need for carbon copies at point of sale today a Carbon Copy is rarely used copy machines once expensive have become affordable in ubiquitous built into the smallest office machines in those cases where a carbon copy might still be handy such as for repair men in the field carbonless copy paper made by chemical processes provide copies without intervening carbonized sheets one example can be seen in personal checkbooks that create a carbon copy without carbon paper perhaps oddly the enduring legacy of the Carbon Copy is its initials CC these are still used at the end of correspondence to indicate when copies are filed or forwarded to other parties in email headers the CC field is used to enter a second addressee in order to send him or her carbon copy of the original email