Another example of a good idea, implemented by complete sadists. Surely it would be easier if each button just actually SAID what it was for. And the thing about the photocopier is that everyone barely knows how to use it, because whoever originally took delivery of the photocopier lost the manual in a desk drawer somewhere. Without first making a copy of it. The bigger the photocopier, the more things seem to go wrong with it.
Photocopiers have a lot in common with laser printers.
Quite apart from the similar technology, it's the paper jamming and demands for more toner are dead give-aways. And the way that people always seem to be queuing around them both. It's probably so management can instantly spot which minions have brought in personal stereos to run off the company's electricity while pretending to work. What someone needs to do is make personal stereos that are beige. Oh, an audio monitoring refractor unit.