Question

Difference between hard and soft copy in writer widow

Answer 1

the text which is written in computer is called soft copy .. and the printed text is called hard copy.

Answer 2

Soft copy documents have the advantage of portability and ease of manipulation over hard copy documents. Because they are stored in a digital medium, soft copies are easily duplicated and/or transferred between users over distances through file transfer/downloading mechanisms such as FTP or HTTP, as an email attachment, or through USB drives and other disk drives. As digital documents, they can be backed up by a variety of means to protect against the eventualities of document deletion or medium destruction. Additionally, multiple copies of the same document can be kept in different versions, allowing a user backtrack to an earlier version.

Using soft copies of working documents rather than traditional printed documents eliminates the need for paper and ink. As documents scale, soft copies also offer an advantage in size, as many thousands of soft copy pages can be stored on a single portable storage medium. Were these pages printed, they would be considerably more bulky than modern digital storage media.

Unlike hard copies, in which ink permanently dyes the media on which it is applied to (or is permanently adhered in the case of toner), soft copies are stored in a mutable digital medium, and so can be easily edited or changed under most normal circumstances.