A tray that makes you want to place the back of copy paper from all over Japan

“What? You have an office in a place like that? I’d love to visit.”

That was the first time I met Mr. Miyake of Company Y, the creator of that tool.

About five years ago.
I had started working in Umeda, the center of Osaka, and after searching for a place to live that would help ease my stress, I ended up at a property near Utsubo Park.

Utsubo Park, which has tennis courts where even Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka practiced as a child, is an urban oasis overflowing with greenery.

There was a stylish building standing across from that property.
At the time, I thought that surely stylish and high-sense people must work there, and that it had nothing to do with me.
When I heard that Mr. Miyake’s office was there, I brought a souvenir and went to visit.

What awaited me there were products that had been “stripped down” of their unnecessary parts to an almost excessive degree.
If you’re not careful, they’ve stripped away not just the meat, but even the bone as well.
The brand name is “SOGU”
(which means to strip away). Thinking that the name truly represents the substance, I decided to carry them in my shop.

Among them, the one I was captivated by was the “A4 Paper Tray”

It is the “tool for beautifully placing copy paper” that I am introducing today, which Docket Store is pushing with all its might.

Decades have passed since the birth of the printer, a convenient tool of civilization.
Being able to print materials easily has greatly increased the speed of human work.

On the other hand, humanity has come to face a new problem.

Yes.
The problem where the copy paper that didn’t fit into the copier is left in a mess on the shelf is it.

That’s not all.
The problem where you want to reuse the back of the paper, but it also ends up in a mess on the shelf is also tormenting humanity at the same time.

Such a trivial problem. You might even say it’s not a problem at all.

You might think so.

But this problem, it bothers those who are bothered by it.

Since there’s no place to put the back-side paper, we set it in the copier tray for printing on the back, but the “clack” sound when pulling out or closing that copier tray is grating on the ears.
The frustration and finger-pointing when it wasn’t closed perfectly and an error occurred during printing also happen.

Small frustrations accumulate.
No one ends up smiling.

I think whether or not you can spend your time comfortably in an office is probably built on the accumulation of things like that.
Like whether you properly throw away the trash before going home...
Small misunderstandings make the office atmosphere bad.

The solution to that problem is the SOGU Paper Tray.

The structure is simple.

By creating edges only on two corners, it makes it easy to pick up copy paper or scrap paper.

Currently, sizes that can hold about 100 sheets of A4 and A5 paper are available.

There are plans to release A3 sizes and high-capacity types in the future.

Mr. Miyake, the creator, mentioned that he releases the SOGU series as products he wants to see in designers' offices.
Mr. Miyake himself also uses copy paper as a handy creative tool for rough sketches and the like.

You can place the beauty of copy paper just as it is when taken out of its outer packaging onto your desk and maintain it.

And the fact that you can use it like memo paper is nothing short of amazing.

It can transform even scrap paper, which might otherwise feel a bit shabby despite being environmentally friendly, into a neat stack of paper.

This is nothing short of a revolution.

Yes. It is truly a work-style reform.

It might sound like an exaggeration, but I think tools that anyone can use to achieve the same effect are wonderful. And there is hardly any workplace that doesn't have A4 copy paper.

If changing the copy paper turns 1% of frustration into comfort, and that is repeated every day, I think there is nothing more wonderful than that.

That impact is not just in Japan, but an impact that could happen all over the world where A4 copy paper is used.

If you are interested, please give it a try.