Have you ever heard of "soft copy" meaning digital copy?

I use "hard copy" all the time but I usually just hear and say "digital copy". I got into an online thing about this.

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V00doo

Hard copy has always meant a physical thing or end product.

DDonde · 31-35, M

@V00doo Right, and I use hard copy like everybody else but I never use or really have heard the term 'soft copy'. I was in an English Language learning forum and a bunch of people agreed but also many people disagreed with me saying they'd heard the term frequently.

V00doo

@DDonde What was their profession? A soft copy would be a pre edit draft, no?

DDonde · 31-35, M

@V00doo A few of them were foreign-language speakers but some of them were native speakers. At least one said they were an engineer. Some of them said that "soft copy" meant a digital copy.