"autopen" meaning in English

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          "text": "But most offices either use autopens with the boss's name or simply have a staff member sign the boss's name to the correspondence.",
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          "ref": "2021 July 1, Mike Hall, “HOW TO SPOT AUTOPEN AUTOGRAPHS”, in Just Collecting:",
          "text": "An autopen is a machine that copies a person's signature and then reproduces it at a rate many times faster than could normally be done - some top celebrities even have several autopens with slightly altered autographs, making it even more difficult to tell which is the real thing.",
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          "ref": "2025 March 14, Kerry Picket, “Trump wonders about the validity of Biden documents signed with an autopen”, in The Washington Times:",
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