Police officer enthralled by famous writer's version that's printed (4,4)
I believe the answer is:
hard copy
'version that's printed' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'police officer enthralled by famous writer's' is the wordplay.
'police officer' becomes 'cop' (cop is a kind of police officer).
'enthralled by' is an insertion indicator ('enthral' can mean 'capture').
'famous writer' becomes 'hardy' (Thomas Hardy. I am not sure about the 'famous' bit.).
'cop' put inside 'hardy' is 'HARD COPY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hard copy that I've seen before include "Printout" , "Text that is typed or printed on paper" , "Computer files printed out on paper" , "Computerised data that's been printed out" , "Computer output printed on paper" .)