xerographic copier
Noun: A xerographic copier is a type of duplicating machine, commonly known by the trademark Xerox, that creates copies of documents or images. It operates using a specific electrophotographic process: it uses light to form an electrical charge pattern (a latent image) on a light-sensitive surface. This invisible image is then made visible by attracting and fusing a fine, resin-based powder (toner) onto paper.
The term xerographic copier is a formal, technical name for the device. It is used in technical manuals, academic discussions of printing technology, or to specify the exact copying process being used. * Every office in the building is equipped with a xerographic copier for document reproduction. * The invention of the xerographic copier revolutionized modern office work. * This model differs from an inkjet printer because it is a xerographic copier.
- The term is often used to distinguish the technology from other copying methods, such as photographic, mimeograph, or digital inkjet processes.
- In technical specifications, you might see: "The device is a high-speed xerographic copier with automatic document feeding."
- Copier (noun): A more general term for any machine that makes copies. A xerographic copier is a specific type of copier.
- Photocopier (noun): A very common synonym. While all xerographic copiers are photocopiers, the term "photocopier" can sometimes refer more broadly to any device that uses light to copy.
- Xerography (noun): The name of the underlying electrophotographic process itself.
- Duplicator (noun): A formal term for a machine that makes multiple copies.
- Photocopier
- Copy machine
- Duplicator (in a technical context)
- Original: The document being copied, not the machine.
- Manual transcription: The act of copying by hand, which is the conceptual opposite of mechanical copying.
- Make a xerographic copy: To use a xerographic copier to produce a duplicate.
- Please make a xerographic copy of this contract for our records.
- Xerographic process: Refers to the specific method of copying, not the machine itself.
- The quality of the print depends on the efficiency of the xerographic process.
- a duplicator (trade mark Xerox) that copies graphic matter by the action of light on an electrically charged photoconductive insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powder