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xerography

xerography

9.5
A dry way to make paper copies using light and powder
  • noun
  • /zɪəˈrɑːɡrəfi/
  • Specialized
translation icon : xerografía
  • Unauthorized reproduction of this newsletter or its contents by xerography, facsimile.

Examples

  • In many offices, documents are often duplicated using xerography for efficiency and clarity.

  • It features how-to advice on screenprinting, scanning, xerography, and offset printing by Jordan Crane, Brian Ralph, David Choe, and Ron Rege, Jr.

    Blog text (5)
  • Or xerography?

    Fiction book (1998)
  • These categories and some of the typical ways they are implemented are as follows: Electrostatic: xerography, ionography, and electrography.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The use of organic semiconductors in xerography gave that field a particular boost during the 1980s (see the article by Joseph Mort in PHYSICS TODAY, April 1994, page 32).

    Academic text (2006)
  • 2, 3 that entail the contact transfer of a pattern: relief, intaglio, lithography, screen, and electrophotography (xerography).

    Academic text (2001)
  • As the means for reproducing the texts of books have proliferated, from photostat and microfilm to xerography and electronic scanning, along with the technology for sending written, printed, and electronic texts from one location to another via telephone lines, library schools have increasingly paid attention to what is now called "information science."

    Academic text (1992)
  • The artist used xerography to create stunning reproductions of her original prints.

  • The new publishing method relies on xerography to produce high-quality images without the mess of traditional printing.

Synonyms

electrophotography
vsxerography
  • Specialized
1 8.7

A printing process that uses static electricity to make images on paper

is the specific dry photocopying method using light and powder on a charged plate

Surface Forms

xerography singular
xerographies plural

Morphology

xerography = xero + graphy

The word is built from the classical combining form 'xero' and the suffix '-graphy', so its 'dry writing/recording' structure is partly visible, but the modern photocopying sense is specialized.

Etymology

The word xerography comes from Greek parts xero- meaning 'dry' and -graphy meaning 'writing' or 'drawing', the same -graphy you see in photography. So xerography literally means 'dry writing', which helps you remember it is a way to make copies without liquid chemicals.