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xerography|zɪə-, zəˈrɒgrəfɪ|
[f. xero- + -graphy, after photography.]
A dry copying process in which an electrically charged surface retains both the charge and a pigmented powder on areas not illuminated by light from bright parts of the document, so that a permanent copy may be immediately obtained by placing paper on the surface and applying heat to fuse the powder to it; photocopying.
1948N.Y. Times 23 Oct. 17/8 A revolutionary process of inkless printing..was announced yesterday... Invented by Chester F. Carlson, a New York lawyer, and known as ‘Xerography’, this basic addition to the graphic arts reproduces pictures and text at a speed of 1,200 a minute. 1957Technology July 164/2 A new copying process, Xerography, attracted constant attention. 1962Daily Tel. 30 Oct. 20 (Advt.), Xerography is capturing a growing share of a market in office copying. 1967McLuhan & Fiore Medium is Massage 123 Xerography..heralds the times of instant publishing. 1970A. Toffler Future Shock (1971) xii. 280 Advances in offset printing and xerography have radically lowered the costs of short-run publishing. 1976Globe & Mail (Toronto) 1 Nov. 17/4 Asked whether xerography might become the next big movement in art, Bidner insisted on caution.
Hence xeroˈgraphic a., xeroˈgraphically adv.
1948N.Y. Times 23 Oct. 17/8 Even an unskilled person can make good Xerographic prints easily. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Dec. 712/3 The enormous possibilities of applying the xerographic process to microfilms of books. 1968U.S. Patent 3,413,716 1 A xerographically formed pattern of chemical resist is placed on the conductive material. 1976Nature 22 Jan. 204/2 We sampled the air in an unventilated room..housing a xerographic machine. 1979Lore & Lang. Jan. 14 This recitation has been printed many times and is common in the xerographically transmitted broadsheets. 1982Trans. Yorks. Dialect Soc. LXXXII. 49 (Advt.), Available in microform and xerographic form. |