Xerography

Xerography is a dry photocopying technique.[1] Originally called electrophotography, it was renamed xerography—from the Greek roots ξηρός xeros, meaning "dry" and -‍γραφία -‍graphia, meaning "writing"—to emphasize that unlike reproduction techniques then in use such as cyanotype, the process of xerography used no liquid chemicals.[2]

  1. ^ Pai, Damodar M.; Melnyk, Andrew R.; Weiss, David S.; Hann, Richard; Crooks, Walter; Pennington, Keith S.; Lee, Francis C.; Jaeger, C. Wayne; Titterington, Don R.; Lutz, Walter; Bräuninger, Arno; De Brabandere, Luc; Claes, Frans; De Keyzer, Rene; Janssens, Wilhelmus; Potts, Rod. "Imaging Technology, 2. Copying and Nonimpact Printing Processes". Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH. pp. 1–53. doi:10.1002/14356007.o13_o08.pub2. ISBN 9783527306732.
  2. ^ "Definition of Xerography". Merriam-Webster.