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Xerography

<p><b>Xerography</b> is a dry <a href="/en/Photocopier" title="Photocopier" class="wl">photocopying</a> technique.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> Originally called electrophotography, it was renamed xerography—from the <small about="#mwt22" typeof="mw:Transclusion" data-mw="{&quot;parts&quot;:[{&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;target&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;IPA-el&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;./Template:IPA-el&quot;},&quot;params&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;n&quot;},&quot;2&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;lang&quot;}},&quot;i&quot;:0}}]}">Greek:<span>&nbsp;</span></small><span class="IPA"><a href="/en/Help:IPA/Greek" title="Help:IPA/Greek" class="wl">[n]</a></span> <a href="/en/Root_(linguistics)" title="Root (linguistics)" class="wl">roots</a> <span><span><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ξηρός" title="wikt:ξηρός" class="extiw" target="_blank">ξηρός</a></span></span> <i>xeros</i>, meaning "dry" and <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-γραφία" title="wikt:-γραφία" class="extiw" target="_blank">-γραφία</a> <i>-graphia</i>, meaning "writing"—to emphasize that unlike reproduction techniques then in use such as <a href="/en/Cyanotype" title="Cyanotype" class="wl">cyanotype</a>, the process of xerography used no liquid <a href="/en/Chemical" title="Chemical" class="mw-redirect wl">chemicals</a>.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="#cite_note-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span></p>

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the</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle"><a href="/en/History_of_printing" title="History of printing" class="wl">History of printing</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span class="mw-default-size"><a href="/en/File:Chodowiecki_Basedow_Tafel_21_c_Z.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Chodowiecki_Basedow_Tafel_21_c_Z.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Chodowiecki_Basedow_Tafel_21_c_Z.jpg/220px-Chodowiecki_Basedow_Tafel_21_c_Z.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="1263" data-file-height="955" data-file-type="bitmap" height="166" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Chodowiecki_Basedow_Tafel_21_c_Z.jpg/330px-Chodowiecki_Basedow_Tafel_21_c_Z.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Chodowiecki_Basedow_Tafel_21_c_Z.jpg/440px-Chodowiecki_Basedow_Tafel_21_c_Z.jpg 2x" 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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title">Techniques</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table class="infobox" style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Woodblock_printing" title="Woodblock printing" class="wl">Woodblock printing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">200</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Movable_type" title="Movable type" class="wl">Movable type</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1040</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Intaglio_(printmaking)" title="Intaglio (printmaking)" class="wl">Intaglio (printmaking)</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1430</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Printing_press" title="Printing press" class="wl">Printing press</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;"><abbr>c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><span> </span>1440</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Etching" title="Etching" class="wl">Etching</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;"><span>c.</span><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><span> </span>1515</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Mezzotint" title="Mezzotint" class="wl">Mezzotint</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1642</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Relief_printing" title="Relief printing" class="wl">Relief printing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1690</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Aquatint" title="Aquatint" class="wl">Aquatint</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1772</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Lithography" title="Lithography" class="wl">Lithography</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1796</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Chromolithography" title="Chromolithography" class="wl">Chromolithography</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1837</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Rotary_printing_press" title="Rotary printing press" class="wl">Rotary press</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1843</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Hectograph" title="Hectograph" class="wl">Hectograph</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1860</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Offset_printing" title="Offset printing" class="wl">Offset printing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1875</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Hot_metal_typesetting" title="Hot metal typesetting" class="wl">Hot metal typesetting</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1884</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Mimeograph" title="Mimeograph" class="wl">Mimeograph</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1885</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Daisy_wheel_printing" title="Daisy wheel printing" class="wl">Daisy wheel printing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1889</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Photostat_machine" title="Photostat machine" class="wl">Photostat and rectigraph</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1907</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Screen_printing" title="Screen printing" class="wl">Screen printing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1911</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Spirit_duplicator" title="Spirit duplicator" class="wl">Spirit duplicator</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1923</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Dot_matrix_printing" title="Dot matrix printing" class="wl">Dot matrix printing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1925</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Xerography" title="Xerography" class="wl">Xerography</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1938</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Spark_printing" title="Spark printing" class="wl">Spark printing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1940</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Phototypesetting" title="Phototypesetting" class="wl">Phototypesetting</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1949</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Inkjet_printing" title="Inkjet printing" class="wl">Inkjet printing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1950</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Dye-sublimation_printing" title="Dye-sublimation printing" class="wl">Dye-sublimation</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1957</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Laser_printing" title="Laser printing" class="wl">Laser printing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1969</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Thermal_printing" title="Thermal printing" class="wl">Thermal printing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;"><span>c.</span><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><span> </span>1972</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Solid_ink" title="Solid ink" class="wl">Solid ink printing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1972</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Thermal-transfer_printing" title="Thermal-transfer printing" class="wl">Thermal-transfer printing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1981</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/3D_printing" title="3D printing" class="wl">3D printing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1986</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;padding-right:01:"><a href="/en/Digital_printing" title="Digital printing" class="wl">Digital printing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;">1991</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td>
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Xerography is a dry photocopying technique. 