You lay a page or photo on a copier - it copies and prints whatever you put on it. You lay a page or photo on a scanner - it copies the item and sends it to your computer. You can use software to make it look better or resize the image. When you are ready to print it, you send it to your printer. A scanner doesn't print.
A scanner is a device that is used to create an electronic file that represents whatever image may be placed in fron of the scanning element. It attaches to a computer for storage or manipulation, to a telephone line to send the file as a FAX, or to a printer to print the file as a cop. A Xerox machine is one brand of copier. Other brands include Canon, Sharp, Tosiba, Samsung, etc. Modern copiers are built of two machines, a scanner to collect the image, and a printer to print the file thus created. So a scanner can be a part of a Xerox Machine or can be a stand-alone machine.
A Xerox machine is any machine marketed by the Xerox Corporation or its affiliate, FujiXerox, Incorporated. These machines perform a wide variety of functions, including copying, printing, scanning, binding, projecting, etc.
The term "Xerox Machine" is sometimes incorrectly used to mean a machine that makes copies, i.e a photocopy machine. Photocopy machines scan an original of some sort and create a duplicate of that image, usually on a piece of paper.
A printer takes input from a computer and creates an image on paper, oven using the same technology to make that image as is used by a copier to make that duplicate image.
The word photocopy describes the process of using a machine to make an image or copy of an original page or object.
The word Xerox is at registered trademark and is also short for "Xerox Corporation," the name of a company. Many people incorrectly use "Xerox" to mean a copy, but the company, Xerox, actively discourages that use, which if not opposed would result in the word becoming a common noun and loss to Xerox Corporation of its valuable trademark.
Even competitors of Xerox Corporation oppose the use of that word to mean "copy," as it detracts from their own marketing efforts.
Xerox is the name of the company, Xerox Corporation, and may also be used to reference a machine made by that company. It is a noun, not a verb and is a registered trademark owned by Xerox Corporation. The word Xerox is sometimes incorrectly used instead of the correct terms, "copy" or "photocopy."
The difference between a copier and a laser printer can be little or nothing these days. A copier scans an image and puts that image on a piece of paper. All copiers used to process each image directly, and each copy required a separate scan of the original.
Now, the scanned image is processed electronically and handed off to a print engine to make as many copies from the single scan as are desired. This is called a digital copier and virtually all copiers on the market today are digital copiers.
So basically a laser printer is the printing half of a digital copier. It receives a signal from a computer and converts it to an image on paper.
One scans and one prints. The scanner prints and the printer scans. Its confusing, but its correct.
The term "Xerox copy" is often incorrectly used to mean the same thing as "photocopy." But "Xerox" is a proper noun and a trademark for the Xerox Corporation so "Xerox copy" actually means a copy made on a copier that carries the Xerox brand. The word "photocopy" means any copy that has been made using a photographic process and includes copies made on Xerox machines, and other copiers.
Xerox is the company's name. The word Xerox is sometimes misused instead of the word photocopy. If you want to know Hindi word for photocopy then it's "pratilipi".
A "Xerox copy" is a photocopy that has been created using a copy machine that was marketed by the Xerox Corporation.
No, it is not legal to photocopy paper money.
Since the word "Xerox" is a trademark, the preferred term is "photocopy," or simply "copy."
To say what an English word means in another language, you must first understand what the word means in English.The word "Xerox" has meanings that would translate differently into Hindi, and some of those meaning are incorrect usages of the word.When someone says "a Xerox" they could mean:a photocopya Xerox machine - a product sold by the Xerox Corporationto make a copyThere is no Hindi word for 'xerox.' Xerox is the name of a company which is world leader in photocopier machines and business services. Their photocopiers are so famous that 'xerox' and 'photocopy' is often but incorrectly used interchangeably.A Hindi speaker would speak the word "Xerox" as if phonetically spelled ZÄ«raksÄ, according to Google translate. The word 'photocopy' is also transferred whole to Hindi, and pronounced essentially as in English.The word "photocopy" is sometimes translated to Hindi as "pratilipi".
Xerox does not mean photo copy, although some people use it as if it did mean that. "Xerox is a short form of the name of the company, Xerox Corporation, and a registered trademark owned by that company. Photocopy is a noun and means a copy of an original made through the use of a photographic process. The word photocopy can also be a verb meaning to make such a copy. Xerox Corporation is widely known as the company that introduced the first highly successful machines that made photocopies using dry ink and plain paper.
All photocopy machines use electrical energy.
The word "xerox" is a proper noun and a trademark. Xerox is short for the company name, Xerox Corporation, and can also used to refer to a machine made by Xerox Corporation or the product of such a machine. It is incorrect to use Xerox as a verb or as a generic term. The proper generic terms are "copy" and "photocopy."
Photocopy machines, whether made by Xerox or other companies, do not cause infertility.
* duplicate * xerox Note: The company Xerox object to the use of this trademark as a generic term, but it is commonly used so in North America.
The phrase "you are about to delivered of a baby xerox machine" is someone's cute way of announcing that a photocopy machine will be delivered soon.