Before the mid-1950s, the company now known as the Xerox Corporation was called the Haloid Company.
There has never been anyone whose last name was "Xerox." Xerox is a made up word and was invented about 1958 for use as a trademark of what is now the Xerox Corporation.
Yes, "Xerox" is a proper noun. It is the short form of the company name, Xerox Corporation, and is part of the company's trade mark.
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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."
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Phaser is a brand name that Xerox uses for its printers. Therefore, you can buy them direct for Xerox or one of their authorized dealers. Xerox offers them through its Xerox direct site and you can also get them at Amazon.
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".
Xerox which at the time was called Haloid Xerox (note: name didn't change to Xerox until 1961)
Xerox is short for the legal name of the company, Xerox Corporation. Xerox is also a registered trademark owned by the Xerox Corporation and use to refer to the products of that company. Xerox is also an adjective used to describe a product of the Xerox Corporation. The word is sometimes incorrectly used as a verb or common noun in place of the correct generic terms "copy" or "photocopy."
Xerox is concerned to prevent its name becoming generic because the name is a valuable asset and part of its trademark. As such, Xerox Corporation has intellectual property rights (ownership) in the name. If it were to become generic, Xerox Corporation would essentially loose control of it and of the market value it represents. People could then use the name in contexts not connected with the company and the company would be unable to prevent or object to that use.
Xerox is a company best known for its photocopying technology. As a verb, it is often used informally to mean making a photocopy of a document, but technically it refers to the act of copying using a Xerox machine.
Xerography is the name of the process that was invented in 1938 by Chester Carlson and developed by the Haloid Company into the first fully automatic plain paper copier, the Xerox 914, in 1959. Xerography is a modern word developed from two Greek roots meaning "dry writing."Shortly after releasing the Xerox 914, The Haloid Company began a transition to a new name, Xerox Corporation. The name Xerox was taken from the term Xerography, and shortened using the model of the name of Kodak, the other large technology company in Rochester, NY, at the time