What is the difference between xerox and photocopy?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

One scans and one prints. The scanner prints and the printer scans. Its confusing, but its correct.