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Xerox
This category covers questions on the Xerox Corporation, a global document management company that manufactures and sells a variety of color and black-and-white printers, photo copiers, and printer paper, etc.
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What does the the Xerox Corporation do?
Xerox Corporation is most widely known as a manufacturer and marketer of xerographic printers and copiers. However, the Corporation has a much wider range of activity.
Xerox also provides document technology, services, software and branded Xerox supplies for graphic communication and office printing environments of any size. Through ACS, A Xerox Company, which Xerox acquired in February 2010, Xerox also offers extensive business process outsourcing and IT outsourcing services, including data processing, HR benefits management, finance support, and customer relationship management services for commercial and government organizations worldwide
Where I can find a Xerox 914 copier or even a shell of one for use in a movie?
Try contacting the Xerox Corporation in Norwalk, CT, or the Xerox Historical Archive at 800 Phillips Road, Webster, NY 14580.
What was developed at Xerox PARC?
The Graphic User Interface (GUI), the computer mouse and the Ethernet are among the items developed at Xerox PARC. They are now part of most operating systems.
In the strictest sense, a Xerox machine is a machine that is manufactured or sold by the Xerox Corporation or one of its affiliates, such as Fuji Xerox. The word "Xerox" is a registered trade mark and in that sense can only be used in connection with products of the Xerox Corporation.
In common usage, the term "Xerox machine" is used by many to mean any machine that makes a photocopy using the xerographic process that involves dry ink, electrostatic charges, a light-sensitive photoreceptor surface, and heat or pressure fusing of the dry ink to the paper.
The photocopy manufacturing industry tries to minimize this use, however, for two reasons. Xerox Corporation wants to maintain control of its trade mark and prevent it going the way of the term "hoover" in the UK or "aspirin" in the US. Most of its competitors would prefer that their products not be associated in the public language with the name of a competing manufacturer.
"Xerox Dallas" is most likely a reference one of several offices of Xerox Corporation in Dallas, Texas or the surrounding area. Among other operations, Dallas is headquarters to that portion of Xerox Corporation that was once Affiliated Computers Services (ACS).
When Xerox originated depends on what you mean by "Xerox."
The company that is now called Xerox Corporation was formed as the Haloid Company in 1906. It changed its name to Xerox Corporation around 1958.
The process of xerography, the making of a photocopy with dry ink, was first demonstrated in 1938. The first machine using xerography was marketed about 1954 and the first fully automated xerographic copy machine was released in 1959.
Any one of these dates could be "when Xerox originated" to some people.
