Crossword clues for photocopier
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1934, agent noun from photocopy (v.).
Wiktionary
n. A machine which reproduces documents by photographing the original over a glass plate and printing duplicates.
WordNet
n. a copier that uses photographic methods of making copies
Wikipedia
A photocopier (also known as a copier or copy machine) is a machine that makes paper copies of documents and other visual images quickly and cheaply. Most current photocopiers use a technology called xerography, a dry process that uses electrostatic charges on a light-sensitive photoreceptor to first attract and then transfer toner particles (a powder) onto paper in the form of an image. Heat, pressure or a combination of both is then used to fuse the toner onto the paper. (Copiers can also use other technologies such as ink jet, but xerography is standard for office copying.)
Xerographic office photocopying was introduced by Xerox in 1959, and it gradually replaced copies made by Verifax, Photostat, carbon paper, mimeograph machines, and other duplicating machines.
Photocopying is widely used in the business, education, and government sectors. While there have been predictions that photocopiers will eventually become obsolete as information workers increase their use of digital document creation, storage and distribution, and rely less on distributing actual pieces of paper, as of 2015, photocopiers continue to be widely used. In the 2010s, there is a convergence in some high-end machines between the roles of a photocopier, a fax machine, a scanner, and a computer network-connected printer. As of 2015, some high-end machines can copy and print in color.
Usage examples of "photocopier".
Behind the first closed door was a windowless office, almost bare but for a utilitarian desk on which stood a printer and small photocopier, and, against the wall, a self-contained video playback unit and a stack of tapes.
Motherly Faith went round with a duster and Marge set the photocopier humming.
Some modern devices intruded, Minogue noted, but the fax and photocopier seemed devalued by being half-hidden under papers.
To anyone other than me, my lone ranger probably looked like a forty-odd-year-old off-duty photocopier I repairman on his way to play candlepins at the local bowling alley.
They've kept the cameras clicking, kept those faxes humming, swapped that email, run those photocopiers on overtime, licked envelopes and spent small fortunes on airfare and long distance.
Such as the fact that she wasn't allowed to use e-mail, photocopiers, scanners, or even manual typewriters and carbon paper.
Here was the X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, for instance, an anonymous grey box which looked like an industrial-strength photocopier, into which ground-up fragments of his rocks were fed in tiny platinum egg cups.
SJG's Austin headquarters was a modest two-story brick office-suite, cluttered with phones, photocopiers, fax machines and computers.
According to them, while the 'serviceman' was locating the photocopiers, he made idle conversation, asking the various staff members if they knew a 'friend' of his he thought 'used to work there,' a tall, striking red-haired woman named Barber.