Photocopier vs. Xerox — What's the Difference?

A photocopier (also known as a copier or copy machine, and formerly a Xerox Machine) is a machine that makes copies of documents and other visual images onto paper or plastic film quickly and cheaply. Most modern 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.

Xerox Holdings Corporation (; also known simply as Xerox) is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (having moved from Stamford, Connecticut, in October 2007), though it is incorporated in New York with its largest population of employees based around Rochester, New York, the area in which the company was founded.

A machine for photographically reproducing written, printed, or graphic material, especially by xerography.

A photocopy.

A machine which reproduces documents by photographing the original over a glass plate and printing duplicates.

A photocopier.

A copier that uses photographic methods of making copies

To make a paper copy or copies by means of a photocopier.

A copy made by the xerox process

Duplicator that copies graphic matter by the action of light on an electrically charged photoconductive insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powder

Reproduce by xerography