Xerographers

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A group of individuals or machines that produce copies of documents using a specific dry photocopying technology
2. People who work with or are involved in the process of xerography, creating reproductions of printed material
3. Referring to practitioners or operators of equipment used to replicate paper forms through a non-liquid printing method

Etymology: "Xerographers" is the plural of "xerographer," which denotes a person who operates a photocopying machine. The base word "xerographer" is built from "xerography," the name of the dry photocopying process invented by Chester Carlson, whose work was commercialized in the 1950s. The process takes its name from Greek roots: "xeros," meaning "dry," and "-graphia," meaning "writing" or "drawing," so the word literally describes writing or drawing done without ink or liquid. The agent suffix "-er" attached to "xerography" gives the word its sense of a person who works the machine.

Synonyms: photocopiers