Talk:Xerography
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[edit] Xerography - Genericized trademark?
Is this really a generic term for the printing process, or a term that Xerox invented for the process? It seems very likely that the name for this has really always been electrophotography and that is really the correct name for this article.
I suspect that Xerography was at one time a trademarked term of the Xerox company for this printing process that eventually became genericized, like Escalator. DMahalko 21:47, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
- "Xerography" was indeed a term invented by the Haloid Company, later known as Xerox Corporation, but it was never a trademark term. It was invented to be the "scientific" or engineering term to describe the printing process. The trademark term has always been "Xerox"
- Electrophotography" was an earlier name, invented by Chester Carlson, to describe his process. It fell out of use as the process was refined by Haloid into a commercially viable printing process. Pzavon 01:27, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] How to deal with so many explanations of the same thing?
The xerography, the photocopying article, and the laser printer article all attempt to describe the same processes three different ways. It would be nice if the technical details could be focused somehow into a single article that all the others refer to, rather than duplicating the same data across so many locations, such as is being done with the LED printer article.
I'm not really sure how this should be done. Generally I think the xerography artcle should be the master discussion of the technical processes, with the laser printer article just referring to the specific details of the exposure step, as is currently being done with the LED printer article. I have no idea how to deal with the photocopying article since it seems to be an almost unnecessary duplication of the xerography article.
As a somewhat new editor on here, I don't really be the one to be making such large changes, moving the guts of the laser printer technical discussion to the xerography article. But something should be done..
(This talk article has been copied into the talk for xerography, photocopying, laser printer, and LED printer. If you want to comment I suggest putting your response in the talk for xerography.)
DMahalko 00:16, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
