【Static Electricity Facts Known by 45% of the World】 Part 18 -Copy-
Electrostatic Copiers (Electrophotographic Copiers)
Static electricity is used to fix toner onto paper. The Xerox method is a representative example.
Principle:
Xerox method (dry electrophotography). Light is shone on a photoconductor to change the charge distribution, and toner is attracted using static electricity.
Materials:
Selenium or organic photoconductors (OPC) are used for the photosensitive drum. Toner is a mixture of resin and pigment.
The Xerox method is the basic principle of image formation technology widely adopted in modern copiers and laser printers, and is formally called Xerography (electrophotography).
This technology is a dry copying method that uses the power of static electricity and the properties of light to fix toner (powdered ink) onto plain paper.
The name "Xerox method" comes from the American Xerox Corporation, which was the first in the world to commercialize this technology and popularize it in offices. At one time, this method became so synonymous with copying that people would say "to Xerox" something.
It is truly something to be proud of when a company name becomes a globally recognized common noun.
For example, like the "Yagi antenna" for TV antennas or, in games like Street Fighter II, "Umehara" (*).
Will a day come when everyone calls an old guy who shows off his shallow knowledge of quality a "Hin-Oji"!
(*) A term referring to specific techniques or phenomena, derived from professional gamer Daigo Umehara.
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