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Cerography vs Xerography - What's the difference?

cerography | xerography |

As nouns the difference between cerography and xerography

is that cerography is the art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax while xerography is a photocopying process in which a negative image formed on an electrically charged plate is transferred as a positive to paper and thermally fixed.

cerography

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
  • A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.
    • (Webster 1913)

    xerography

    English

    (wikipedia xerography)

    Noun

    (-)
  • a photocopying process in which a negative image formed on an electrically charged plate is transferred as a positive to paper and thermally fixed