Photostat vs Xerography - What's the difference?
photostat | xerography |
(dated) A photocopy, especially one made by a (Photostat machine)
positive (black on white) or negative (white on black) reproduction of printed matter or artwork made on a photostat machine, which uses photographic paper instead of a transparent negative, and uses a prism to render the paper negative readable instead of reversed.
To make such a photocopy.
* 2008 , Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself
a photocopying process in which a negative image formed on an electrically charged plate is transferred as a positive to paper and thermally fixed
As nouns the difference between photostat and xerography
is that photostat is (dated) a photocopy, especially one made by a (photostat machine) 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.As a verb photostat
is to make such a photocopy.photostat
English
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(en noun)Verb
(en-verb)- as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.
