Xerox Logo — Xerox Corporation is the world’s largest supplier of photocopiers of toner (dry ink) and accessories. Its headquarters are in Stamford , Connecticut , although most of the company is located near Rochester , New York , where it was founded. So identifies with his product that the term “xerox” is often used to refer to photocopiers also from other brands, and English is used as a verb to mean “making photocopies”.
Originally called Haloid and beginning as a manufacturer of paper and photographic equipment, the company became known in 1959 with the introduction of the first photocopier in one piece using the method of xerography , the Xerox 914 . Just the name “Xerox”, determined by its inventor Chester Carlson , differentiated market their technology copied in ” dry “(χερός in Greek). By then the copied ” wet “was the most widely used in industry. More