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Digging Through A Copier's Guts

Most of us probably use copiers on a pretty regular basis, but how many of us actually know how they work? Turns out the science is fairly simple, but the engineering certainly isn't. The most fundamental principles involved are electrostatics (materials sticking together due to static electricity) and photoconductivity (light causing current to flow).

Most of us probably use copiers on a pretty regular basis, but how many of us actually know how they work? Turns out the science is fairly simple, but the engineering certainly isn't. The most fundamental principles involved are electrostatics (materials sticking together due to static electricity) and photoconductivity (light causing current to flow).

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