Comparing styles of Printers
...t printer, priced at a whopping$1000. In 1992, Hewlett-Packard released the popular LaserJet 4, the first 600 by 600dots per inch resolution laser printer. · In 1959, the Xerox 914 copier was introduced into the U.S. market. The 914 changed the course of history for graphic communications and Xerox Corporation. Since then, the predominant technology used in copying machines has been the xerographic process. · In 1978, Xerox introduced the 9700 laser printer*. This was the first laser printer commercially available in the U.S. and in the world. It could output 120 pages per minute. · In 1984, Hewlett Packard marketed the "LaserJet" printer (8 pages per minute). The remarkable feature of this printer was its use of an operator replaceable "all-in-one" toner cartridgeIn 1938, Chester Carlson, a patent attorney and a graduate of Caltech, discovered a dry printing process called electrophotography. Electrophotography later on became the basic technology for laser printing. · In 1949, Haloid Co. located in upstate New York agreed to fund the applied research of electrophotography. The intent was to develop this new technology into a dry copying process. The term "xerography", Greek for "dry writing", was coined. Later the small Haloid Company renamed itself as the Xerox Corporation. · In 1953, Remington-Rand develops the first high-speed printer for use on the Univac computer. In 1976, the inkjet printer was invented, but it takes until 1988for the inkjet to become a home consumer item with Hewlett-Packard’s release of the DeskJet inkjet ...