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Name Products Status References Tally: serial matrix, line matrix, laser merged into TallyGenicom TallyGenicom: serial matrix, line matrix, laser, thermal, mobile U.S. assets purchased by Printronix European assets purchased by Dascom TEC Tektronix: Phaser brand solid ink color, dye-sublimation printers printer business acquired by Xerox Teletype
A photocopier (also called copier or copy machine, and formerly Xerox machine, the generic trademark) is a machine that makes copies of documents and other visual images onto paper or plastic film quickly and cheaply.
Xerox was founded in 1906 in Rochester, New York, as the Haloid Photographic Company. [11] It manufactured photographic paper and equipment. In 1938, Chester Carlson, a physicist working independently, invented a process for printing images using an electrically charged photoconductor-coated metal plate [12] and dry powder "toner".
It was claimed that a roller copier could make a half dozen copies of a typewritten letter if the letter was run through the copier several times. It could make a dozen copies if the letter was written with a pen and good copying ink. The Process Letter Machine Co. of Muncie, Indiana, offered the New Rotary Copying Press, a loose-leaf copier ...
Originally a brand name owned by Lenzing, an austrian based company, for a viscose-type fiber fabricated via the NMMO process. In the meantime Lyocell is a generic name used by various manufacturers. Mimeograph Originally trademarked by Albert Dick. [25] A low-cost printing press that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. Quonset
An improved version, Camera #1, was introduced in 1950. Haloid was renamed Haloid Xerox in 1958, and, after the instant success of the 914, when the name Xerox soon became synonymous with "copy", would become the Xerox Corporation. In 1963, Xerox introduced the first desktop copier to make copies on plain paper, the 813. [9]
Some of the most popular brands we use today have founders behind them who not only gave their blood, sweat, and tears, but also their names. For instance, Johnnie Walker was a real person. He ...
IBM Copier I. On April 21, 1970, IBM announced their first copier simply called the IBM Copier. Its IBM Machine type/Model is 6800–001. When the IBM Copier II was released, IBM renamed the IBM Copier to the IBM Copier I. [21] In terms of competition, while the Copier I was faster than the Xerox 914 (which ran at 7 copies per minute) [22] it was reported as competing with the desktop Xerox ...