Computer printers started history in 1938 with Chester Carlson of Seattle inventor (1906-1968) inventing

electrophotographing, which was widely known as Xerox, the basic technology for decades to come with
laser printers.

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In 1953, Remington-Rand produced the first high-speed printer for Univac. The initial laser printer,
called EARS, was created from 1969 and completed in November 1971 at the Xerox Palo Alto Research
Centre. Gary Starkweather (born in 1938) of Xerox adopted the copy technology of Carlson's Xerox and
added a laser beam to the laser printer.

The Xerox Corporation states that "The first Xerox laser printing system to be introduced in 1977 was
the Xerox 9700 Electronic Printing System. The 9700, the first device on the market to become possible
from PARC testing, was a direct descendant from the original PARC printer 'EARS' and was a pioneer in
laser scanning optics, feature generation electronics and page formatting."

Printers for computing

"In 1976 in the F. W. W. Woolworth North American Data Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the very first
IBM 3800 was placed in the Central Billing Office," according to IBM. The first high-speed laser printer in
the industry was the IBM 3800 Printing System. It was a laser printer with over 100 impressions per
minute of use. It was the first printing company to incorporate electrical and laser technologies.

In 1976 the inkjet printer was invented, but up to 1988, when Hewlett-Packard released the DeskJet
inkjet printer, which had a price of up to $1000. It took the inkjet to become a house market product.
The famous LaserJet 4, first 600 to 600 points per inch laser printer, was launched in 1992 by Hewlett-
Packard.

The Print History

Printing is much older than the phone, of course. The "diamond sutra," which was written in China in
868 CE, is the earliest known printed text. But book printing is accused of occuring well before this date.

The number of editions made and almost entirely decorated, used for images and designs, for printing
before Johannes Gutenberg (ca. 1400–1468) was reduced. The paper material was sculpted in wood,
steel and brass, rolls in ink or paint and transferred to parchment or vellum under pressure. Hand-
copied books were mostly copied by religious orders.
He is best known for Gutenberg Press, the revolutionary press that used movable type. Gutenberg was a
German manufacturer and inventor. Until the 20th century, it remained standard. Printing made
inexpensive by Gutenberg.

Forms and linotypes

The invention of the linospecies which composed the system in 1886 by Ottmar Mergenthaler, born in
German, (1854–1899), is regarded as Gutenberg's greatest progress in printing since the creation of the
mobile type 400 years before, enabling people to easily define and break down a complete text line at
once.

In 1907, the printing method for using silk cloth was granted by Samuel Simon of Manchester England. A
long tradition began with the early practice of stenciling used by Egyptians and Greeks as early as 2500
B.C. The use of fabrics other than silk for screen printing.

Walter W. Morey from East Orange, New Jersey, developed the concept of a TV setter for telegraph
setting using coded paper tape. He showed his invention in 1928, with a funding and production support
from Frank E. Gannett (1876–1957) in the journals of Gannett.

In 1925, Massachusetts inventor R. J. Smothers invented the oldest phototyping computer. The first
practical picture type-setter was created in the early 1940s by Louis Marius Moyroud (1914-2010) and
Rene Alphonse Higonnet (1902-1983). A strobe light and a system of optics were used for projection of
characters from a rotating disk on photographic paper.