Laser printing traces its history to efforts by Gary Starkweather at Xerox in 1969, which resulted in a commercial system called the Xerox 9700. IBM followed this with the IBM 3800 system in 1976. Both machines were large, room-filling devices handling the combined output of many users.Benji Edwards: Apple's Five Most Important Printers. macworld.com, December 10, 2009. During the mid-1970s, Canon started working on similar machines, and partnered with Hewlett-Packard to produce 1980's HP 2680, which filled only part of a room.Jim Hall, "HP LaserJet – The Early History" Other copier companies also started development of similar systems.
Laser printing traces its history to efforts by Gary Starkweather at Xerox in 1969 which resulted in a commercial system called the Xerox 9700. IBM followed this with the IBM 3800 system in 1976. Both machines were large, room-filling devices handling the combined output of many users.Benji Edwards: Apple's Five Most Important Printers. macworld.com, December 10, 2009. During the mid-1970s, Canon started working on similar machines and partnered with Hewlett-Packard to produce 1980's HP 2680, which filled only part of a roomJim Hall, "HP LaserJet – The Early History" Other copier companies also started development of similar systems.