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Print unchained : fifty years of digital printing, 1950-2000 and beyond : a saga of invention and enterprise / Edward Webster.
Van Pelt Library TK7887.7 .W43 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webster, Edward.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Digital printing--History.
- Digital printing.
- Computer printers--History.
- Computer printers.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 253 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 30 cm
- Other Title:
- Fifty years of digital printing, 1950-2000
- Saga of invention and enterprise
- Place of Publication:
- West Dover, VT : DRA of Vermont, 2000.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Roots 1
- Foundation Technologies, Electrophotography and the Long, Lonely Road of Chester Carlson
- Chapter 2 Overture 17
- The Technologies 17
- How Far Have We Come? 65
- Speed, Specsmanship, and Money, plus a "Then and Now" Gallery
- The Industry 73
- The Numbers Game, WW Growth
- Industry Structure
- Industry Maturity, Global Shift
- Intermission: Records 90
- Part 2 The Decades
- Chapter 3 The Fifties 95
- The Setting
- Defining Company
- IBM
- Non-Impact Printing
- Chapter 4 The Sixties 107
- General Electric Breaks New Ground
- Non-Impact Printers
- Dataproducts Oral History: Irwin Tomash
- Chapter 5 The Seventies 129
- Centronics
- Oral History: Robert Howard
- Printronx
- Oral History: Robert Kleist
- Non-Impact Emerges at the High End
- Xerox, IBM and Siemens/Oce
- Other Non-Impact Printing Developments
- The Decade of the Daisywheel
- Globalization and the Okidata Story
- Chapter 6 The Eighties 159
- PDLs, Adobe, and John Warnock
- Hewlett-Packard
- Oral History: Dick Hackborn
- Oral History: Jim Hall on the Canon courtship and the birth of the LaserJet
- Other Non-Impact Developments
- Matrix Printing: Change or Die
- Chapter 7 The Nineties 183
- Xerox Corporation Grapples with Change, Fields a Winner
- Oral History: Chip Holt, "Father" of the DocuTech
- Production Printing and Digital Presses
- Printers to the People
- Industrial Design
- Applications
- An Applications Gallery
- Chapter 8 Conclusions, the Next Decade, and Beyond 215
- What it Takes to Win (or at Least Not Lose)
- The Next Decade and Beyond: A Virtual Forum
- Reality, Supply, Demand.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-245) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0970261705
- OCLC:
- 46611664
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