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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.
Contributor:
Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
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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