Laser printer
Impresora láser
- Date
- 1971 · confidence high
- Place
- Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, California, United States
- Credited to
- Gary Starkweather (Xerox); commercial Xerox 9700 in 1977; HP LaserJet and Apple LaserWriter in 1984-1985
- People
- 👤 gary starkweatherç1938–2019
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A printer that draws the page with a laser onto a xerographic drum, with typographic quality and speed. It turned any office into a print shop.
What it led to
- Desktop publishing and the death of traditional typesetting
- The paperless office that produced more paper than ever
- PostScript and Adobe