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9780970261700

Print Unchained : Fifty Years of Digital Printing, 1950-2000 and Beyond, A Saga of Invention and Enterprise

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  • ISBN13:

    9780970261700

  • ISBN10:

    0970261705

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-01-01
  • Publisher: Dra of Vermont Inc
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $125.00

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. viii
Forewordp. ix
Introductionp. xi
Prelude
Rootsp. 1
Foundation Technologies, Electrophotography and the Long, Lonely Road of Chester Carlson
Overturep. 17
The Technologiesp. 17
How Far Have We Come?p. 65
Speed, Specsmanship, and Money, plus a "Then and Now" Gallery
The Industryp. 73
The Numbers Game, WW Growth
Industry Structure
Industry Maturity, Global Shift
Intermission: Recordsp. 90
The Decades
The Fiftiesp. 95
The Setting
Defining Company--IBM
Non-Impact Printing
The Sixtiesp. 107
The Setting
General Electric Breaks New Ground
Non-Impact Printers
Defining Company--Dataproducts Oral History: Irwin Tomash
The Seventiesp. 129
The Setting
Defining Company--Centronics
Oral History: Robert Howard
Defining Company--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
The Eightiesp. 159
The Setting
PDLs, Adobe, and John Warnock
Defining Company--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
The Ninetiesp. 183
The Setting
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
Coda
Conclusions, the Next Decade, and Beyondp. 215
What it Takes to Win (or at Least Not Lose)
The Next Decade and Beyond: A Virtual Forum
Reality, Supply, Demand
Glossaryp. 235
Bibliographyp. 241
Indexp. 247
Publisher/Contributor Informationp. 253
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