Acknowledgements | p. viii |
Foreword | p. ix |
Introduction | p. xi |
Prelude | |
Roots | p. 1 |
Foundation Technologies, Electrophotography and the Long, Lonely Road of Chester Carlson | |
Overture | p. 17 |
The Technologies | p. 17 |
How Far Have We Come? | p. 65 |
Speed, Specsmanship, and Money, plus a "Then and Now" Gallery | |
The Industry | p. 73 |
The Numbers Game, WW Growth | |
Industry Structure | |
Industry Maturity, Global Shift | |
Intermission: Records | p. 90 |
The Decades | |
The Fifties | p. 95 |
The Setting | |
Defining Company--IBM | |
Non-Impact Printing | |
The Sixties | p. 107 |
The Setting | |
General Electric Breaks New Ground | |
Non-Impact Printers | |
Defining Company--Dataproducts Oral History: Irwin Tomash | |
The Seventies | p. 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 Eighties | p. 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 Nineties | p. 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 Beyond | p. 215 |
What it Takes to Win (or at Least Not Lose) | |
The Next Decade and Beyond: A Virtual Forum | |
Reality, Supply, Demand | |
Glossary | p. 235 |
Bibliography | p. 241 |
Index | p. 247 |
Publisher/Contributor Information | p. 253 |
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