A Very Brief History of the Xerox Copy Machines

During nineteen o' six, Xerox made its way into existence. Within that particular time, it was known as "The Haloid Company" and it was extremely popular for manufacturing photographic paper and all of the other related equipment. However, it was in nineteen fifty nine that the company become well known for the introduction of the very first copy machines that used plain paper.

Xerography was the technology that was used and it is also referred to as electrophotography which was developed by a man known as Chester Carlson and was known as the Xerox 914. The overall popularity of the Xerox 914 increased by bounds and leaps and then by the end of nineteen sixty one, the amount of revenue that was made by Xerox was increased to sixty million.

Within all of the following years, there was a humungous increase in revenue and nearing the end of nineteen sixty five, the Xerox company was five hundred million dollars richer. Throughout the nineteen sixties, the company steadily expanded at a very fast pace. All of the investors that served for the company even within its rough phase of having slow development and research turned into millionaires.

During the year nineteen sixty, there was a xerography research insitutute that cam into existence which was known as the Wilson Center for Technology and Research within Webster which is located in New York. Within the next year, the company took the notion to change its name to the Xerox Corporation.

During nineteen sixty three, Xerox was able to announce its very first batch of plain paper Xerox copy machines for the desktop. In nineteen seventy three, only ten years later, the color Xerox copy machine was introduced. In nineteen seventy one, a researcher by the name of Gary Starkweather tried to modify the Xerox copy machine which then resulted in the very first laser printer being introduced in nineteen seventy seven.

During the nineteen eighties and the nineteen nineties, Xerox was revived with much better quality within design and a product line that was much enhanced. It was within the nineteen eighties that Apple considered buying a Xerox copy machine. However, they weren't able to make a deal. Apple also copied the idea of GUI of the Xerox for all of its own PCs.

The case that Xerox had was dismissed because it has had passed a limitation set by a three year statute and it was too late in order to file the suit. The nineteen nineties saw a totally new look to its line of products. Scanners and high quality printers and copy machines are what made Xerox a leader within the market.

During two thousand, Xerox bought out Tektronix color printing and an imaging division for nine hundred and twenty five million dollars.