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Monday, September 6, 2021

Basic timeline of Xerox

This post is a basic timeline of Xerox. There are 26 events listed below chronologically.

Haloid Photographic Company is founded (1906)
Physicist Chester Carlson invents image printing process (1938)
Haloid purchases Carlson's image printing process (1946)
Flat-plate 1385 (developed before Xerox 914)
Copyflo microfilm printer (1955)
Renamed to Haloid Xerox (1958)
Xerox 914 photocopier (1959)
Xerox becomes publicly traded (1960)
Renamed to Xerox (1961)
Xerox 913 paper copier (1963)
Long distance xerography system (1964)
Xerox 2400 (1966)
Xerox 3600 (after Xerox 2400)
Laser printing is invented by Gary Starkweather at Xerox (1969)
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) (1970)
Xerox 6500 color copier (1971)
Xerox 1200 non-impact printer (1973)
Xerox Alto minicomputer (1973)
Xerox 9700 laser printer (1977)
Steve Jobs sees the WIMP system (1979)
Xerox 5700 laser printer (1980)
Xerox Star computer (1981)
Memorywriter electronic typewriter (1981)
Xerox Daybreak (1985)
DocuTech print technology (1990)
Fujifilm acquires 50.1% equity stake in Xerox (2018)

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