Who made the first laser printer? When?

Who made the first laser printer? When?

In 1975, IBM introduced the first laser printer, the model 3800. Later, Siemens come out with the ND 2 and Xerox next to the 9700. These self-contained printing presses were online to a mainframe or offline, accepting print photograph data on cassette or disk.



In 1984, HP introduced the LaserJet, the first desktop laser printer, which rapidly become a huge success and a chief part of the company's business. Desktop lasers made the clackety daisy helm printers obsolete, but not dot matrix printers, which are still widely used for label and multipart forms.
The original laser printer call EARS was developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center foundation in 1969 and completed contained by November, 1971. Xerox Engineer, Gary Starkweather adapted Xerox copier technology adding a laser rafter to it to come up with the laser printer. According to Xerox, "The Xerox 9700 Electronic Printing System, the first xerographic laser printer product, be released in 1977. The 9700, a direct descendent from the inspired PARC "EARS" printer which pioneered in laser scan optics, character contemporaries electronics, and page-formatting software, was the first product on the open market to be enabled by PARC research.