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The first computer printer was a printing device constructed to be used with the Univac computer by Remington Rand in 1953.
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The daisy wheel printer was first introduced in 1970. It is a printer where a hammer strikes on characters on "petals" arranged in a circle. Such printers are not longer in great demand due to its slow speed and the annoying noise it produces.
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Centronics Data Computer Corporation produced a dot-matrix, also in 1970
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The LA30, produced by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1970, was the first dot-matrix printer for the computer. This printer could print at the speed of 30 characters per second.
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The original laser printer called EARS was developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center beginning in 1969 and completed in November, 1971.
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The IBM 3800 was the first laser printer. It was introduced in 1975. However, the technology for the laser printer began with a man by the name of Chester Carlson.
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In 1976, the inkjet printer was invented, but it took until 1988 for the inkjet to become a home consumer item.
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The Xerox 9700 Electronic Printing System, the first xerographic laser printer product, was released in 1977.
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In 1979, Hewlett-Packard(HP) introduced a new type of printer. It was the laserjet.
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Many features that were developed on the Alto are incorported. It includes a bitmapped screen, WYSIWYG word processor, mouse, laser printer, Smalltalk language, Ethernet, and software for combining text and graphics in the same document.
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Apple Computer releases the Apple LaserWriter laser printer.
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Hewlett-Packard begins shipping the HP LaserJet 5 line of laser printers.
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Solid ink technology utilizes solid ink sticks in lieu of the fluid ink or toner powder usually used in printers. After the ink stick is loaded into the printing device, it is melted and used to produce images on paper.
