FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -1979: Canon, a Japanese photography and optics firm, created the Canon LBP-10, a low-cost desktop laser printer, in response to the commercial success of the Xerox 9700. Canon then began developing the Canon CX print engine, which resulted in the LBP-CX printer.

Detailed explanation-2: -Specifically, Gary Starkweather invented the laser printer in 1969 at the Xerox research lab in Webster, New York. Soon after, he transferred to Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and developed a prototype for the Xerox 9700: our company’s first laser printer, which came to market in 1978.

Detailed explanation-3: -The HP LaserJet was the first desktop laser printer, introduced in 1984 at about $3, 500. Nothing like it existed previously, and it created a totally new printer market-similar to what the HP-35 handheld calculator had done 12 years earlier.

Detailed explanation-4: -Canon has a broad range of printers suitable for small business. Their small business range includes both laser and inkjet printers. While the two types of printers use completely different technology, they have overlapping capabilities.

Detailed explanation-5: -Invented at Xerox PARC in the 1970s, laser printers were introduced for the office and then home markets in subsequent years by IBM, Canon, Xerox, Apple, Hewlett-Packard and many others.