Next year, expanding its judo offensive, Xerox plans to introduce a full line of fax machines, ink jet printers and laser printers.
The division sells things like inkjet printers, laser printers and large-format printers.
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Under the David Packard approach, new product lines split off into autonomous units, and scores of disparate operations populated the four main businesses--ink-jet printers, laser printers, servers and PCs.
Public educators can use 3D printers or laser cutters to make inexpensive copies out of plastic or cardboard at extremely low cost.
Xerox isn't the only player selling supplies for HP laser printers, but it has better name recognition than Lexmark or Laser Quest Services.
So whenever possible, manufacturers prefer to put ASICs in their laser printers or cellular telephones.
Apple and Microsoft made hay with graphics, Canon with laser printers, Adobe with typography languages and 3Com with communications.
Laser printers, computers, carpets and paints all contribute to the noxious indoor mix.
Should Xerox have put out a special order of laser printers for Lawrence Livermore, based on the old 7000 copier?
But liquid-crystal screens provide a resolution that is less clear than even the cheapest laser printers, let alone offset printing presses.
Hackborn led the charge into laser printers, where HP had no experience and was competing with Japanese consumer companies such as Canon.
Last fall Xerox also introduced faster laser printers to compete with HP's.
The figure is now about 60%, and costs have dropped the result of efforts to develop better laser printers, CD burners and even hair-removal devices.
Back in the mid-1980s, I spent every spare dollar on the latest Macs, the best laser printers, Adobe type fonts and page layout software.
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Sales of color-laser printers and multi-function devices that copy, print, scan and fax, have provided growth spurts, even as traditional black-and-white printing and copying shrinks.
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In September it introduced Xerox-branded toner cartridges for HP laser printers.
Canon may be most familiar as a camera company, but 50% of its third quarter revenue came from office products such as laser printers and multi-function devices.
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Foreign chips flooding the U.S. market provided gobs of cheap memory for PC graphics boards and laser printers--and, boy, did those two technologies ever chew up the memory!
This advance in the realm of medicine comes, oddly enough, from the digital world of fiber optics and laser printers, courtesy of engineers and scientists at Xerox Corp.
Fax machines and laser printers have sharply boosted paper sales.
It certainly does not want orders for several thousand copies at a time, because its laser printers are cheaper than printing presses only on production runs of fewer than 1, 500 copies.
As laser printers push inkjet printers out, HP (the inkjet supplies market leader) will likely see a decline in its ink cartridge per printer sales until the shift away from inkjet stabilizes.
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Sadly for Xerox, other more nimble companies brought these great ideas to market--the Apple Macintosh, Adobe type fonts, Canon laser printers and 3Com-style local area networks, all of which would appear in the 1980s.
"All the optics that are applicable to laser printers, you could use to scan the surface of something, " says Bruce, who works on FAST with five people from PARC and three people from Scripps.
Xerox claims that its printers, which can crank out 80 pages a minute, can target specific areas of a page for color printing using a material that is cheaper than what is used in standard laser printers.
The projects on Brit.co are fairly simple and meant to be completed quickly, but many incorporate cool gadgetry such as 3D and laser printers, or wired elements such as Arduino kits, which are do-it-yourself computing and circuitry kits.
Earlier this week, HP got a little boost from a Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) analyst who in a report said that HP's latest monochrome laser printers were priced less than Lexmark's, a fact that it says will help HP maintain its dominant market share in that segment.
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