Apple announced the LaserWriter on January 23, 1985, and began shipping it on March 1, 1985. This was the same time Aldus PageMaker was introduced, a combination that led to the birth of desktop ...

Apple launched the LaserWriter 40 years ago today, forming a cornerstone of what became known as the desktop publishing ...

Solid ink printers propel a waxlike ink onto the drum. In 1975, IBM introduced the first laser printer, the model 3800. Later, Siemens came out with the ND 2 and Xerox with the 9700. These self ...

Apple’s earlier printer, the ImageWriter was a dot-matrix printer with limited speed and resolution. Adding the option of a laser printer ... system like this was first imagined by Xerox ...