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

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 ...

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 ...