How often do you see a Xerox brand laser? We had one where I worked in the early 90’s. It had an unusual straight through path, and it often burned the paper and created smoked during its frequent jams.
That said the Xerox 9700 big boy laser ( 2 pages/sec in the early 80s) was phenomenal.
Xerox is a case study on how to Fritter away your brand. In addition to Laser Printers, they helped invent object-oriented programming, local area networking, and graphical user interfaces. Today they don’t really make money on any of those things.
First ones I saw were line printer replacements.
Turns out it didn’t burn the letters on the paper.
“That said the Xerox 9700 big boy laser ( 2 pages/sec in the early 80s) was phenomenal.”
I work on equipment with this man’s technology every day.
...and yes the 9700 was a beast in it’s day.
We’ve got two Xerox laser printers: a Work Centre b/w office printer and a C9000 color printer.
They’re both great machines!