File:Birth of the Laser Printer

Description
Collection of the Computer History Museum. This event was recorded on March 25, 1997.

In this lecture physicist Gary Starkweather discusses his work developing the laser printer at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) in the early 1970s. Beginning with a discussion of his time at Bausch + Lomb, Starkweather describes how Xerox's earlier innovations, including the xerographic process, influenced the invention of the laser printer, initially at Xerox's Rochester headquarters, later at PARC. Through a series of slides demonstrating early printing methods used by Xerox prior to the laser printer, followed by the concepts he tackled in developing the printer. Starkweather details his challenges, and the often counter-intuitive methods he used to solve the problems.

Catalog number: 102706167