Xerox

Xerox Corporation is an American company that was founded in 1906, specializing in document related technology and services including photocopiers, printers and office software. Xerox's acquisition of (ACS) added business process and document management to their product range. They had 140,000 employees as of 2013.

Apple and Xerox
Xerox's research center, Xerox PARC, prototyped several revolutionary advances in computing and graphical user interfaces, such as the Xerox Alto, which the company failed to exploit. Prior to the launch of the Apple Lisa and Macintosh, Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs was allowed to bring engineers to the PARC facilities to learn about UI innovations in the Alto system. Larry Tesler, who provided the tour, was among Xerox employees who later joined Apple.

In the 1990s, several of Apple's laser printers were based on jointly-designed printer engines:
 * LaserWriter Select 300 and 310, used the Fuji Xerox P series print engines.
 * LaserWriter Select 360, used the Fuji Xerox P1 print engine.
 * LaserWriter Pro 800, was to have used the Fuji Xerox XP-15 print engine, but was cancelled.
 * LaserWriter Pro 810, used the Fuji Xerox XP-20 print engine.
 * LaserWriter 12/640 PS, used the Fuji Xerox P893 print engine.
 * LaserWriter 8500, used the Fuji Xerox P880 print engine.