Xerox Copiers for the Home or Office

Xerox Copiers

By Anne Ahira

Xerox is currently one of the world leaders in both color and digital copiers. In fact, the company’s name is a often used as a verb that means to make a copy or a facsimile.

But the road to success for Xerox has been a long and bumpy one. In this article we are going to discuss Xerox copiers and how and why they have regained their rightful place at the top of the heap.

The story of Xerox began way back in 1906 when a company called Haloid that produced photographic equipment was established. The actual business was founded in Rochester, New York, where it continued for many year.

The company produced quality paper for several decades and did quite well. Then in 1935, they acquired a tiny photocopying machine manufacture called Rectigraph Company. And the rest, as they say, is history.

But let us talk a bit more about history. The word Xerox was actually coined by the inventor of the process, Chester Carlson. Carlson was a young patent lawyer when he developed a way to transfer images from one sheet of paper to another using simple static electricity.

He called the method xerography, from the Greek words for “dry” and “writing.” A few years later he signed an agreement with the company Haloid, the company that would become Xerox, and photocopying instantly became the company’s metier.

The first Xerox copiers were introduced in 1949 to mixed reviews. While the process was nothing short of mind-blowing, the execution left a lot to be desired. It was messy and manual and it made many errors.

According to most industry insiders, Xerox had jumped the gun and had released a product that was so fraught with flaws that it was more trouble than it was worth.

But as you probably know, based on the fact that they are still around, Xerox engineers did not throw in the proverbial towel. In fact, they found several profitable uses for the machine that many had given up on.

For instance, they discovered that the first Xerox copiers could be used for offset printing, which was extremely popular at that time.

Finally, in 1960, Xerox Copiers became a household name with the release of the Xerox 914. The model was billed as the world’s first (and only) instant copier. And while it weighed an incredible 650-pound and had a price tag in the thousands, initial demand for the cumbersome copier exceeded all of the company’s wildest expectations.

Fortunately, Xerox had properly prepared for this providential scenario when they officially changed their name from Haloid to Xerox two years earlier, in 1958. They had invested nearly everything in xerography, and the gamble paid off.

By the mid nineteen-sixties, Xerox was one of the most profitable companies in the world. Their copiers were purchased by nearly every large business on the planet and by the end of the decade the company that had been founded for thousands was earning billions.

In the coming years, Xerox would sink obscene amounts of money into developing new Xerox copiers for both business and personal use. In fact, the company was the very first to focus on the previously ignored home market.

And while the home market was never particularly profitable, it did help Xerox develop a new generation of smaller, lighter and more portable copiers.

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