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PRINT UNCHAINED FIFTY YEARS OF DIGITAL PRINTING A Saga of Invention and Enterprise 1 9 5 0 - 2 0 0 0  a n d  b e y o n d Print Unchained is a visually rich celebration of the contribution of digital printing to commerce and the human experience. This unique history tells the story with authority, readability, and refreshing flashes of insight and humor. Industry leaders tell how (and sometimes why) they did it. Case vignettes show how strategic decisions fit or failed to fit changing technology and market realities. A global overview of the technologies, a glossary and bibliography make this an industry handbook as well as a history. Hardcover, landscape format, 272 pages; over 200 illustrations, charts and tables; fully indexed. ISBN 0-9702617-0-5. Availability: January, 2001 Limited Edition

Acknowledgements.............................................................................................. viii Foreword by Frank Romano, Rochester Institute of Technology................ ix Introduction............................................................................................................ xi PART ONE: PRELUDE Chapter 1: Roots.................................................................................................. 1 Foundation Technologies, Electrophotography and the Long, Lonely Road of Chester Carlson Chapter 2: Overture............................................................................................ 17 The Technologies...................................................................................... 17 How Far Have We Come?....................................................................... 65        Speed, Specsmanship, and Money, plus a        "Then and Now" Gallery The Industry................................................................................................ 73        The Numbers Game, WW Growth        Industry Structure        Industry Maturity, Global Shift Intermission: Records....................................................................................... 90 PART TWO: THE DECADES Chapter 3: The Fifties......................................................................................... 95 The Setting Defining Company-IBM Non-Impact Printing Chapter 4: The Sixties...................................................................................... 107 The Setting General Electric Breaks New Ground Non-Impact Printers Defining Company-Dataproducts        Oral History: Irwin Tomash Chapter 5: The Seventies................................................................................ 129 The Setting Defining Company-Centronics        Oral History: Robert Howard Defining Company-Printronx        Oral History: Robert Kleist Non-Impact Emerges at the High End:        Xerox, IBM and Siemens/Océ Other Non-Impact Printing Developments The Decade of the Daisywheel Globalization and the Okidata Story Chapter 6: The Eighties.................................................................................... 159 The Setting PDLs, Adobe, and John Warnock Defining Company-Hewlett-Packard        Oral History: Dick Hackborn        Oral History: Jim Hall on the Canon               courtship and the birth of the LaserJet Other Non-Impact Developments Matrix Printing: Change or Die Chapter 7: The Nineties................................................................................... 183 The Setting Xerox Corporation Grapples with Change, Fields a Winner        Oral History: Chip Holt, "Father" of the DocuTech Production Printing and Digital Presses Printers to the People Industrial Design Applications An Applications Gallery PART THREE: CODA Chapter 8: Conclusions, the Next Decade, and Beyond.......................... 215 What it Takes to Win (or at Least Not Lose) The Next Decade and Beyond: A Virtual Forum Reality, Supply, Demand Glossary.............................................................................................................. 235 Bibliography....................................................................................................... 241 Index.................................................................................................................... 247 Publisher/Contributor Information................................................................. 253 DRA of Vermont, Inc.   |   226 Handle Rd., W. Dover, VT 05356 Fax: 802-464-6534   |   Voice: 802-464-5845 email: dra.vermont@printunchained.com

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