Before releasing the 914, Xerox tested the market by
introducing a developed version of the prototype hand-operated equipment known
as the Flat-plate 1385. The 1385 was not actually a viable copier because of
its speed of operation.
As a consequence, it
was sold as a platemaker to the offset lithography market, perhaps most notably
as a platemaker for the Addressograph-Multigraph Multilith 1250 and related
sheet-fed offset printing presses.
It was little more than a high quality, commercially
available plate camera mounted as a horizontal rostrum camera, complete with
photo-flood lighting and timer. The glass film/plate had been replaced with a
selenium-coated aluminum plate. Clever electrics turned this into a quick
developing and reusable substitute for film.
A skilled user could produce fast, paper and metal printing
plates of a higher quality than almost any other method. Having started as a
supplier to the offset lithography duplicating industry, Xerox now set its
sights on capturing some of offset's market share.
The 1385 was followed by the first automatic xerographic
printer, the Copyflo, in 1955. The Copyflo was a large microfilm printer which
could produce positive prints on roll paper from any type of microfilm
negative. Following the Copyflo, the process was scaled down to produce the
1824 microfilm printer.
At about half the
size and weight, this still sizable machine printed onto hand-fed, cut-sheet
paper which was pulled through the process by one of two gripper bars. A
scaled-down version of this gripper feed system was to become the basis for the
813 desktop copier.
About us :-
Xerox was founded in 1906 in Rochester as The Haloid Photographic Company, which
originally manufactured photographic paper and equipment.In 1938 Chester
Carlson, a physicist working independently, invented a process for printing
images using an electrically charged drum and dry powder "toner."
Joseph C. Wilson, credited as the "founder of
Xerox," took over Haloid from his father. He saw the promise of Carlson's
invention and, in 1946, signed an agreement to develop it as a commercial
product. Wilson remained as President/CEO of Xerox until 1967 and served as
Chairman until his death in 1971.
Looking for a term to differentiate its new system, Haloid
coined the term Xerography from two Greek roots meaning "dry
writing". Haloid subsequently changed its name to Haloid Xerox in 1958 and
then Xerox Corporation in 1961.
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